Summer Scares Programming Guide is Now Live!

 

Click here for the Summer Scares Resource Page
with archive access to past years.

Today, as promised, the Summer Scares 2022 Programming Guide, under the direction of Konrad Stump and the team at the Springfield-Green County [MO] Library District is live.

Click here to access it. 

Or go to the Summer Scares Resource page anytime to see everything we have prepared to help you work these books into your service to leisure readers of all ages.

I cannot stress enough how much this guide has elevated the Summer Scares Reading Program. With an overview of the program and then a page for each of the 9 books, we are able to offer you readalikes, programming suggestions, and book discussion questions for every single book. And it is FREE thanks to the wonderful staff at the Springfield-Green County [MO] Library District.

It is beautiful useful, and free to all at this link.

New for this year: 

• An article by Yaika Sabat, from NoveList, entitled "Connecting Summer Readers to Summer Scares," to kick off our official partnership with the database. There will now be extra Summer Scares content available to those who subscribe to NoveList. 
• Three program ideas [one for a book at each reading level] from our programming partner, Ben Rubin, Head of the Horror Studies Collection at the University of Pittsburgh.
• A back page [below] that promotes the upcoming releases by all 9 of our 2022 authors and all four of  our  spokespeople-- past and present.

Click here to enter the guide

Speaking of all 4 spokespeople, this is year 4 of the Summer Scares Program and year three of the Programming Guide. The past 2 years of programming guides are also a great resource for you to use to promote horror all year long. You can access the Summer Scares Resource page here, which has a link to the archive for past year's or click here to go to that archive page directly. 

No one says you cannot use those previous guides to work with your horror readers, in fact, I encourage you to use all three of them, them all year long. There is some excellent RA content there. Konrad and his colleagues did all the work, so 

Basically we give you no excuse NOT to try Horror titles as part of your Summer Reading strategies-- for all ages of readers.

And trust me, I make my living promoting this genre, you are mistaken if you don't think readers love to feel the fear. 

When you promote Horror with help from Summer Scares, you will have hordes of happy readers. We guarantee it.

Download the 2022 Summer Scares Programing Guide now!