31 Days of Horror: Day 6-- #HorrorForLibraries Giveaway 101 Featuring Wrath by Daniel Kraus and Sharon Moalem

Today I have a major October release by a NYT Bestselling author who writes Horror for every age level, an author who you will hear from again before the month is through. Details on this week's giveaway below, but first, the weekly reminder on how to enter:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. Meaning you enter once, and you are entered until you win. 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.
4. 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 #100. As a reminder, we had 5 winners to celebrate the century mark. Those winners, from all over the country, were: Anna from Oldham County [KY] Public Library, Kelly from Wood County [NC] Public Library, Meagan from High Plains [CO] Library District, and Lois from Chester County [PA] Library.

Now on to this week's giveaway. Daniel Kraus is on a roll. He has books coming out all year long, all Horror, and for every age of reader. [Spoiler alert, I can share that one of his releases in the last year will be on a major Horror best list.] Kraus was one of our original Summer Scares authors in 2019 for his YA classic, Rotters. And way back in the day, Kraus and I were colleagues at Booklist. In fact, here is a post he wrote for 31 Days of Horror about a book that really scared him way back in 2013.

Next week he will release, Wrath, co-written with award winning scientist Sharon Moalem. I first was introduced to this book at ALA Annual in June when Kraus appeared on the LibraryReads panel. You can read my post about the entire panel here, but I have also pulled out the parts about Kraus:

Finally, Daniel Kraus with Wrath coming October 11 from Union Square:

In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence.

Wrath is the story of a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersized intelligence helps him to engineer his escape into the world outside the lab: a world vastly ill-equipped to deal with the menace he represents. Modified through advances that have boosted his awareness of humankind’s cruelty in the name of science, and endowed with a rat’s natural proclivity to procreate regularly, Sammy has the potential to sire a rodent army capable of viciously overwhelming the human race.

Okay this one sounds terrifying and also awesome!

• Sammy is a lab rat with human genes made by a pet company who wants to have a hit product again. He is genetically engineered to be super cute. 
• All of the science here is REAL. His co-author is an award winning scientist.
• Just so it is clear, Kraus told us that according to Moalem, in the scenario they describe, the intelligent Rats would overwhelm and take over the humans in NYC in 5 years. 
• Sammy gets out and knows he will die so he figures, well at least I will procreate. 
• The book is Jurassic Park meets Flowers for Algernon meets Frankenstein.
• We create a monster but don't create a world for it.

You want this ARC. This book is terrifyingly realistic. It will make your skin crawl. The readalikes I list in the bullet points above are for real. 

Also while this is an adult title, it has a lot of YA crossover. Make sure you have this book on order, and if you win this ARC, after you read it, give it away as a prize. Your patrons will thank you. Well, they will thank you after they calm down from the total freak out this book will give them.

This giveaway is courtesy of Union Square who provided the ARC at ALA Annual.