{"id":3111,"date":"2019-11-22T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2019-11-22T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:15:42","slug":"new-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/new-book-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Deal: Halloween Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m very pleased to announce that RDSP will be publishing<\/a> Halloween Season<\/em>, my new fiction collection, in the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n

Some of the stories are fundamentally about Halloween; others are horror or fantasy tales that take place in autumn near the holiday.<\/div>\n
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Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I tried to work in the full spectrum of everything it represents to me in the collection. Some stories focus on family and friends. Others deal with classic Halloween figures: witches and ghosts, zombies and killers. There are plenty of scares, but the focus is on fun, and there’s more humor in this book than my readers have seen for a while. There are stories with young protagonists that are suitable for kids … but there are also a few stories that are strictly for the grownups after the kids have gone to bed.<\/div>\n
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This will be my 4th book with RDSP and my 16th overall; my other RDSP titles are Soft Apocalypses<\/a>, While the Black Stars Burn<\/a><\/em>, and Eldritch Delights<\/em><\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Table of Contents:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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  1. “Beggars\u2019 Night” (poem)<\/li>\n
  2. “Hazelnuts and Yummy Mummies”<\/li>\n
  3. “Cosmic Cola”<\/li>\n
  4. “Visions of the Dream Witch”<\/li>\n
  5. “What Dwells Within”<\/li>\n
  6. “The Porcupine Boy”<\/li>\n
  7. “In the Family”<\/li>\n
  8. “The Kind Detective”<\/li>\n
  9. “A Preference For Silence”<\/li>\n
  10. “Wake Up Naked Monkey You’re Going to Die”<\/li>\n
  11. “The Great V\u00fcD\u00fc Teen Linux Zombie Massacree”<\/li>\n
  12. “The House That Couldn\u2019t Clean Itself”<\/li>\n
  13. “After Hours” (poem)<\/li>\n
  14. “The Toymaker\u2019s Joy”<\/li>\n
  15. “The Tingling Madness”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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