Season of Shadows Blog

Shy of about three days, the Halloween Webcam has been focused on my garden every night for the last month. Though I originally planned to keep it there until Halloween, I’ve decided to move the feed back to the workshop again. I’m making the move for a couple of reasons: one being that I’ve had some requests to show my prop work in real time, and another being that my camera doesn’t seem too happy staying focused on the garden for ten hours straight.

The webcam actually tends to have a few hiccups when I work it that hard, so I’ve decided to give it a little vacation. After getting some rest, it should be up and running in the shop by the 20th of August. I’ll post a reminder update on the 20th for anyone interested in checking it out that evening.

The image in this post was lovingly inspired by Autumnforest and Goldie. Both recently accused me of being a tease when it comes to showing prop progress, so I had to prove they’re right by including a teaser photo of the Angel of Death. After all, the first step is admitting you have a problem: My name is John and I’m a prop tease.

Though I’m going for a very emaciated look this time and his shroud will cover the majority of his head and body, there’s still a lot of mache work to be done. But, I honestly feel I do my best work as I know I’m getting closer to a deadline. Whenever there’s the slightest hint of fall in the air, I start kicking my prop work into high gear.

Very rarely do I ask for anything in return from visitors to Season of Shadows. It’s always reward enough just knowing people enjoy spending time at the site. However, this is one of those rare instances where I am asking for a little help. My friends, Autumnforest of Ghost Hunting Theories and Julie of Above the Norm, are working on a project called Hug-A-Blogger. H-A-B will feature both ladies traveling across several states on their way to meet-up with and interview seven horror/spooky bloggers (including me). All of their travels will unfold virtually on the Hug-A-Blogger Blog, eventually culminating with a published book containing the hugs and conducted interviews.

Here’s the part where I need your help: please, swing by Hug-A-Blogger and provide your support by joining the blog via Google’s Friend Connect feature. Autumn and Julie want to show the publishers how much interest is being generated and the more followers they have the better.

As of right now the blog is up and running, but they’re waiting on receiving a green light from publishers prior to posting the first entry. Also, if you want to receive updates on the project’s development, you can follow Hug-A-Blogger on Twitter.

Overall, this is going to be a really great thing for everyone involved. It’ll be highly entertaining to Hug-A-Blogger Blog visitors, since Julie and Autumnforest will be chronicling their entire trip with photographs and video updates of the crazy (and hopefully spooky) stuff they encounter. It’ll be helpful to the bloggers being interviewed — I know I’m looking forward to getting Season of Shadows out in the public eye a bit more. And, of course, it will put Autumnforest and Julie on the map for being published authors!

I so appreciate any support you can give to this project and I know Autumforest and Julie do as well.