🧙‍♀️ Y’all, it’s spooky season 🐈‍⬛

Fall & spooky book recs from other worms 🍁 🐛 

We’ve got a great list of books to add to your TBR this fall and just in time for the Autumn Harvest Challenge 🍂🔮 Thank you to wormies: aureilus, sambivalent, I_Love_A_Book_And_A_Cozy_Blanket, mushroommommy, queserasarah, bettyc, jellyfish, kimhedwig, and maiaia!🦇🐛 

🚨 ATTENTION WORMS: we have new merch!!! 🚨

We are so excited to say that we have new merch! We have added: new beanies, new totes, and new shirts to our bookworm fashion line (if you will 😘). Show off your bookworm pride with these worm, beloved clothes. 

Reading classic books with

Savanna Clark (@savanna.the.worm)

Each month, we hope to chat with a wormie just like you. Bookworm is all about community, and it’s high time we get to know our neighbors. We want to learn more about your reading habits, favorite books, and the odd, beautiful things that make you you. 

This month’s wormie, Savanna, is a lover of classic books and Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones. Meet Savanna Clark.

How did you find out about Bookworm?

I started getting into tracking my reading the last few years and wanted something to take that beyond the notes app on my phone. I think I found Bookworm in a Google search somehow, and I immediately fell in love with the genuinely welcoming community there. It feels like a rarity on the internet these days, and it’s so refreshing.

👹 Monsters, Messiness, and Making Meaning: A Conversation with M.M. Olivas 🌈 

How do you balance writing what you love with writing what you think will appeal to your audience? Is there a middle ground?

I don’t think about audience. Especially not the commercial kind. Writing to appeal to the masses too often means writing for the comfort of people outside your own community. For people of color, for queer people, that leads to tokenization.

So I write for myself. Because I know I’m not alone. I’m not the only trans woman who grew up with religious trauma or loved horror and monsters. My audience will find me—because they’ve lived what I’ve lived, too.

Happy reading 💖 ,

Team Worm 🐛🥰