Dapper Day Fall 2019 at Disneyland, CA was the first weekend of November. It was also the first time one at the parks could include Galaxy’s Edge since that land opened after Spring Dapper Day had already taken place. Naturally, my sister and I decided to participate for the first time because Star Wars. With one month left before the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga, it felt like a nice way to kick off our celebration of the series.

Victoria (a.k.a. V.E.) Schwab is an incredible author and gift to the writing community. If you aren’t familiar with her work, she has written middle grade (City of Ghosts), young adult (The Archived), and adult fiction (Shades of Magic). She also has a comic and has been teasing some Hollywood adventures, so you’re going to want to follow her @veschwab for news on that!

Before I Go To Sleep is a mystery thriller with an insidiously slow burn. It’s like the funhouse version of Adam Sandler’s 50 First Dates: girl meets boy, they fall in love and get married, girl is the victim of a tragic accident that leaves her a permanent amnesiac who is horrified to wake up to the man she loves (a virtual stranger to her!) every morning thereafter. It has the ingredients to be an awkward, lopsided love story filled with courage, heart, and poetic realizations about the human condition— but it’s actual nightmare fuel.

The nice thing about Disneybounding compared to cosplay is you don’t have to be screen accurate. Instead of copying a character’s makeup, you get to express the character through your makeup. There’s nothing more fun than doing a shimmery purple and black smokey eye and pairing it with a dark red lip to portray the Evil Queen from Snow White.

Who doesn’t love to play the “what if” game of allegiance flipping and genre switching? Twisted Tuesday’s theme is all about subversions and mash-ups. We want to see characters with edgy makeovers like Goth Disney Princesses or Roller Derby Beauxbaton witches. We want your heroes gone bad – Dark Rey, anyone? – or villains gone good.

The first day of the challenge had to be about monsters, arguably the A-Listers of spooky season. Get inspired by your favorite bloodsuckers, were-creatures, and things that go bump in the night. And you don’t have to look to just classic horror monsters. Mythical beasties and modern monsters are fair game, too. Want to pay homage to the vampires of Twilight? Go for it! Is the Babadook your fashion icon? Show us!