Author Copies! A Guys Read: Terrifying Tales Giveaway
Guess what? My author copies for the anthology, Guys Read: Terrifying Tales, arrived today!
Aren’t they creeptastic?
I had SO MUCH fun writing my story for this collection, and I’m eternally grateful to Jon Scieszka for inviting me to join in the fun. If you like stories by Claire Legrand, R. L. Stine, Dav Pilkey, Rita Williams-Garcia, Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adele Griffin, Daniel José Older, or Adam Gidwitz, you are going to want this dark, creepy, deliciously disturbing book. (I won’t even mention the spine-chilling illustrations inside. SO GOOD.)
And if you want to win your own copy, full of stories that will haunt your dreams for FREE, all you need to do is leave a comment here telling me EXACTLY WHY you need a book full of horrible, awful, sinister stories (for you, your classroom, the kids you babysit, whomever) and I will allow my kids to pick their favorite answer in one week!* Oh, and don’t forget to leave your email address so I can contact the (un?)lucky winner.
I’ll announce the winner on September 6! Be creative. Be menacing. Be terrifying, if you can. Good luck!
*Sorry, y’all, North American addresses only. I have mouths to feed. Mouths full of needle-sharp teeth, hungry for red, raw meat.
08/29/2015 at 7:26 pm
I work in a middle school library and there are several boys (you know the type) that desperately need scared. Ha ha!! But on a more serious note, we are loosing so many boy readers at this age and it would be awesome to try to “recapture” some and this sounds like the perfect book for that!
09/05/2015 at 6:56 pm
Nina, my kids have soft hearts, and you won them over! I’ll email you later to get that address, and the book is yours! Or, your students’, actually. I hope some blood and gore will help keep them turning pages!
08/29/2015 at 8:23 pm
I love your books so much and I would love to haunt my brother because he’s always scaring me and I think it would be lots of fun??????????? and I have to get him back after he jumped out of the bushes and made me cry out of shock!!! Even if I don’t win I will still buy it to terrify my brother
09/05/2015 at 6:57 pm
Delia, that’s hilarious! I hope you get to read it – you can request it at your school or public library of they don’t have it yet!
08/29/2015 at 8:38 pm
I NEED this because I just started at a new school in Texas and need to get in good with the kids!!! What better way than to scare them?
09/05/2015 at 7:21 pm
Erin, I hope your new school knows what a wonder you are!! Knock their socks off!
08/29/2015 at 9:58 pm
Three months ago, a small demon showed up at my house at midnight. He said he wanted to eat my soul. Terrified, I grabbed the closest thing to me– a copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories– and raised it above my head, planning to smack the little devil. But before I could bring the large volume down on the imp’s crown, he said, “What’s that?” So I showed it to him, and he asked to hear a story. I read him “The Cask of Amontillado,” and he loved it. He left, promising to come back and eat my soul the next night. The following night, there he was again, teeth bared, but I held him at bay with “The Raven.” Since then, I’ve read a horror story to this ravenous little demon every night. And every night, he tells me he’ll be back to eat my soul. We’ve made it through Poe, and Irving, and Shirley Jackson, even some Bradbury, and so far each night he’s left satisfied. The problem is… I’m running out of stories. I only have one book left. What will I do when he’s devoured every scary tale in my house and I’ve nothing left to read to him? Please, I NEED your book.
09/05/2015 at 6:58 pm
Carie, you came in second place! I’ll email you with what YOU won… an incredible book that I think would be right up your alley. Creepy and wonderful, an ARC of The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle, by Janet Fox.
09/05/2015 at 8:13 pm
Woo hoo! 🙂
08/29/2015 at 10:43 pm
Hello Nikki! I have been anticipating this book since your visit with us last school year at Stillwater schools!!! The juicy,little scoop of pre-book exposure that you let me in on has been scratching at the back of my brain since February. I have been sharing with our guys at school that you would have an awesome “guy book” hitting the shelves this Fall. The girls also want in on the read as well! You have piqued our interest, and we are all waiting to be scared out of our wits with your newest book!!! Good luck with Terrifying Tales!
09/05/2015 at 7:00 pm
Thanks so much, Cara! I hope your kids love it – make sure they check out Rita Willams Garcia’s short story, which was super creepy and awesome. The stuff of nightmares. 🙂
08/30/2015 at 4:23 pm
Instead of telling stories around a campfire, picture being in a tent in a remote site where things go bump in the night…..now read this book aloud to the grandkids.
09/05/2015 at 7:01 pm
Linda, I think you’re my sort of grandma. Scary stories in a tent far away from civilization? Perfect.
08/31/2015 at 1:01 am
Nikki,
One of our favorite parts of the year is during Halloween
When we gather around on the floor with our 6th graders
And read some horrifying tales. The lights are off, and the
Room is pitched black except for the small light the teacher
Uses to read from a book of dark and scary stories.
It’s great to put on our scary story-telling hats with the
Hope of hearing a student squirm and screech.
We could use an updated book of horrifying tales to tell.
Thanks for all that you do. You are one in a million!!
09/05/2015 at 7:02 pm
Kelly, I LOVE that! In fact, I used to do something similar when I first started teaching. The tricky part was finding a story not TOO scary for the 1st graders. I’ll admit, I may have scared a few of them anyway. Happy Fall!