{"id":5312,"date":"2020-09-27T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T22:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2020-09-27T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T22:41:59","slug":"book-launch-for-halloween-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/book-launch-for-halloween-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch for Halloween Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

My publisher is hosting an online launch party for my book\u00a0Halloween Season<\/em>\u00a0on October 5th at 7pm Eastern. I’ll be giving a presentation on writing post-COVID horror, and cover artist Lynne Hansen will be on hand to answer questions. There will also be an online costume contest, virtual trick-or-treating, and a Q&A session.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to attend, please sign up here to get your free ticket:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/hopin.to\/events\/celebrate-halloween-season<\/a><\/p>\n

Free tickets are required to help make sure that the event is all treats and no tricks from online mischief makers.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Book<\/h1>\n
Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us. For dedicated fans, the season begins when the leaves start turning autumn colors and doesn\u2019t finish until Hallowtide ends in November. With it comes a whole lot of fun: scary movies and stories, haunted houses, seasonal sweets, spooky decorations, costume parties, and of course trick or treat. But Halloween is also a deeply spiritual time for some; it\u2019s an opportunity to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on.<\/div>\n
\n

Master storyteller Lucy A. Snyder has filled her cauldron with everything that Halloween means to her and distilled it into a spell-binding volume of stories. Within these pages you\u2019ll find thrills and chills, hilarity and horrors, the sweet and the naughty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

One of the best things about Halloween is you don\u2019t have to be yourself. So go ahead and try on a new mask or two \u2026 you may discover hidden talents as a witch, a pirate, a space voyager, a zombie fighter, or even an elf. This is the perfect collection to celebrate the season of the dead or to summon those heady autumn vibes whenever you like. You may even find a couple of tales that evoke a certain winter holiday that keeps trying to crowd in on the fun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the worlds within this book, every day is Halloween!<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My publisher is hosting an online launch party for my book\u00a0Halloween Season\u00a0on October 5th at 7pm Eastern. I’ll be giving a presentation on writing post-COVID […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[156],"tags":[181,182,148],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-books","tag-book-launch","tag-event","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Draft2_HalloweenSeason_PaperbackWrap.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qT6f-1nG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3111,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/new-book-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":5312,"position":0},"title":"New Book Deal: Halloween Season","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"November 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very pleased to announce that RDSP will be publishing Halloween Season, my new fiction collection, in the fall of 2020. Some of the stories are fundamentally about Halloween; others are horror or fantasy tales that take place in autumn near the holiday. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "My Books"","block_context":{"text":"My Books","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RDSP2020","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RDSP2019-copy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5071,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/halloween-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":5312,"position":1},"title":"Halloween Season","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"July 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Halloween Season is my 4th book with Raw Dog Screaming Press, and my 10th short story collection overall. I created it for readers who told me that although they enjoy my horror stories, they really hoped I would return to writing humor, too. This collection has both! It gets progressively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "My Books"","block_context":{"text":"My Books","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"trick or treat banner","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8160,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/halloween-beyond\/","url_meta":{"origin":5312,"position":2},"title":"Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"October 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Lisa Morton, Kate Maruyama and I collaborated on a trio of novellas that were just published as Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil from Crystal Lake Publishing as part of their Dark Tide series. When Halloween Beyond stores appear across America, they intertwine the lives of three visitors in a web\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "My Books"","block_context":{"text":"My Books","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Halloween Beyond cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hbeyond.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hbeyond.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hbeyond.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hbeyond.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hbeyond.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hbeyond.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15472,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/halloween-horror-fest\/","url_meta":{"origin":5312,"position":3},"title":"Halloween Horror Fest at The Book Loft","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"October 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Please join me and authors S. Alessandro Martinez, Maxwell I. Gold, Jason A. Wyckoff, and Matt Betts at The Book Loft of German Village on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 6:00pm. The Book Loft is an amazing independent bookstore located at 631 S 3rd St, Columbus, OH 43206. The event\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Writing Advice"","block_context":{"text":"Writing Advice","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/writing-advice\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/halloweenhorrorfest.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/halloweenhorrorfest.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/halloweenhorrorfest.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/halloweenhorrorfest.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/halloweenhorrorfest.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5428,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/southern-nightmares-reading-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":5312,"position":4},"title":"Southern Nightmares Reading Series","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"October 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Southern Nightmares Reading Series is a monthly online event presented by the HWA Atlanta Chapter spotlighting Atlanta Horror Writers Association members and non-chapter members from around the world. The next reading will be this Thursday (October 22, 2020) from 8pm-9pm Eastern. It will be moderated by Alex Hofelich and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "horror"","block_context":{"text":"horror","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/horror\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"HWAheader","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HWAheader.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HWAheader.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HWAheader.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HWAheader.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2254,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/what-october-brings\/","url_meta":{"origin":5312,"position":5},"title":"What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"September 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Celeano Press just released\u00a0What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween. The anthology features fiction by me,\u00a0Storm Constantine, Arinn Dembo, Cody Goodfellow, Nancy Holder, Brian M. Sammons, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, Chet Williamson, and more. Here's the first part of my story, \"Cosmic Cola\": Millie leaned her forehead against\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "horror"","block_context":{"text":"horror","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/horror\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatOctober2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatOctober2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatOctober2.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatOctober2.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5316,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}