Well, Monster Librarian has been in business now for 14 years. My husband Dylan started it up just about three months after our first child was born– he was an ambitious guy, starting a review site with a three-month-old in the house.

We have never been a huge money-maker, and while we are an Amazon affiliate, Amazon has not paid out to us since he died in April of 2014. Since then Monster Librarian has been running on the money that was in our business bank account and contributions from a very few individuals. This year I asked for help with funding for our hosting and mailing fees, and several people came forward to make that happen.

Thank you so much to Colleen Wanglund, Laurel Hightower, Warehouse Cafe, Darryl Brown, Caroline Cooney, and Michele Lee. I hope we will be able to count on the support of our readers and followers this year, as well.

So we are moving onward into another year! It will be interesting to see what that brings. I have a couple of predictions, based on trends I’ve been seeing and recent events: a return to the classics of the genre (and of course, continued critiques); more horror on audio, both as audiobooks and podcasts; and more #ownvoices titles. I also expect to see some debate over defining horror romance, although maybe I’m wrong about that one.

Many thanks to my fantastic reviewers: Lizzy Walker, David Simms, Murray Samuelson, Aaron Fletcher, Benjamin Franz, and Robert D. Yee, and to the hardworking and talented Michele Lee, who not only reviews for Monster Librarian but edits our companion blog on YA horror, Reading Bites.

I’m looking forward to seeing what interesting things come out of the horror genre in 2020, so stick with us and we’ll do that together!