Allie Leigh

Hope everyone is getting in some good spooky reads this October!

October is A Sorceress and Scones’ book birthday! It’s been out for a year now! Whoah! I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has read this book over the past year. 🙂

If you haven’t, and you want to, you’ll have the chance to, soon! It’ll be part of the upcoming Cozy the Day Away Sale on October 11th and 12th (over two days this time!) and will be available for free! So check that out if you’re interested.

It’s the perfect time to pick it up, too, because A Damsel and a Demon (the prequel, featuring Arycelle!) releases in less than a month! eARC signups are still open if you’re interested! (and you can also get a free copy of A Sorceress and Scones by signing up for that as well!)

November will be spent working on final final edits for A Damsel and a Demon (just making sure there are no lingering typos/formatting issues and things), and then I’m going to actually start seriously plotting book 3! I am interested to see how this will go, because I’ve made myself some notes, but it became very evident very quickly that I need to figure out exactly how everything is going to fit together/in what order. I am thinking there will be lots of loose leaf and shuffling of pages around.

After my misadventures playing through Final Fantasy V, I was inspired to go back and play through Final Fantasy IV and see how it held up to my memory of it. I maintain that it is leaps and bounds better than Final Fantasy V, and I don’t know how they followed up with that hot mess. The plot definitely becomes significantly weaker once the idea of the dark crystals is introduced, since that comes out of left field and it just feels like there are fewer events that actually happen after that point, but everything in the upper world is solid, and the story still makes sense so, you know. That’s a plus.

Maybe eventually my friends will get around to playing VI, but right now everyone I know is obsessed with Silksong. I, on the other hand, am trying to figure out how I’m supposed to balance the fact that the universe has decided to give me the Tactics Remaster and the Tales of Xillia Remaster within a month of each other (as they are both games that I love dearly). There is an almost 0% chance I will be done with Tactics by the time Xillia comes out. RIP me.

I realized the other day that the clothes I was wearing sort of looked like a bumblebee, and that I have a bumblebee headband from my friend’s kid’s birthday party that I attended in the summer. Then I went to the dollar store and they had bumblebee dog costumes. So I decided that we are going to do family bumblebee costumes and I am now far too excited about this idea. But my dog is too cute and she doesn’t seem to totally hate it.

Have a great month!