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Haunted Halloween with Susan Dennard and a Giveaway

Costumes
by
Susan Dennard

Halloween is one of those holidays that I loved growing up, and still love as an adult. Pretty much any excuse to get dressed up is okay by me! Also, Halloween holds a special place in my heart because it was at a Halloween party that I met my husband… I was dressed as Link from the Legend of Zelda, and my hubby was dressed as an American tourist. I looked pretty awesome.; ) And obviously, he looked pretty good since I instantly went over and started chatting him up.

By Halloween the next year, we were a solid couple. But we were also a cheap couple, so I pulled out my old karate gear, slapped on some construction paper circles, and kapow! We were Yin and Yang.

The next year, we were in Germany. Germans don't really do Halloween… so alas, the day came and went. But the next year, we found something almost as good as Halloween: Oktoberfest. We bought traditional Bavarian garb--Lederhosen and a Dirndl--and off we went!

The next year was, yet again, a year without Halloween, BUT I had the great fun of dressing up for a photo shoot. A steampunk photo shoot, in fact, to help promote my upcoming novel Something Strange and Deadly. The great Amanda Plavich found a great steampunk setting (old locomotives!) and I spent a few weeks putting together a costume. I'm super pleased by how it all turned out.

This year--now that I'm back in the US--I'm going to go ALL OUT for Halloween. I have a new steampunk-y costume I'm slowly assembling, and my town does a big Halloween parade. I. Cannot. Wait. What about you all? Do you dress up for Halloween?

Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
Publisher: HarperTeen (July 24th, 2012)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 388 pages
Series: Something Strange and Deadly, #1
The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia…

Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she’s just read in the newspaper—

The Dead are rising in Philadelphia.

And then, in a frightening attack, a zombie delivers a letter to Eleanor… from her brother.

Whoever is controlling the Dead army has taken her brother as well. If Eleanor is going to find him, she’ll have to venture into the lab of the notorious Spirit-Hunters, who protect the city from supernatural forces. But as Eleanor spends more time with the Spirit-Hunters, including their maddeningly stubborn yet handsome inventor, Daniel, the situation becomes dire. And now, not only is her reputation on the line, but her very life may hang in the balance.

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