{"id":2034,"date":"2012-10-09T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2012-10-09T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:40:40","slug":"all-hallows-read-give-a-book-this-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/all-hallows-read-give-a-book-this-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hallow&#8217;s Read: Give a Book This Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allhallowsread.com\/\">All Hallow&#8217;s Read<\/a> is a &#8220;new&#8221; Halloween tradition established by author Neil Gaiman, who suggested on Twitter a few years ago that we all give someone we love a great scary read on October 31st. After all, why should gifts wait for birthdays or Christmas? I love this idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Button4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2041\" title=\"Button4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Button4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 I&#8217;m not the only one, by far. But in particular, a number of authors have decided that All Hallow&#8217;s \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Read is a great opportunity to not only give the gift of fear to the ones you love, but also to share it with other people who might not be so lucky. Ten authors have banded together for a blog tour&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/fictionfrolic.blogspot.com\/\">Fiction Frolic for All Hallow&#8217;s Read<\/a>&#8212; to encourage people to donate books to the nonprofit literacy organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksforamerica.org\/\">Books for America<\/a>, based in Washington, D.C., between now and October 19. \u00a0Donating books will enter you in a giveaway, but who needs a reason to share their love of reading? \u00a0Here are the details about the giveaway and about donating books, sent to me by the authors participating in the Fiction Frolic. I hope you&#8217;ll decide to donate!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*******************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Help Raise 1,000 books for charity and enter to win $200, signed books and swag!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are excited to share about an ambitious blog tour\u2014Fiction Frolic for All Hallow&#8217;s Read\u2014where ten authors from several genres are working hard to raise 1,000 books in three weeks for Books for America.<\/p>\n<p>From October 1st to 19th, donate a new book (or books!) and earn extra bonus points in a huge giveaway that these authors are hosting.<\/p>\n<p>Two winners will each receive the following PRIZES! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a id=\"rc-5a7de08\" class=\"rafl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/5a7de08\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">a Rafflecopter giveaway<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d12vno17mo87cx.cloudfront.net\/embed\/rafl\/cptr.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>$100 Amazon G.C.<br \/>\n5 signed books from the authors hosting the event<br \/>\nA swag bag<br \/>\nPlus\u2014in honor of All Hallow&#8217;s read, gift a signed copy of one of our books to a friend!<\/p>\n<p>With a total of $200, 12 signed books (including the gifted books) and major swag, what better way is there to raise books for charity and celebrate All Hallow&#8217;s Read?<\/p>\n<p>Each author participating is also donating signed copies of their books to Books for America, an awesome charity that is officially sponsoring their event and excited to be involved with All Hallow&#8217;s Read. In 2011, Books for America donated more than $800,000 worth of books and materials to DC area schools, shelters and dozens of other educational programs and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The authors are blogging throughout the event at The Fiction Frolic Blog.<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/1-5 Read about how books shaped their love for reading and writing.<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/8-12 Read their scariest, funniest or craziest Halloween experiences, or learn about their favorite Halloween themed book or movie, or favorite work of &#8220;dark&#8221; literature.<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/15-19 Enjoy some flash fiction, short stories and novel excerpts.<\/p>\n<p>So donate, share, and look for daily ways to enter to win. Donate to charity for bonus points!.<\/p>\n<p>This event is sponsored by:<br \/>\nEleanor T Beaty, author of the YA paranormal <em>Veiled Mist<\/em><br \/>\nBrewin&#8217; author of the supernatural horror, <em>The Dark Horde<\/em><br \/>\nAndy Gavin, author of the fantasy horror, <em>The Darkening Dream<\/em><br \/>\nLaxmi Hariharan, author of the YA fantasy, <em>The Destiny of Shaitan<\/em><br \/>\nKimberly Kinrade, author of the YA paranormal thriller\/romances, <em>Forbidden Mind<\/em> &amp; <em>Forbidden Fire<\/em><br \/>\nRichard Long, author of the supernatural thriller\/horror, <em>The Book of Paul<\/em><br \/>\nM.C. Mars, author of the mind-bending novel, <em>Burner<\/em><br \/>\nMelissa McPhail, author of epic fantasy <em>Cephrael&#8217;s Hand<\/em><br \/>\nSheryl Steines, author of <em>She Wulf<\/em> &amp; <em>Days of First Sun<\/em><br \/>\nPavarti K Tyler., author of the Lit Fic <em>Shadow on the Wall<\/em> and the erotic horror <em>Consumed by Love<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Hallow&#8217;s Read is a &#8220;new&#8221; Halloween tradition established by author Neil Gaiman, who suggested on Twitter a few years ago that we all give someone we love a great scary read on October 31st. After all, why should gifts wait for birthdays or Christmas? I love this idea. \u00a0 I&#8217;m not the only one,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/all-hallows-read-give-a-book-this-halloween\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[631,5,1282,1281,412,155,83,84,130,186,41],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-all-hallows-read","tag-books","tag-books-for-america","tag-fiction-frolic","tag-giveaway","tag-halloween","tag-horror-fiction","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-reading","tag-scary-books","tag-ya-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}