It's October! It's October! The most wonderful month of the year!

[seanan_mcguire]

At last it is October, the month I spend the rest of the year yearning for. When it's October, everything is wonderful, even when it's not. When it's not October, I'm wishing that it were October again. There's a reason that Marnie Piper and the Cromwell witches are some of my favorite Disney (semi) icons.

After a weird two-day heatwave, we've settled into sweet fall, with foggy skies and color-changing leaves and everything. The Maine Coons are growing their winter coats, and thumping around the house like the tiny yeti that they secretly are. (Okay, local definition of "tiny." Thomas has hit the size where even I can't pretend that he's anything but massive. It's just that he still has kitten-face, and I fear what this says about his next growth spurt. He's going to eat me.)

The season's first treat has already been mentioned: Feed is still $1.99, and will be for the next two weeks. Yay! We're currently hovering in the Kindle 600s, which isn't bad for a book that's been out for two years. More treats will be forthcoming, once I know what they are. And of course, at the end of the month, When Will You Rise comes out from Subterranean, and that's sort of the ultimate treat. I cannot wait to see this book with my own eyes!

I'm hosting the SFWA Pacific Northwest Readings for this month, and I'm going to Disneyland with my fairy tale girls immediately afterward, so it's going to be a busy October, and that's just fine. I have a lot of work to do and a lot of experience at doing it, so I'm going to rock it.

Welcome to the month of my heart!

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I saw skeleton lawn flamingos--well, black lawn flamingos with bones printed on them--in the grocery store the other day, and immediately thought of you. Perhaps this is the year I will finally grasp Halloween! It sounds like yours is going to be awesome.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

As lawn decorations go, that's a new one!

[scarybaldguy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like some of the Neil Flamingo meme.

[wednesday]

Oooooh. Were they cute?

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Sadly, they were kinda cheap-looking. Very boring cartoony bones and very cheap construction. If they'd been awesome ones, they would be on my lawn guarding the front porch right now.

[wednesday]

Aw. That coulda been perfect. I keep imagining the Monster High Skeleton CAM parts on a flamingo.

[lysystratae.livejournal.com]

I own 2 kinds - 2 of the black & white, & 2 glow in the dark. They're one of my favorite decorations (the other being my giant spider jack-o-lantern holders) :)