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Coming up:
August 27, 2024: 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die came out!
September 29, 2024 at 1-3 pm: I’ll be signing books at the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird and Fantastic in Petaluma, California. Come up and say hi! Here’s the address.
October 12, 2024 at 7-9 pm: I’ll be reading a spooky short story at Telegraph Hill Books in San Francisco, alongside Francesca Maria, Tamika Thompson, and L.S. Johnson. Here are the details.
October 16, 2024 at 4-5 pm Pacific: I will be interviewing Paul Koudounaris online about his new book Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion for the Mark Twain House & Museum. Get your tickets here!
October 20, 2024 at 1 pm: I’ll be doing my first event ever at the Book Passage in Corte Madera, California. I’ll be showing photos from the book and talking about my cemetery travels, then signing books. Details here.
October 22, 2024 at 7 pm: I’m returning to San Francisco’s Green Apple Books on the Park! I will be in conversation with Josh Willson, editor of the
Fabulist, about cemeteries. Josh is amazing, so I’m really looking forward to this event.
October 26, 2024: I’m still waiting for the details, but I’ll be joining The Fabulist for San Francisco Litcrawl this year. I think I’ll read one of the flash-length Alondra stories. I seriously can’t wait.
October 27, 2024 at 7:30 pm: I’ll be back at the San Francisco Columbarium to discuss cemeteries and horror stories with Emerian Rich and Francesca Maria for the venerable series SFinSF. Both Emerian and Francesca were contributors to Death’s Garden Revisited. It should be a great evening. Hopefully, we won’t have an earthquake again this year!
2024 Publication News:
The Fabulist is publishing my story “Protection Spell” on October 25, 2024. This Alondra story is very close to my heart. It’s the first time I’ve written a story from Alondra’s girlfriend Stella’s point of view.
222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, the corrected and expanded version of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, will be out on August 27, 2024. It’s already up for preorder! You can find all the booksellers carrying it here.
If you would like a review copy, let me know and I will hook you up with the publicity team at Black Dog & Leventhal.
If you’d be interested in booking me for an event, please get in touch soon. October is starting to fill up for in-person events! I love to do events online, too. It would be great to chat with your reading group or book club over zoom.
Death’s Garden Revisited made it to the Quarter Finals of the Booklife Prize.
The judges said: “While at first glance, this may seem like a macabre topic, and some pieces certainly frame it in that light, in other hands, the perspective is legitimately and movingly life-affirming. This is a wonderfully distinctive and memorable collection that, despite its focus, contains surprisingly uplifting moments and a deep reverence for the final resting places described.”
If you’d like to join the discussion about Death’s Garden Revisited — or even if you are just cemetery curious, you can download a free copy of the Reader’s Guide from Bookfunnel.
Available now: The ebook of 99 Fleeting Fantasies came out earlier this year from Pulse Publishing. Similar to last year’s 99 Tiny Terrors, this book — edited by Jennifer Brozek — collects 99 fantasy stories that pass in a flash. My story “The Ambush Hunters,” an Alondra story set in San Francisco, is one of them.
Here’s the universal sales link: https://books2read.com/99FleetingFantasies
I have another very short Alondra story up as part of the Ladies of Horror Flash Project. You can read “Harsh to Us is Home to Them” here.
