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  Sharing a picture of the late beloved Sula, parish cat at Old Mission San Juan Bautista to wish everyone a: Happy Halloween Blessed All Saints Day Blessed All Souls Day Happy Dia de Muertos/Day of the Dead For more posts about Sula, click HERE .  One of her books, Saints I Know , as written especially for this time of year,  as was Dia de Muertos . For more Caturday posts, click  HERE . Read more  posts about cats . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become award-winning published authors. One writer at a time. We are a family, not a factory. Do you have a future with us? Turned away by other publishers because you are a first-time author and/or do not have a strong platform yet? If you have a strong manuscript, San Juan Books, ou

  Diana Keathley, author of the award-winning  GodSway , wrote an intriguing blog post, quite seasonal, recently: " The Monster in My Head. " (The link will take you to this blog post -- and others.) Should you not like clicking links, here is the full post: With my broken foot booted and propped up, I sat angled in the corner of the couch surfing the station guide and Netflix to find something to take my mind off the most recent frustration. Looking for something uplifting and inspiring, I was annoyed that so close to Halloween practically all I found were horror movies and sci-fi thrillers – a myriad of variations of ghosts, monsters, murderers, and resident evil. As someone who experienced my own version of a horror movie inside my head as a young teen, I can’t understand why people choose to watch those scenarios, on purpose. “With the door firmly shut and locked, I could roll with the wave of sheer terror that I physically felt surging up through my legs, torso, and engu

  Today's shared blog post comes from Franki Bagdade, author of the award-winning book (IAN Book of the Year, Literary Titan gold medal), I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them . In her post, Franki writes: Halloween was my Dad’s favorite holiday. My mom would pull out old decorations held together by masking tape and memories and we’d work together to decorate our big picture windows. My Dad would carve elaborate pumpkins, one year making a cabbage patch kid to my pure delight as a child of the 80’s. I have a more complicated relationship with Halloween. It’s hard not to see it as a disruption to the already impossible and overwhelming duties of modern parenthood. Read the rest of the post at  Will Halloween be a Treat or a Trick (substack.com) . For more posts about Franki and her book, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on

(Bethany @ A Fish Who Likes Flowers)   As National Breast Cancer Month comes to an end, I wonder how many readers know about the following? Actual pink-colored pumpkins grown for breast cancer awareness. Check out this Huff Post article about farmers who grow these pink pumpkins. A company that sells pink pumpkin shirts. There are several styles. Check them out HERE . Finally, read an inspiring article about "The Power of Pink" at the blog, A Fish Who Likes Flowers, written by Bethany, who also designed the pumpkin in the image above. Seriously, worth a read -- and a good blog to follow. Blog editor's note: As a memorial to Carl, and simply because it is truly needed, MSI Press is now hosting a web page,  Carl's Cancer Compendium , as a one-stop starting point for all things cancer, to make it easier for those with cancer to find answers to questions that can otherwise take hours to track down on the Internet and/or from professionals. The web page is in its infancy

  Yes, our book, Dia de Muertos is about the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead, that occurs the day after Halloween, but these days have much in common -- and not. One section in the book spells out these differences; check it out! For excerpts from Dia de Muertos and other information about the book, click HERE .

  Every year, Sula, parish cat at Old Mission San Juan Bautista, who takes care of the Mission, gift shop, and parishioners, dresses up for Halloween and has a great time greeting customers at the gift shop as well as at Mass. This year, Sula has done something special for Halloween. She has written a book, Dia de Muertos , about Day of the Dead that occurs at the same time, and she lists all the differences between the two holidays. See that except HERE . Enjoy Halloween, then curl up with Sula's book and get ready for Day of the Dead. For more posts from this blog and from the Internet about Sula, click HERE . For more posts about Day of the Dead, click HERE . For more posts about Sula's books, click HERE .