All Hallows Read Posters 2020

It's been a challenging year and for a time I thought making posters for this year might not be welcomed. But Halloween never dies! Even if your class is your bedroom, please enjoy these posters for All Hallows Read. 

 
This is my tenth year making free posters for anyone to share and use to advertise All Hallows Read. Free! 

I've hosted the full sized files at dropbox. They're also at deviantart, if that's easier to download off of.

I don't put a year on any of the posters, so you can reuse any of the old ones you'd like such as:

2019 - Good Omens, Sharks, Genies, and More

2018 – Ravens, Ribcages, Pirates, and More

2017 - Typewriters, Fairies, Creepy Wallpaper, and Biohazards

2016 - Pumpkin, Skeletons, Haunted Books, and More

2015 - Trees, Haunted Globe, Bats, and More

2014 - Raven, Grave Reflection, and more

2013 - Fairy Witch, Tentacle, and others

2012 - Spiders and Bats and Mummies

2011 - Universal Monsters 

You can download the whole lot for this year from a file here right now if you'd like. I also included all of the past years in the dropbox file so you can add whatever you want whenever you'd like. Time is meaningless!

Now let's get to the new ones!

This year's theme should seem pretty obvious.

Haunted House -  "I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."

 

Chained - "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." 

Party Prince - "Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

 Raven - "To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core"

 

You can download the whole lot for this year from a file here right now if you’d like. I also included all of the past years in the dropbox file so you can add whatever you want whenever you’d like. Time is meaningless! 

Once again, they’re all free, all of ’em. So download the links, print, and decorate to your heart’s content.

 

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All Hallows Read Posters 2018

September is the stepping stone to October and we all know what that means, time to get ready for All Hallows Read. What better way than with a free poster or five?

This is my eighth year making free posters for anyone to share and use to advertise All Hallows Read. Free! 

I've hosted the full sized files at dropbox. They're also at deviantart, if that's easier to download off of.

I don't put a year on any of the posters, so you can reuse any of the old ones you'd like such as:

2017 - Typewriters, Fairies, Creepy Wallpaper, and Biohazards

2016 - Pumpkin, Skeletons, Haunted Books, and More

2015 - Trees, Haunted Globe, Bats, and More

2014 - Raven, Grave Reflection, and more

2013 - Fairy Witch, Tentacle, and others

2012 - Spiders and Bats and Mummies

2011 - Universal Monsters 

You can download the whole lot for this year from a file here right now if you'd like. I also included all of the past years in the dropbox file so you can add whatever you want whenever you'd like. Time is meaningless!

Now let's get to the new ones!

Raven -- When the ravens perch upon the lamppost, it's going to be a spooky night.

Ribs - When you don't have a bag, you have to make due after visiting the library.

Pirates -- The high seas are calling and cursed pirates abound.

Death in Green -- A horrifying visage invites you into his lair. Overlaid with the text from The Tell Tale Heart

Reaper -- The fields need tending on this All Hallows Eve

Once again, they're all free, all of 'em. So download the links, print, and decorate to your heart's content.

Enjoy!

Halloween 2017!

And what should greet us on the typical late October day when the dead are said to walk the earth?

Why snow, of course.

From about noon until 6 it snowed fat, white flakes. No ghost, goblins, or ghouls were spared.

 But I'm sure you're here for pictures of the Skeleton Petting Zoo

 

The newest addition was my dragon.

And a little triceratops skeleton for the zoo.

 Check out the video to see all the display at work:

All Hallows Read Posters 2017

September is the stepping stone to October and we all know what that means, time to get ready for All Hallows Read. What better way than with a free poster or four?

This is my seventh year making free posters for anyone to share and use to advertise All Hallows Read. Free! 

I'm trying something a bit different by hosting the files at dropbox. They're also at deviantart, if that's easier to download off of.

I don't put a year on any of the posters, so you can reuse any of the old ones you'd like such as:

2016 - Pumpkin, Skeletons, Haunted Books, and More

2015 - Trees, Haunted Globe, Bats, and More

2014 - Raven, Grave Reflection, and more

2013 - Fairy Witch, Tentacle, and others

2012 - Spiders and Bats and Mummies

2011 - Universal Monsters 

You can download the whole lot for this year from a file here right now if you'd like. I also included all of the past years in the dropbox file so you can add whatever you want whenever you'd like. Time is meaningless!

Now let's get to the new ones!

