🎃 SPOOKY BOOKS CONTEST – October 2025 🎃

Calling all authors of spine-tingling tales! Enter your spooky, scary, dark, paranormal, or supernatural story in my October Book Highlight Contest.

What You Get: Every entry receives a featured book review on AnnaliseReads.com, giving your work exposure to my community of readers. I will also be creating a brand new category called “Spooky Books Contest” where all of these books will be tagged so readers can easily find them.

The Grand Prize: One winner receives a complete BookTok Marketing Package (over $500 value) including:

• 4 promotional videos on my BookTok (17K+ followers)
• 1 dedicated review video
• 1 winner announcement video
• 1 Author Spotlight feature video

Contest Timeline:

• 📝 Entry Period: October 1-10
• 📱 Reviews Posted: October 11-18
• 🔍 Judging: October 19-30
• 🏆 Winner Announced: October 31st

Entry Details:

• $50 entry fee
• Submit as .docx or PDF
• No word count limit
• All entries will be read and reviewed

Ready to showcase your spooky story? Enter now following these steps:

1. Pay your entry fee. No books/stories will be accepted without a paid entry fee.
2. Send your book file and related information to annaliseclarkauthor @ gmail [dot] com
   • Put “Spooky Books Contest” in the subject line.
   • I will reply to this email to confirm your entry was received.

Books, short stories, poems, and other written content that falls under the horror, paranormal, spooky, creepy, scary, thriller, and related categories. Cross-genre is okay such as psychological thriller, paranormal romance, horror comedies, etc.