About This Event
Join horror expert and RAILS Board member Becky Spratford, author of The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror, 3rd Edition [ALA Editions, August 2021] as she helps get you ready for the Halloween rush. In this program, Becky will moderate a panel of authors who are members of the Chicagoland Chapter of the Horror Writers Association [http://www.hwachicago.org]. Panelists will include Cynthia Pelayo, author of "Children of Chicago" and New York Times Bestselling author Daniel Kraus. This engaging panel will talk about why they love and create Horror, share their favorite titles, and help you in your work with readers as you match them with the perfect scary read. Ideas for displays, free programming, a chance to ask Becky or the authors your spookiest questions, and more will be included in this 2-hour CE event.
All registrants will also be entered into a drawing to win a free copy of Becky's brand-new book courtesy of ALA Editions. Don't wait until the hordes of readers begin shambling into your library when the calendar flips over to October; prepare yourself now and have fun along the way.
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Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award, Elgin Award and International Latino Book Award nominated poet and writer. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through and Children of Chicago.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Columbia College, a Master of Science in Marketing from Roosevelt University, a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Doctoral Candidate in Business Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
Cynthia was raised in inner city Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children.
DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Times bestselling author. His posthumous collaboration with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, The Living Dead, was acclaimed by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus has won a Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler) and has been a Library Guild selection, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Bram Stoker finalist, and more.