Kate Spofford, author

Tag: Halloween

  • Halloween Book Tag

    I saw this over on Wildwood Reads and thought it was a cute idea to get me in the Halloween spirit! #1: Favorite Scary Must-Read for Halloween This year the book I was most excited to read was The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. And it was quite creepy! Definitely not what…

  • 31 days of Halloween, day 1: Halloween-themed horror

    31 days of Halloween, day 1: Halloween-themed horror

    A few years ago, I did a daily blog post during October, one for each horror movie I watched. This year I’m back to give you some fun themed lists of horror movies and books to fill your Halloween cravings!

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Days 28-31

    It’s been a busy weekend, and I haven’t had time to post (or watch many horror movies, for that matter…).  But I did do many things to celebrate Halloween so here they are! On Saturday morning I ran in the Costume Dash 5K, which was my only costumed event of this year.  My friend dressed…

  • finally – the halloween costume post!

    Inspiration: steampunk circus inspired by The Night Circus.  I based my look off of this Simplicity pattern: Rather than buying the yards and yards of fabric that would be needed make the overcoat, and then having to actually SEW an overcoat, I decided to use what I had on hand: This was my winter coat from…

  • what i’ve been up to

    Since the end of Camp Nanowrimo – or, let’s face it, midway through Camp Nanowrimo – I haven’t been doing a whole lot of writing.  I did get a good 28,000+ words written on Scavengers, but I got sidetracked when I realized that my map for Scavengers was way off from my map for Hitchhikers.…

  • top 5 news stories

    In writing news… Just got word today that my short story, “His Type of Girl,” was accepted for an anthology called I’ll Never Go Away, to be published in May 2012 by Rainstorm Press! I’ve also been working on a short story for another anthology.  I found this anthology listed on Ralan.com, a great site…