Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween

Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween 🙂

#SweetTales #Caturday

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Take care of your friends as they take care of you is today’s #Caturday lesson from Sweet Tales.  Learn from Chuck who watches over his best friend Lucy as she naps.

Be extra vigilant with your pets on Halloween.  Here are some important safety tips to abide by from the ASPCA.

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A Cabbage Night Memory from Author Katherine Noll

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Halloween, Katherine Noll, Women's Fiction

Memento Mori

In Northern New Jersey, where I grew up, the night before Halloween was Cabbage Night*, a evening where children had implied permission to go out into their neighborhoods, play pranks and have some relatively harmless fun. Adults looked the other way at shaving-cream splattered sidewalks and toilet-paper covered trees, but if you were found smashing eggs onto cars you’d get in big trouble. Yet it still happened anyway. It was a night for taking risks, for escaping the rules and confines of your home, classroom or church. It was a night to be a bit of an outlaw.

This was in the 1970s and 1980s. We could roam the streets unsupervised on Cabbage Night. You could feel the danger and mystery of Halloween in your very bones, young as those bones were, and you could sense another world lurking very close to your own. Most children believe in magic and at Halloween it’s easier than ever to do so. The air is filled with the smell of decaying leaves and that chilly crispness so unique to autumn, along with the wind that whispers of something else, something you’d forgotten and would return to one day, but not quite yet.

Cabbage Night was the time to feel and experience all of that, to be just a little bad because when the bad things came a calling on Halloween, they might pass over you, thinking you were one of their own.

So go ahead and be a little bit bad tonight. It might come in handy tomorrow.

*It’s also called Mischief Night, Devil’s Night and various other names, depending on where you live in the U.S.

Another Fat Fairy Tales Friday – October 30th

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Fat Fairy Tales Friday… where we’ll be sharing some fun quotes from our Favorite Fairy Tale Re-telling, Mirror, Mirror…

Mirror Mirror, Book One of The Fat Fairy Tales… a new take on Snow White — complete with an attempted Mob Hit, a traveling Burlesque Show… and an oh-so-cute Rock Star! 

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Love Fairy Tales? Check Out these Fabulous Places :)

26 Real Places That Look Like They’ve Been Taken Out Of Fairy Tales

If you love fairy tales and have a serious case of wanderlust, this fabulous travel list was made for you…

1. Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany

2. Glowworm Caves, New Zealand

3. Colmar, France

Click here to read the full article at Buzz Feed: 26 Fairy Tale Places 

Messy Anne Mondays – October 26

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Messy Anne meets the monstrosity

Welcome to Messy Anne Mondays… where we’ll be sharing some fun quotes and Messy-isms from our favorite little girl, Messy Anne 🙂

Messy doesn’t mean to be messy… she just can’t help it!

Messy Anne is a dynamic little girl with a big imagination, and although she may make mistakes along the way, she will never make the same mistake twice. The Messy Anne series is about empowering little girls to be themselves and not be afraid to tackle and unravel problems that may come their way.

Click here to read about Messy Anne’s adventures as she tackles the Monstrosity that lives in her bedroom closet!

Author Talk: Reflections from #SweetTales Author, Laurie Hyman

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On why she chose animals as the “stars” of “Sweet Tales: The Adventures of Britt the Kit,” the first in a series of books that focus on real life experiences and explore universal themes…

It may be hard to believe, but when I started writing ‘Sweet Tales’ it was as though the animals themselves gave me the stories.  That happens during the writing process when your characters appear and come alive.  I was lucky that the two main characters in the first book in the ‘Sweet Tales’ series, Jade and Britt, were with me every day.  And now I’m working on the second book, which features Brittany prominently and will introduce Lace, a white cat (they are very special and unique) that were also a part of my life.  It’s been fun to write about them.

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#SweetTales #Caturday

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Take the time to contemplate the world and just be…today’s Sweet Tales #Caturday lesson as the lovely Ashley demonstrates…

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Another Fat Fairy Tales Friday – October 23rd

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Chick Lit, Fairy Tale Re-telling, Katherine Noll, Mirror Mirror, Mirror Mirror by Katherine Noll, The Fat Fairy Tales book series by Katherine Noll, The Fat Fairytales, Women's Fiction, YA, Young Adult

Fat Fairy Tales Friday… where we’ll be sharing some fun quotes from our Favorite Fairy Tale Re-telling, Mirror, Mirror…

Mirror Mirror, Book One of The Fat Fairy Tales… a new take on Snow White — complete with an attempted Mob Hit, a traveling Burlesque Show… and an oh-so-cute Rock Star! 

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Still Time to Enter to Win: Messy Anne Meets the Monstrosity!

We’re Giving Away Five Copies of “Messy Anne Meets The Monstrosity” Enter by October 31 for your Chance to Win!

 

Messy Anne is a little girl who makes messes. She doesn’t mean to, it’s just that she is on to the next big thing before she finishes the current thing...

Don’t forget… You can enter to win one of five copies of “Messy Anne Meets the Monstrosity” now through October 31th at GoodReads.com…

CLICK HERE TO ENTER AT GOODREADS.

Her real name is Melissa Anne, but everyone calls her “Messy”. How she got her name and what she does about it will resonate in every household with a young child. In her first adventure, with the help of her dog Elizabeth, she first meets and does battle with the Monstrosity that lives in her bedroom closet. Parents will have no problem recognizing the beast. 

And, if you can’t wait to win the book, you can buy it here:   Messy Anne Meets The Monstrosity

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