Conditions may apply. You must be 18+ to enter this preorder campaign. US only. Promotion ends 9/19/23. For full Official Rules, see bottom of page.

What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman goes on sale September 12, 2023! Preorder your copy to receive an exclusive, extended excerpt of the novel, a sticker (to be revealed!), and a signed bookplate.

Sticker and signed bookplate available while quantities last.

 

How do I enter?

Send Quirk Books a photo of your What Kind of Mother receipt using the Google form linked below, whether you have preordered the book or requested it from your local library. (Note: please make sure your full name, book title, and the date are visible on your receipt.)

If you have trouble uploading your receipt to the Google form, please send an email to [email protected] with the requested information and include [WHAT KIND OF MOTHER PREORDER] in the subject line.

We will send you the sticker and signed bookplate once the campaign is closed after September 19, 2023.

All receipts must be dated 9/12/23 or earlier and submitted by 11:59pm EST on 9/19/23.

 

 

Enter Preorder Campaign

Send Quirk Books a photo of your receipt using this Google form.

 

About the Book

“What Kind of Mother mixes Southern Gothic, a missing child story, and body horror into an entertaining brew sure to inform your nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market.

It’s there that she connects with old high school flame Henry McCabe, now a reclusive local fisherman whose infant son, Skyler, went missing five years ago. Everyone in town is sure Skyler is dead, but when Madi reads Henry’s palm, she’s haunted by strange and disturbing visions that suggest otherwise. As she follows the thread of these visions, Madi discovers a terrifying nightmare waiting at the center of the labyrinth—and it’s coming for everyone she holds dear.

Combining supernatural horror with domestic suspense into a visceral exploration of parental grief, What Kind of Mother cements Clay McLeod Chapman’s reputation as a “star” (Vulture) and “the twenty-first century’s Richard Matheson” (Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman.)

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OFFICIAL RULES
IMPORTANT: Please read these Official Rules before entering the What Kind of Mother Preorder Campaign (the “Preorder Campaign”), presented by Quirk Books (“Sponsor”). By entering the Preorder Campaign, you agree to the terms of these Official Rules. These Official Rules shall govern in the event of any inconsistency with other Preorder Campaign-related materials.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
ELIGIBILITY: The Preorder Campaign is open to residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. All federal, state, and local regulations apply. LIMIT ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED. Employees of Sponsor, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, and agencies, and their immediate family members and persons living in their household are not eligible to enter the Preorder Campaign.
ENTRY PERIOD: The Preorder Campaign begins at 12:01 PM (ET) on Thursday, August 10, 2023, and ends at 11:59 PM (ET) on Tuesday, September 19, 2023.
HOW TO ENTER: Online entry only. Enter by completing and submitting the entry form as instructed at https://forms.gle/1JuJeGXGjKhxGQVC7. If you have trouble uploading your receipt to the Google form, please send an email to [email protected] with the requested information and include [WHAT KIND OF MOTHER PREORDER] in the subject line.
In the event of a dispute, entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address used for entry. Automated entries are prohibited, and any use of automated devices will result in disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry of information by entrants; lost or late entries or transmissions; interrupted or unavailable network, server, or other connections; scrambled transmissions or other errors or problems of any kind whether mechanical, human, or electronic, technical malfunctions of any computer hardware, software, or any combinations thereof; or problems associated with any virus or any other damage caused to entrants’ systems. Incomplete or illegible entries will be voided. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.
Comments and/or posts including photographs or videos may not include obscene, offensive or inappropriate (in Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion) material or defame any person, or otherwise infringe on any person’s proprietary rights. If you are posting a photograph or video, you must have permission from the photographer/videographer (or be the photographer/videographer yourself) and have permission from any persons who appear in the photo or video before submitting it.
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PRIZE:
Every entrant who proves they have preordered or requested What Kind of Mother from their local library will receive the following:
1. A signed bookplate (quantity: 250)
2. A sticker (quantity: 300)
3. An exclusive, extended excerpt of What Kind of Mother
Actual value of prize may vary. No transfer or cash or other substitution of all or part of a prize is permitted, except by Sponsor, which reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to substitute the prize or prize component with another of comparable or greater value. Any and all taxes on the prize will be the responsibility of the entrants. Sponsor shall not be responsible for any cancellations, delays, postponements, substitutions, changes in services, damage in the delivery of the prize, and/or loss of any prize in connection with delivery of the prize via mail. In the event that there is an insufficient number of eligible entries, Sponsor reserves the right not to award the prizes.
Quirk Books will be checking preorder receipts and will deem entrants as disqualified if requested information is missing from entry. Entrants may also be required to complete, execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release. Noncompliance with these conditions may result in forfeiture of the Prize, and Sponsor reserves the right to select alternate entrants (from other eligible, qualified entries received before the deadline) in such circumstance. If entrant notification of the Prize is returned as undeliverable, Sponsor may, at its discretion, select an alternate entrant.
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To the extent allowed by law, participation in the Preorder Campaign in any way, or acceptance of, or participation in, any prize constitutes each entrant’s consent for, and grant of a non-exclusive, sub-licensable and assignable license to Sponsor to use, publish, post or display entrant’s name, social media handles, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, statements, as submitted in connection with the Preorder Campaign, and prize information, regardless of whether altered, or used alone or with other material, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, for promotional, advertising, and publicity purposes in any medium now known or later discovered, worldwide and in perpetuity, without review or approval, and without further notice, payment, or consideration of any kind. All rights, consents and licenses granted to Sponsor under these Official Rules and/or any Affidavit of Eligibility and Release will survive the termination of this Sweepstakes.
RIGHT TO MODIFY OR CANCEL: Sponsor may cancel, suspend or modify the Preorder Campaign or any part of it, in any way, if Sponsor determines in its sole discretion that the Preorder Campaign is not capable of executing as Sponsor intended, or that any error, omission, fraud, technical failure, tampering, computer virus, or other factor, technical or otherwise, beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control, impairs or may impair Sponsor’s ability to properly conduct the Preorder Campaign, subject to any applicable law or regulation.
In the event of any inconsistency between these Official Rules and any disclosure or other statement contained in any Preorder Campaign-related materials, these Official Rules will govern.
DISPUTES: Any dispute arising from this Preorder Campaign will be determined according to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, without reference to its conflict of law principles, and by entering the entrants consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Pennsylvania County and agree that such courts have exclusive jurisdiction over all such disputes.
WINNERS LIST: For a list of the Winners, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope by January 18, 2024 to Christina Tatulli, Quirk Books, Attn: Quirk, What Kind of Mother Preorder Campaign, 215 Church Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
SPONSOR: Quirk Books, 215 Church Street, Philadelphia PA 19106