Torn - Things are getting stranger around here when an eerie message appears on the tattered wallpaper of an abandoned house.

Slime - Who doesn't love to dig handfuls of gooey slime out of the mysterious meteorite strike? Warning: May discover secretly unknown super powers or grow extra limbs. Alien larva discovered squatting inside of your thoracic cavity are not affiliated with Slime-n-Goo industries. If ingested please consult a mortician.

Firefairies - The firefairies are hard at work in anticipation of the coming solstice. But don't get too close, these fairies sting with a powerful bite that won't stop until your skeleton is burned free of its flesh sack.

Typewriter - Click clack go the keys. Click clack rattle the bones. The writer doesn't hear the echo until it's too late.

Typewriter Gif - If you want to do some digital promotion, I also made a motion poster (gif) of the typewriter.

Once again, they're all free, all of 'em. So download the links, print, and decorate to your heart's content.

Enjoy!

Handmaids Tale Short Story

Back in June I wrote a short story to enter into Wattpad's contest tied in with Hulu and The Handmaids Tale. It was to be something inspired and set in that world but not using any of the characters or plot. Oh, and only 500 words.

I'm sharing because I found out that my story The Flood got chosen as one of the Top 25.

They'll eventually pick 10 out of those to be the real winners (or already have, it's hard to tell), but it's just nice to be nominated.

Free Books

For the past year I've lost my mind and taken to writing a ton of Dragon Age fanfic.

I collected all four books about my Cullen and the Hero of Ferelden into one giant one, which you can download for free at Smashwords.

My Love

The entire series of my Cullen and Lana Amell stories as they travel from Kirkwall to Skyhold and beyond. A what if story if the mage Warden required Cullen's assistance while he was in Kirkwall. After connecting in the deep roads, they begin to rekindle their momentary romance in Skyhold. But with Adamant looming, it's not meant to be.

Romance, humor, pain, loss, and a few happy tears during this colossal epic that crosses all of thedas. From Ferelden to Tevinter and beyond, the story includes many familiar Dragon Age faces from Alistair to Zevran and everyone in the middle.

Contains My Warden, My Templar, My Hope, and My Future in chronological order.

Read the entire epic in one book with a few special pictures. 

Or there's the latest one I just finished up about Alistair falling in love with his bodyguard.

Guarded Love

Alistair's life isn't all bad. He's King, he's got two kids he adores, a wife he's vaguely aware exists, and pants that fit. The only thing missing in that blissful domestic picture is someone to love. But all in all, things were weirdly working out for him.

That all changes when assassins dare to come after him and his children on the little prince's naming day. With a threat brash enough to attack the King in broad daylight, he takes on a personal bodyguard. Picked seemingly at random from the City Watch, Reiss thought she was little more than an average elf trying to make it in thedas. Now it's all on her to keep the King alive against this enigmatic threat and try to ignore the fact she keeps blushing whenever he smiles.

A follow up to my Cullen/Amell saga My Love.

The Cake

It's that time when I pull out my pitiful cake decorating skills all in honor of my husband's birth. I give you his banana birthday cake for 2017.

I decided to not want to try too hard, so I added drops of food dye to the frosting and then proceeded to mash it all around to create a lazy tie-die look.

To the frosting and cake itself I added some rum flavor to make it taste a bit more like banana's foster. But we're mostly here to marinate in my terrible decorating skills over the years. Let 'er rip!

Happy Holidays

Marvel Yule Log

Do you love watching the slow combustion of logs on your television or mobile app for hours at a time? What if it's tied in with your favorite Marvel heroes?

Have I got a deal for you!

To get us out of the bleak midwinter, Marvel + Coke teamed up with the polar bears to bring us the apartments of five of their beloved heroes.

First is Cap's, complete with his old shield plus folded up flag on the mantle and his round shield on the floor. There's even a picture of Peggy Carter on the end table. It'll play the same O Christmas Tree song in old jazzy tunes throughout the hour. I assume that's because Cap adores the song and thinks there's nothing weird about binging on it as he's dancing off screen in the kitchen while handwashing dishes.

Ms. Marvel's comes complete with her New Jersey homestead where the teenager of course left her clothes laying on the couch as well as an Avenger's comic book. You'll hear the apartment life throughout the hour as her parents shuffle around preparing dinner.

Thor's is surprisingly modern with stucco walls instead of stone. He did seem to murder and skin a Coca-Cola polar bear for a rug. Not sure how that helps with the crossbranding. You can see Mjolnir and his cape left on the left side bench as well as a tiny hammer on the mantle. Randomly, green light will flash as I assume Loki comes home for Noremas dinner to make his mom happy.

