We reviewed Miss Peregrine when it first came out (see the review here). Comment below and tell me what your favorite scary movie is, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children could be yours!
Teen Read Week Giveaway #2: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
It’s Giveaway Time! Teen Read Week is Here!
Congratulations on joining us for Teen Read Week. This year the theme is “Seek the Unknown”, so what better place is there to be than smack dab in the middle of the horror genre? From cosmic horror to creatures of the night, the horror genre is filled with unknowns.
Today, we’re having a giveaway! David Lubar, best known for his “Weenies” books for children, has crossed over to the dark side of YA fiction after many years of struggle, as he documented here (link). I wrote about this essay a while back (link) and the good folks from Tor Teen contacted me and asked me if I would like for them to provide a copy of his new book for review or set up a giveaway. The answer, of course, was “YES!” They’ve probably been tapping their toes waiting for the review, but that will go up later today, and in the meantime, WE HAVE A GIVEAWAY!
The book is called Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge and it has really amazing cover art and excellent, creepy, interior artwork. And it also has thirteen chilling tales inside the covers. For a teen who’s just growing into the genre and maybe ready to move a little past the Scary Stories books, this is a perfect choice. So let’s give teens the gift of reading horror! All Hallows’ Read is just around the corner.
All this can be yours if you comment and tell me your favorite scary book. People don’t seem to comment here often, and if they did, maybe I’d hold more giveaways. It’s really not that hard, folks. You’re already sitting at the keyboard (or touch screen, whatever) so just do it. Let me give this book away!
Happy Teen Read Week!
A Note on Review Requests
There seems to have been some confusion lately about our process for handling review requests, mainly from self-published authors, so I’m going to take this opportunity to clarify things.
MonsterLibrarian is a volunteer organization. None of us are paid for the work we do to make the site successful. The people who participate do so because they love the horror genre and horror fiction, and they want to share it with others.
Our reviewers contribute their time and energy to review books for us. Like you, they have busy lives, and reviewing for us is just one of many things they do. That they contribute reviews is a gift from them to you, to MonsterLibrarian.com, and to the genre.
We get many more review requests than we have people who can review them. When someone sends a review request to me, I look to see if it contains this essential information:
Title of the book
Author’s name
Description of the book
Yes, people do send review requests that do not include that information. If the request includes that information, I forward that on to our reviewers. Usually I will let the person know when I have done that. If the review request interests or intrigues a reviewer, and they have the time and energy to do so, they tell me they would like to review the book, and I write the author back with that information.
Note those words “interests and intrigues”. The description of the book included in the review request can make a difference. If I send out a request for review describing a book as “a collection of horror short stories”, it’s probably not going to grab anyone. Try to be more specific.
I will also note that a polite and professionally written request is much more likely to snag someone’s interest, although I can’t make any guarantees.
I’d love to see every book get reviewed, but it’s just not possible. We do our best.
Just in case I missed something here, I have a special page just for authors with a Q&A about the site. Here’s a link.
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