Chris Hsiang took the best picture of me performing ever. Thanks, Chris!

The Martini Bar of Horror was my last performance for the year, so I’m glad it went well.  I was nervous about telling a story I hadn’t told in public before, but it felt like it went pretty well.  Next time I tell it live, I will nail it.

The Strange California book reached its funding on Kickstarter finally, so I’ll let you know when the book will be available.  It’s going to be a monster, absolutely huge.

I have been sitting on a really exciting announcement for about a month now, but hopefully I’ll get the contract very soon.  I cannot wait to dive into this new project!

In the meantime, I’ve been guest-posting all over everywhere in the last couple months, so here’s the collection of links:

Alison J. McKenzie asked me to talk about the best holiday of the year: https://alisonjmckenzie.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/the-best-holiday-of-the-year-guest-post-by-loren-rhoads/

Mental Floss invited me to suggest 8 of the Most Fascinating Cemeteries You Can Visit: http://cms.mentalfloss.com/article/87542/8-most-fascinating-cemeteries-you-can-visit

Search magazine asked me to write about the columbariums of the Bay Area: https://searchmagazinenet.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/search-honoring-the-dead/

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I raved about my favorite cemetery books on Kira Butler’s blog: http://www.kirabutler.com/top-ten-cemetery-history-books/

I mused on the novel and original Exorcist movie and how they led to the Lost Angels novel: http://horror.org/halloween-haunts-exorcism-fun-profit-loren-rhoads/

Finally:  there’s one more day to enter to win a copy of my book of cemetery travel essays, Wish You Were Here, on my Cemetery Travel blog: https://cemeterytravel.com/2016/10/24/win-a-copy-of-wish-you-were-here/