As we say goodbye to October, let’s take a moment to appreciate just how freakin’ awesome the past month has been.
Let me make a bold statement: Since the dawn of fandom, no calendar month has ever been greater than October 2015.
Why?
October 1: ‘Doctor Who’ announced a new spinoff series geared towards YA audiences
October 6: Rick Riordan announced a new series set in Percy Jackson’s world
October 6: Rainbow Rowell published a ‘Fangirl’ spinoff
October 6: Stephenie Meyer Beyoncé’d us all with a gender-swapped ‘Twilight’
And we at Hypable interviewed the author.
October 7: The first-ever Harry Potter Illustrated Edition was released
And a new one will be released every year!
October 19: The final trailer for a new freakin’ Star Wars movie was released
Tickets went on sale the same day and fans crashed ticketing websites.
October 19: Netflix started working on a new freakin’ season of ‘Gilmore Girls’
October 20: J.K. Rowling released the third book in her Cormoran Strike series
October 21: We experienced freakin’ Back to the Future day
October 23: J.K. Rowling announced freakin’ Harry Potter 8 (as a stage play, but still being marketed as “the eighth story”)
Over 175,000 tickets were sold in the first eight hours.
October 23: Adele said ‘Hello’ for the first time in years when she released a new freakin’ song
October 26: Finally, Isaac Marion announced that the long awaited Warm Bodies sequel would be split into 2 books
And November is looking pretty good, too
- The final Hunger Games film will be released
- The aforementioned Adele album will be released
- Netflix’s second Marvel series, Jessica Jones, will be released
- Another Pixar movie will be released — the first time that Pixar has ever released two movies in a calendar year.
