Bookish Halloween Is Here Our Third Thyme Lane Coloring Book

Hi Bookish Besties, I cannot quite believe I’m writing another one of these posts already, but our third Thyme Lane coloring book is here, and this one might be our coziest yet. Bookish Halloween: Spooky Cute Halloween Coloring Book for Book Lovers is officially the third book in our Bold & Easy Coloring Books series, and it brings together two things I love very much: books and that cozy, slightly magical feeling of Halloween. There is no terrifying haunted houses, and no nightmare fuel. This is Halloween for those of us who would rather spend October wrapped in a blanket with a book, a warm drink, pumpkins everywhere, and maybe a friendly little ghost reading beside us. Basically, we made my version of Halloween which leans more cozy not scary.

How We Somehow Got to Book Three

I’m still wrapping my head around how quickly Thyme Lane has grown. When I teamed up with a wonderfully talented illustrator, who also happens to be a reader and a teacher, I knew I wanted to make something that felt genuinely fun for book lovers. We started with Cozy Reading, our first bold and easy coloring book filled with all those little things that make reading feel comforting. Then came Bookish Quotes, with 50 designs built around the sayings, moods, mantras, and inside jokes that make up the reading life. It’s this new creative corner of my world centered around simple, analog ways to slow down and enjoy small moments. I’ve spent so much of my life talking about books, and there’s something incredibly satisfying about finding another way to create around that love of reading.

Meet Bookish Halloween: A Spooky-Cute Coloring Book Made for Readers

With Bookish Halloween, I didn’t want to make a regular Halloween coloring book and throw a few books into it. I wanted it to feel bookish on every single page. So yes, there are witches, but they’re reading, and there are ghosts, but they have books. There are black cats, pumpkins, candlelit libraries, cozy reading nooks, spell books, stacks of novels, Halloween treats, and all those warm autumn details that make me want to disappear into October for a while. Inside are 50 hand-drawn, large-print designs, divided into five different sections:

• Witchy Reading
• Spooky Cute Creatures
• Pumpkin Season Reading
• Haunted Cozy Reading
• Halloween Night Treats

And one of my favorite little rules we gave ourselves while creating it? Every page has a book. It is called Bookish Halloween, after all.

Why We Keep Making Them Bold and Easy

I love beautiful coloring books, but sometimes I don’t want my relaxing activity to become another thing that requires intense concentration. That’s why this entire Thyme Lane series is intentionally bold and easy. The illustrations have thick, clean lines and larger open spaces without a million tiny details to color. You can sit down with your markers or pencils, choose a page, and just enjoy yourself, because there’s no right way to make it look. That’s especially important to me because I want these books to work for longtime colorists and people who haven’t touched a coloring book in years. Maybe you color while listening to an audiobook. Maybe you need something to do with your hands while watching your comfort show. Maybe you’re trying to spend a little less time scrolling at night. Or maybe you just really want to color a ghost reading a book. All options are valid reasons.

A Little Peek at What’s Coming Next From Thyme Lane

Because apparently we have completely embraced this new adventure, Bookish Halloween isn’t the last coloring book coming this year. We’re hoping to wrap up Bookish Christmas this week, which I am very excited about. Originally, I also wanted to create Bookish Fall, but we simply ran out of time. Rather than rushing it just to get it out, we’re saving that one for next year. I would much rather give ourselves the time to make it the way we actually want it. The good news is that Bookish Halloween has plenty of those cozy seasonal vibes to carry us through autumn. After Christmas, we’ll move into our first true seasonal book, Bookish Winter, and then we’ll finish out our coloring-book releases for the year with another Bookish Quotes book. Then I’m making myself stop, at least for this year.

Creating Bookish Halloween Has Made This Feel Real

There’s something about reaching book three that has made me stop and think, oh, we’re actually doing this. The first book felt like this exciting experiment. The second made me realize how many ideas we still had. Now, with Bookish Halloween, I’m beginning to see what Thyme Lane can become. I’m also learning how much I enjoy the process itself, the conversations, choosing concepts, figuring out what belongs in each book, seeing an idea become an illustration, and then eventually holding the finished book. I didn’t see this coming a year ago, and maybe that’s part of why I’m enjoying it so much.

Final Thoughts

I’m incredibly excited to finally add Bookish Halloween to our little Thyme Lane shelf. If your ideal Halloween involves books, pumpkins, cozy witches, friendly ghosts, black cats, candlelight, and absolutely no desire to be genuinely terrified, I think you’re going to have a lot of fun with this one. And if you’ve been here since Cozy Reading, thank you for following along while I figure out this entirely unexpected creative adventure. Getting to make something specifically for people who love books as much as I do has been one of the sweetest surprises of my year. Now I want to know: what bookish coloring theme would you love to see us create someday? Tell me in the comments because, as I’ve very clearly learned, I should never say I won’t end up making something.