Kate Reedwood, author

So this happened today. Our very first orange banner.

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped make this book a reality: from our amazing editing team, Kaylene Osborn and Katie Lowe, to Jarrod Elvin for his stunningly beautiful art with not only the cover but also the interior illustrations in the paperback and hardcover editions, to our beta readers Sam Veltre and Dylan Wells who helped fine tune the details, to our wonderful families and friends cheering us on in the background, to Alan Baxter and Mark Towse who took time out of their own very busy schedules to read a rough copy and come up with kind and nice words to say about this unusual story for us to use as blurbs, and all the wonderful, busy ARC readers and book lovers who have taken a chance on this unusual story, especially everyone who has talked about it and helped spread the word about it, Emily Haynes, Alexus Johnson, Savannah R. Fischer, Alexandra Nisneru just to name a few -- that orange banner belongs to you all, because your collective belief in us and this book made it happen.

And a special thank you to Chris Heinicke for writing this story with me. After 15 co-written stories, maybe we are doing something right? 😅

Thank you everyone 🥹😭❤️

One year ago, on October 22, 2024,Chris Heinicke and I released what we called at the time our "October book" into the world.

We never know how our books will be received but we hoped that people would enjoy a crazy trip back to 1982 and the small town of Harvest Creek, Wisconsin where the Halloween Harvest Festival was set to become a horrorshow of pumpkin-rat-zombie-apocalypcalyptic proportions.

One year later, we can safely say that with over 120 ratings, it is our most popular book to date and we are very happy so many people have added it to their annual Spooky Season reading list.

Happy book birthday, Pumpkin Patch. 🎃 We couldn't be more proud of you.