Iron Man's is all about Tony Stark's favorite character -- himself. With a giant painting over the mantle that's also holding every various helmet of the armor, it's clear who this room belongs to. There's a tiny picture of Pepper up in the corner. The pizza box is left open because, if you notice at 4:52, there's a giant man who looks a bit like Galactus hanging around outside the window. Christmas can wait when there's a world to save.

Saved for last is quite possibly the cutest of them all, the Guardian's of the Galaxy ship. A bit weird, it's not a fireplace but some kind of orange plasma ball. What makes it so adorable? At about 30 seconds in the music kicks in and...well, you have to watch the video to see. Spoilers and all.

You can see it even better in the close up, which Marvel was also nice enough to include for all the heroes.

I know what I'm putting on in the background for my Christmas Eve cooking and present unwrapping this year.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, A Survivable Boxing Day, and general Happy Holidays from me, Cap dancing to O Christmas Tree for the 50th time, Iron Man bashing in Galactus' big big head, Thor falling for Loki's christmas cracker, Ms. Marvel sledding with Lock Jaw, and the most adorable baby dancing tree there is.

Halloween 2016

I have a giant bruise on my knee, my fingers are diced like hot dogs for a pre-schooler, and there's a good chance I started a fire somewhere I forgot about, but halloween is over!

Woo!

Let's celebrate with pictures!

All Hallows Read Posters 2016

September is the stepping stone to October and we all know what that means. Time to get ready for All Hallows Read. What better way than with a free poster or five?

This is my sixth year making free posters for anyone to share and use to advertise All Hallows Read. Free! 

I'm trying something a bit different by hosting the files at dropbox. They're also at deviantart, if that's easier to download off of.

I don't put a year on any of the posters, so you can reuse any of the old ones you'd like such as:

2015 - Trees, Haunted Globe, Bats, and More

2014 - Raven, Grave Reflection, and more

2013 - Fairy Witch, Tentacle, and others

2012 - Spiders and Bats and Mummies

2011 - Universal Hammer Monsters 

You can download the whole lot for this year from a file here right now if you'd like. I also included all of the past years in the dropbox file so you can add whatever you want whenever.

Now let's get to the new ones!

Pumpkin - Nothing says Halloween quite like a carved gourd (unless you've got a turnip around, pedantic)

Bones -You never know what you find when you open a book.

Tombstone -  I wanted this one to feel like those old book covers from the 70's and 80's. Haunted nostalgia.

Graveyard -  A statue reading a book inside a cemetery inside a book. Don't Blink, you might miss the best parts.

Bloody Wall -  Sometimes you just need giant eyeballs, spiders and a touch of gore. It's Halloween, let's get spooky.

Once again, they're all free, all of 'em. So download the links, print, and decorate to your heart's content.

Enjoy!

Refreshing Halloween Props

It's that time of year when I'm haunting through every store to get a taste of their Halloween treats. A few have gone -- Michaels, Menards, Home Depot, Spirit -- but a lot are waiting until Labor Day is dead and in the ground. *twitches thumbs*

While some things I buy as is a few often need a little bit of help so this weekend I took a few props and made them awesomer.

First was a Cyclops skull from Spirit. It's neat that it's ol' cyc with its mammoth skull influence but the fact it's a blowmold and the painting is meh I decided it needed some flesh.

It was a simple case of dipping paper towels in latex then spreading it across the skull.

After the latex dried, I just painted it. First I used a wood stain for the base but that was too light so I mixed in some brown and black acrylic with my sponge to give shadows and depth.

Cyclops looks a lot gooier now.

My other find came from Home Depot. A fun little secret is that it's really easy to get those cheap ass looking tombstones and turn them into something cool. All you need is paint and a sponge.


I found one with a carving I liked, but the paint job was meh sliding into snooze town.

First I added a layer of brown. Brown is vital to giving depth to tombstones. I know, that seems stupid, but trust me. If you want to mimic the look of old stone, brown helps to not only age but give it a heft.

After that, it was various shades of black or grey depending upon if I wanted to lighten or shadow a section.

Instantly better tombstone I managed in about an hour. When I don't have the time to carve one myself (which can take days to a week), I like to get a cheap one and fix it myself. The liberal application of paint can make any store bought tombstone look ten times better.