2015 Halloween Reading Challenge

Going to do this one when it begins in October, of course :-)  Since it's already up, I'm signing up now.  Go to Reading Every Season to sign up.

I am really excited to announce the 2015 Halloween Reading Challenge! I have been looking forward to this reading challenge ever since I started the blog.

This reading challenge will take place in the month of October. I will be also be hosting a screamathon (horror themed readathon) Oct 17 - 23. An announcement post and sign ups for the #ScreamathonRES will be posted soon.

How the Halloween Reading Challenge Works:

• This is a design it yourself challenge. I want you to choose your own reading goals. This is a low pressure challenge meant to be fun.

• The books can be horror, thriller, supernatural, mystery, or Halloween themed. This means they should be about serial killers, murders, ghosts, demons, witches, monsters, vampires, etc. 

• Vampire books may also count towards my 2015 Reading Bites Challenge at Hippie Book Reviews.

• When you have reviewed a book, you are encouraged to come back to this post and add the link to your review in the comments.

Additional Rules: 

• This challenge runs Oct 1 - Oct 31.

• You may sign up anytime during the challenge. 

• I won't be creating different levels. Read as little or as many books as you want. 

• You may include books of any format including traditional books, ebooks, or audiobooks. 

• Books may be YA, adult, nonfiction, mystery, chick lit, romance, etc. but must be horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, or subjects that have to with Halloween. 

• You may reread books. 

• Books may count towards other reading challenges. 

• Use the hashtag #Halloween2015RES

• If you could be so kind, please place the Halloween Reading Challenge banner on your blog to help spread the word. 

• Please link back to this blog, post about it on Facebook, Tweet about it, and so on to help spread the word.

• You may sign up using your blog, Youtube channel, Goodreads, Twitter, etc. 

Here is what I'll be reading:

1. Nightschool: The Weirn Books Volume 1--Svetlana Chmakova
2. Nightschool: The Weirn Books Volume 2--Svetlana Chmakova
3. The Silver Kiss--Annette Curtis Klause
4. Gossamer Ghost--Laura Childs
5. A Halloween Scare in California--Eric James
6. The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive Part I--L.J. Smith
7. The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II and The Power--L.J. Smith
8. Vampire Beach--Alex Duval
9. Vampire Beach 2--Alex Duval
10. Happy Halloween, Biscuit--Alyssa Satin Capucilli
11. Room on the Broom--Julia Donaldson
12. GoodnIght, Goon: A Petrifying Parody--Michael Rex
13. The Kitchen Witch--Annette Blair
14. Bewitched, Bothered and Biscotti--Bailey Cates
15. Charms and Chocolate Chips--Bailey Cates

Challenge completed on October 24

Planning to Host My First Reading Challenge Next Year

After years of participating in other people's reading challenges, I decided a couple months ago to take a stab at hosting one of my own next year.  I mentioned this in an earlier post in June.

I've thought of doing this since I began doing challenges in 2013.  But no real idea for one hit me until recently.  I knew I did not need to do one based on themes such animals, mysteries, romance, colors, food and such, since plenty of those challenges exist already. And there are already plenty of those consisting of lists or Bingo-like grids with categories such as "your favorite childhood book," "a Pulitzer-prize winning book," or "a book with a number in the title."  I love these challenges and do them all the time, but I wanted to do something different.  I just didn't know what until now.

I'm still keeping the idea under wraps until I get my sign-up post done.  I hope to have it up in either November or December when all the blogs begin posting their challenges for the coming year.  But I will tell you this--whatever your preferred reading genre(s) is/are, you will find something that fits what I have planned.  And I am surprised no one else ever came up with the idea I have planned.  Stay tuned to my blog to see what it will be about.   I will be including the post on A Novel Challenge as well,  once it is done.

Meanwhile, I need some help getting started. I asked this at the end of the blogpost linked in the first paragraph.  I need to know where I can get pictures to but on my blogpost and which link up service is cheapest to use for up to a year.  And how I can modify images without Photoshop.  I've looked on these two sites already for images: Dreamtime Stock Photography and  FreeDigitalPhotos.net.  This will all be something new to me,  that is why I am planning now. (I've actually had the idea since May).  Any help for this will be appreciated.  Please leave a comment below with any help you can give me.  TIA.