This Is [a] Halloween [Mood Board]

Morning darklings,

I hope you have the best Halloween weekend. Whether you go to the best haunted house or get in costume and go to the best party or watch the creepiest movie or dance naked surrounded by trees or enjoy passing out candy or turn your porch light off and watch the news or go out to dinner in sweats or eat candy you bought for trick or treaters or don't think about the holiday at all.

Guess I just want you to have a good weekend.

oh and...

Did I forget to mention that I am writing to you post-social media? I deleted all Meta accounts this morning. No more Facebook, Messenger, old IG accounts connected to my number and email addresses (of which I have many), even that one sneaky Insta I kept so I could log in to look at things. Billionaires have billionaired once again, and much like leaving Substack, I'm making a choice. In 30 days, the option to reactivate won't even be available, and I feel good about that. It'll be just me and all of you here on this website in my cubby of the interwebs. How quaint, right?

So now, more than ever, I'd love you to share the blog and my work in general. I am, in fact, just another creative free floating through cyberspace. It's like 1999 around here.

Beyond that unsurprising news, I just finished another part of my non-fiction book. I wanted to have the entire thing finished by the end of September, and here it is the end of October with one more part to finish. But darklings, this is a heavy one to work on. It should feel much lighter to the reader, but the research alone has been draining. I'm loving it, though!

And thirdly, do you remember that story I wrote with all the Eliases? Of course you do, you have a good memory. Well, it was for a fun little challenge. The person that put on the challenge also compiled the stories into a free forever epub. Check it out if you want more silliness.

Elias Thorne Anthology Launch Party

A recording of the launch, and a free eBook download of the anthology.

They don't all have to be goodIan Patterson and J. Kyle Turner and Wendy Russell

Until next time, harness the Little darknesses and embrace the Little things.

*Cover photo by Andrea Caramello on Unsplash