Halloween Booktacular Day 5!

Welcome back to day 4 of Halloween Booktacular. OUaT has teamed up with Good Choice Reading, Read My Mind, An Avid Reader's Musings, Skyla11377, Books With Bite and Dark Readers. The Halloween Booktacular will run from October 24th until October 31st. Each blog participating will have different post and giveaways going on, so you want to make sure you visit each one of us daily during the celebration.

Today on day 5 of the Halloween Booktacular, Author Jennifer DeLucy wrote a special Halloween post for you all to enjoy. Then Thanks to the wonderful Omnific Publishing we have 1 ebook set of Jennifer's Light Series. So you'll get Seers of Light (book 1) and  Whispers of Light (book 2) from the series. If your not familiar with Jennifer's writing then your in for a real treat.

Halloween was kind of a makeshift event for me, growing up. We didn't have much money, and my grandmother, who I lived with as a kid, wasn't one to really celebrate the holiday, so, I had to improvise costumes for myself, and then, later, for my younger brother and sister, as well.

I adored Halloween, though. It was particularly grand to me, because it was a holiday of pretend. I could be anyone and anything my imagination could muster--and household supplies would allow. And I valued imaginative escapes more than anything.

For several years I went through this phase where I wanted to be was a princess. I would research, scan the school library obsessively for princess books to try and replicate what I saw there, and let me just tell you that pointy cone hats are a lot harder for a six-year-old to make than you'd think. Also, my attempts to replicate a Cinderella-esque hoop skirt by layering a dozen skirts underneath each other only ended in heartache.

In spite of my great love for it, by the age of eleven, I'd, apparently (and when I think about it...quite stupidly) decided that I was too old for all this Halloween business. It was time to move past childish things. *eyeroll* However, I could vicariously live through my younger siblings, since I was the only sort of parental figure interested in giving them a Halloween to begin with.

Enter my brother, John, and the Mummy Fiasco of 1990-something. Before I go on, I will ask that you give me some credit here, because, in theory, my idea was brilliant -- in application, however, you could say it sucked. Let me explain. I'd gotten it into my head that it would be a fabulous idea to use rolls of toilet paper to create a mummy costume, so, I got out the masking tape and TP and I rolled and rolled poor John until the kid looked stiff enough to crack in half.

The rest of the night was a rapid degeneration that involved TP streamers and by Halloween's end, John looked more like a brow-beaten pinata than a mummy. But, ah, the memories.

And you don't honestly think I'd allow my brother and sister to take all the treasure, do you? After all, I worked hard on those horrific home-made costumes. I was going to share in the spoils. Thus would begin the post-trick-or-treating crookery--er--candy trade sessions that somehow ended with my obtaining a good selection of their chocolate earnings after uptrading and (please bear in mind that I had absolutely no candy to begin with).

Impressive, huh?

John or Katie, if you're reading this, I'm sure I owe you some Snicker's Bars.

Happy Halloween, guys!

Love,
Jen DeLucy

Oh Jennifer, that is too funny about your brother. I can't believe you don't have a picture to share with us. If youtube existed back then, you would have had a a hit on your hands.  Thank you Jennifer for sharing with us today your costume story. 

Thank you to Omnific Publishing for once again. You can read a interview with Jennifer on Omnific's website HERE. To learn more about Jennifer and her books, visit her website.