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Fall is for Rain & Leaves & Witches & Books

Oct 13, 2024

Fall is for Rain & Leaves & Witches & Books.

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Fall is my season.

I’m coming alive.

With the bulky sweaters and the oversized scarves. The brisk bite to the breeze. The way the air smells like dirt and leaves. The bright, brilliant colors of autumn—red and gold and orange and yellow.

Staying inside on a rainy day curled up in my chair with a blanket and a book and a huge mug of hot tea.

The scent of cinnamon and apples and orange spice.

October is for all things spooky and witchy and my witchy-ness feels a sense of freedom to soar.

While I do full moon rituals with my children, and new moon rituals in the bathtub.

While I go outside and howl at the moon.

It’s the season where I feel like my true, authentic self.

A self that was told for years that she was too moody. Or too intimidating. Or to smile more often. Or to wear pink instead of gray. As a child. A young woman. Made to question the very things that make me feel…well, like me.

But I am moody. I might be intimidating (depends who you ask). And I really, really like wearing black and gray.

So it’s no surprise that my romance novel isn’t a rom-com, but a moody, atmospheric romance that takes place in AUTUMN. Where my protagonist, Aila, wraps herself up in scarves and drinks hot tea while watching the waves of Puget Sound lash at the shoreline. Where her sister, Cam, grows her own vegetables and herbs to cook with at the family inn. And so the reader gets to sit with them, these two sisters, while Aila sips coffee and Cam bakes pumpkin muffins. And we get to smell the smells, and get cozy too. We get to sense the rain in the air, feel it on our skin. We get to hear the seabirds call. We get to live at Inn Buchanan, with the Buchanan sisters, and experience a steamy, MOODY, romance that gives us all the feels.

The reader gets to live in this MOOD.

And I’m embracing it.

My hope is that you do too.

XX

Emily