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This is the month when everyone thinks of Goblins, Ghosts, and Ghouls. I myself like the change of season, the pretty colors, and cooler air.
However, I have been known to paint pumpkins and ghosts on my nails and wear spider earrings all month in support of October 31st and Halloween.
Even though I write mysteries and love a good murder mystery, I have a low tolerance for violence and scary things. I don't watch scary movies, I can't read scary books, and when I was small the abominable snowman on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer movie scared me.
I also don't like Criminal Minds or some books where the author gets into the mind of the villain. I have too vivid an imagination and I don't need to be worrying about a creepy character from a show or a book coming into my life. I prefer my Pollyanna attitude. ;)
I enjoy watching the Midsomer Murders a British mystery show even though some of the episodes have spooky or scary themes or costumes. And I recently watched an Agatha Raisin British mystery show that dealt with witches and had a scary theme to it. I only jumped a couple of times, but it never scared me so badly that I had to turn it off or hide.
There are some commercials for horror movies that I have to hide when they come on. I'm just a weenie and it doesn't take much to go bump in the dark and get my writing brain dredging up all kinds of bad scenarios.
When our kids were in their teens we moved into a small mobile home while building a new house. The boy's bedroom and a bathroom were in a recessed area in the hallway. Our oldest son liked to hide there and when I'd go by, he'd make a noise and I'd jump, throw whatever I was carrying, and curse. Once my heart settled, I'd tell him one of these days he was going to give me a heart attack. He'd just laugh and duck into his room or run outside.
I still jump easily at sounds or someone walking quietly up behind me.
But I have always been excited about Halloween. I loved dressing up and dumping the bag of candy on the floor and trading with my brothers. Giving them candy I didn't like for the kind I did. And tossing the candy none of us liked into a bowl for our parents and grandparents.
It's not the same anymore. We took our kids around town trick-or-treating until unstable people started putting things in the candy. Then we took them to the school events on Halloween. And we, as a family, usually pitched in and ran the Haunted House/Trailer. My husband had a "walking floor" trailer. Every other slat in the floor would move back and forth to offload goods. We would make the inside of the trailer like a haunted house, with hallways, spider webs, gooey things to put your hands in, and people popping out of coffins and behind things. It was always a hit.
I have started decorating but will go to my daughter's later today and pick up pumpkins and corn stalks to decorate the entrance.
Here is the info about my latest release that may or may not have a little bit of scary in it:
Double Down
Spotted Pony Casino Mystery
Book 3
A donkey, a three-legged dog, and a war-scarred veteran outwit the killer.
Dela Alvaro is the main suspect in the stabbing death
of a man she stopped from beating his wife to death. The detective she abhors
is ready to toss her in jail and not look for any other suspects. When FBI
Special Agent Quinn Pierce is called in and Tribal Officer Heath Seaver is
forbidden to work the case, Dela decides to find the killer.
Was it the wife, the drug dealer, or the man wanting
to take over the victim’s business? Dela and Heath ask questions and work to
prove her innocence. If she is found guilty not only will she lose her new life
but she’ll never be able to solve the secret of her father.
Universal buy link: https://books2read.com/u/4D6Wa7
Wishing you a wonderful October and a not too scary end of the month festivities!
Paty
Jager is an award-winning author of 50+ murder mystery and western romance
novels which have Western or Native American elements in them along with hints
of humor and engaging characters.
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4 comments:
Oh Paty, I think my son inherited the same gene was your son. He loved to sneak up behind me or jump out from a doorway, etc. My screams and the clatter of whatever I dropped or tossed had him doubled over in laughter.
This is so not my favorite time of year except for the cooling temperatures. We've smoke in the air today so our air quality isn't the best today.
However, I do love Halloween...the little kids dressed up and treat or treating at my door is such fun!
And in some pagan traditions, Halloween or All Hallow's Eve is the beginning of a new year. Lots going on!
Paty, Your new book sounds perfect for curling up in a chair by the fire! The tag line hooked me right in😊
Judith, It may be just all boys like to scare their mothers! LOL I can see where this time of year would feel like the beginning of a new year after people work hard through the summer to grow and harvest crops, then they are put up and they can relax through fall and winter and get ready for the coming of spring.
Thank you anonymous!
Yes, sons are totally like that. Love scaring their moms. My son is almost 50 and he still enjoys that "sport" and my grandson now emulates that "activity." But....also wonderful memories of making costumes and taking the little ones around. Now they are all too old to want grandma to hike around the neighborhood with them.
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