Autumn & Will

Hi! We are Autumn and Will, the co-founders of Autumn Reads. We first met in 2015 using (at the time) one of those new-fangled online dating apps. As we like to say, Will was Autumn's first match, and Autumn was Will's last. The rest is history. By day, both of us have serious jobs being serious people but we don't let that get in the way of having a good a good time.

Autumn has been making jewelry for years, a staple of gifts and local sales. We've wanted for years to expand and make these offerings to a wider audience. It finally all coalesced around a core idea once fall day in 2025, the Misleading Blind Date with a Book. We had purchased a Blind Date with a Book and were joking about how funny it would be if we opened it and found a children's book instead of the sci-fi/fantasy we were expecting.

We ran with that and while we obviously had to have some bounds on it, we figured we'd focus on the blind dates that didn't go quite the way anyone would have hoped. The final piece of the puzzle was when we looked at some of our favorite books and found some wild one-star reviews that didn't make a lick of sense to us. The more we dug the more fun we had trying to find ways to describe these books doing as poor a job as we could.  

And here we are, offering our signature line of the Misleading Blind Date with a Book, keychains, drink accessories, electronic dust plugs, and pens. We hope to have more and more added as time goes on.

What about fun?

If you asked friends and family what you should know about us, you will likely hear a few recurring items.

  • We have two Boston Terriers, Navi and Ganon, who are our interns at the business and our constant shadows.  

  • We love to travel, especially to go to concerts with a (weird) combination of favorite bands including Sleep Token and Phish. 
  • Our favorite book series and authors are:
    • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
    • Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
    • Anything Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson
    • Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
    • Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
    • Many, many, more!

  • How about Movies and TV?
    • Howl's Moving Castle and Studio Ghibli 
    • Lord of the Rings
    • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Up and Disney/Pixar in general
    • The Office
    • Bob's Burgers
    • Doctor Who

  • And finally games?
    • The Legend of Zelda series
    • Animal Crossing
    • It Takes Two
    • Final Fantasy
    • Hollow Knight and Silksong (and Metroidvanias)