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Thinking it's been awhile since you heard from your friends at featherproof? You're right. What have we been waiting for? October.

It's our favorite month, and not just because 100% of featherproof founders were born in October. No, it's our favorite because the countdown to Halloween costumes has begun. Everyone knows that if you're really going to knock 'em dead come the day of the dead, you've got to start thinking now. And at featherproof, we're here to help.

You might get a few ideas from the two new minis we've just put up. You could be a bathrobed stork, like in John Griswold's The Stork, a gonzo mini of the highest order from the man often disguised as McSweeney's Oronte Churm.

Or how about taking it off, like the hero of Mariead Case's Magic? Watch this mini for a compelling costume change.

You might find artsy inspiration in Zach's interview over at AIGA Voice. Or Susannah's '80s fashion tips from a Permanent Record review here. Or take it from Brian Costello, and go post-goth with this novel excerpt.

But that's not all. We're also going to lend a hand by providing a few events where you can showcase your new duds, before that big halloween party hits. On October 10th, come dressed as a skyscraper to the Chicago Publishers Gallery opening at the Cultural Center downtown. You'll find our books, as well as Mr.Jonathan Messinger, sitting on the panel 'Chicago: A Great Place for Publishing.' Sounds great, right?

Then, pull on those hot pants for an evening with Quickies, the reading series that goes real fast. Zach will be reading 55 words, along with 30 other Chicago writers in rapid-fire succession. It's going to be hot and heavy. That's on Tuesday, October 14, 7:30 at the Innertown Pub.

After that, we'll see you in your top hat and tux when Stop Smiling magazine brings Nathaniel Rich to town. He'll talk with Jonathan on stage, and on Chicago Public Radio. He wrote a maxi book, The Mayor's Tongue, and that Mayor wrote a mini book, Keftir the Blind. So come watch us sort it all out on October 19th at the Biograph Theatre. Zach will run the slide projector.

Then try on one of those freaky presidential masks the next night as Jonathan joins the likes of Stuart Dybek and Sara Paretsky at Writers & Cartoonists for Obama a FUNdraiser for the hometown boy. Come see if he was able to write something political but not pedantic. No one likes a halloween smartass.

No matter what you're wearing, it'd be great to see you.

Happy October,

f'proof