Something Wicked Returns: Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris: Guest Post and Giveaway (INT)

Hello, my friends!

Something Wicked Returns is in full swing and I'm ridiculously excited about the whole thing, even more now that I have a hilarious post to share with you all. 

Truly funny people are so hard to find, and authors with a great sense of humor are few and far between. Luckily for us, there's Carrie Harris, author of Bad Taste In Boys, Bad Hair Day and the upcoming Sally Slick and Demon Derby. Carrie is a great, incredibly funny person and a truly fabulous author. If you've met her around the internet, you know exactly what I'm talking about. If not, here's your chance:

Why Halloween is Frawesome

by Carrie Harris

When Maja asked me to contribute a guest post about Halloween, I was thrilled. This is partly because I’m of the firm belief that Maja is FRAWESOME and partly because I’m of the firm belief that Halloween is FRAWESOME but not quite as frawesome as Maja. (That makes sense in my head. Honest.) I think the thing that gets me the most about Halloween is that it’s a time to let down your inhibitions. Some people take that the wrong way—I’m firmly reminded of the guy who spent one Halloween party walking around with a Twister mat wrapped around his body, yelling, “Right hand on yellow! Right hand on yellow!” You can imagine where the yellow was.

Yeah, that happened. Not frawesome, Twister Man. Not frawesome at all.

I’m not talking about turning into total creepers like Twister Man; I mean that for that one day, it’s perfectly acceptable to be a freak. I can wear my pink dress printed in zombie unicorns and dead teddy bears and fit right in! I have a good excuse to wear the Bride of Frankenstein earrings and the spike heels with the werewolves on them, except that I hate spike heels and inevitably end up carrying them. But they’re still cute, so I still consider it a win.

But this is about more than just the contents of my closet. For me, Halloween was like a gateway drug. I’ve always loved campy monster stuff—the Kate Grable books started out as me trying to make myself laugh, and the more outlandish they got, the harder I snarfed. But I felt this pressure to be normal—whatever that is—and to fit in with everyone else. But here was one day where I could go big and wave my freak flag high, and no one looked at me funny.

I began to suspect that maybe that freak flag deserved to be flown more often. Halloween’s just another day, right? If it’s okay to be weird during that 24-hour period, it’s okay to be weird PERIOD. And slowly but surely, I quit trying for normal and just said what was on my mind, wore what I wanted to, and to heck with what everyone else thought. And now? In my house, “weird” is a compliment, and it’s Halloween year round…minus the candy because that’s just overkill and minus the Twister Man for reasons that should be obvious.

Everyone deserves self-acceptance, and for me, that’s what Halloween is all about. Plus cool costumes, which is always a win.

ABOUT CARRIE:

Carrie Harris is a geek-of-all-trades and proud of it. Brains are her specialty; she used to work at a lab where they were delivered daily via FedEx. After that, it seemed only natural to write a zombie book. Now she lives in Michigan with her ninja-doctor husband and three zombie-obsessed children.

A copy of Carrie's first novel, Bad Taste in Boys, will be sent to one lucky winner from The Book Depository, which means that this giveaway is international. Enter the Rafflecopter below and keep your fingers crossed

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