It's #HorrorForLibraries Giveaway day, but it is also a special mini-series within the larger giveaway series. For the last few weeks, I have been giving away books by those set to appear at StokerCon Librarians' Day. Today is the final one of these special giveaways and it is a big one! I have one of the best vampire books written this century finally back in print and the buzziest book of the summer.
More details on this week's giveaway below but first...
Here is a refresher on the basic rules to enter:
- You need to be affiliated with an American public library. My rationale behind that is that I will be encouraging you to read these books and share them with patrons. While many of them are advanced reader copies that you cannot add to your collections, if you get the chance to read them, my hope is that you will consider ordering a copy for your library and give away the ARC away as a prize or pass it on to a fellow staff member.
- If you are interested in being included in any giveaway at any time, you must email me at zombiegrl75 [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line "#HorrorForLibraries." In the body of the email all you have to say is that you want to be entered and the name of your library.
- Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. I will randomly draw a winner on Fridays sometime after 5pm central. But only entries received by 5pm each week will be considered for that week. I use Random.org and have a member of my family witness the "draw"based off your number in the Google Sheet.
- If you win, you are ineligible to win again for 4 weeks; you will have to re-enter after that time to be considered [I have a list of who has won, when, and what title]. However, if you do not win, you carry over into the next week. There is NO NEED to reenter.
Click here to see giveaway #43. Our winner was Sarah from the Richland [SC] Library.
Today I have a 2 pack of titles courtesy of Nightfire, Tor's new Horror specific imprint. As part of the Librarians' Day schedule we are featuring a few of their blog writers, including the site editor Emily Hughes. And then on Saturday, I am moderating a panel with some of the authors from the inaugural season of the press: John F.D. Taff, Cassandra Khaw, and the two authors whose books I have to giveaway today, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Catriona Ward.
Second is the 2016 modern vampire classic, a book that NPR named to its best of the year, but a title which had gone out of print, Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia. Not only does this title appear in my new book [Chapter 5: Vampires], but it is also marked as a "Becky's Pick" as one of the top three titles [of 12] in that chapter. Here, for the first time, is the annotation from my new book:
In this bittersweet, issue oriented, and culturally diverse vampire tale, Alt, a descendent of Aztec blood drinkers, is forced into hiding in Mexico City, one of the only places on earth where vampires have been successfully banned. Alt has lived a life of luxury, kept safely away from the human world, but after the Necros, a vicious subspecies of vampires, kills her entire family, Alt is forced to go on the run. She teams up with Domingo, a garbage picker, to help her escape, but Alt is very hungry and the Necros are closing in. Featuring a strong sense of place and an extremely flawed but ultimately sympathetic protagonist, this novel uses a genre lens to take a hard and thought provoking look at our current reality, all without sacrificing a violent, action packed, and crowd pleasing vampire tale.Both ARCs are courtesy of Nightfire and will go to 1 lucky library worker winner. Get your entries in ASAP. I will be announcing the winner live at the conclusion of Librarians' Day at 6:30pm eastern. You need not be at LD to win, but it will still be fun to do the announcement in front of a live audience.
Tor Nightfire is a Gold Sponsor of StokerCon 2021.
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