As of 9AM Pacific tomorrow (Saturday) morning, the Kickstarter for the cemetery book I’m editing will be over.
This has been an enormous learning experience. I felt pretty confident going into the project that I could edit an amazing book. Death’s Garden Revisited will be the sixth book I’ve edited — and I’ve worked with presses from Scribner to Damnation to Tomes & Coffee, so I knew it was going to be beautifully designed. The trick was going to be raising the money so I could make the full-color hardcover that I envisioned.
And backers made that happen on the very first day.
Since then, backers have preordered enough books that I can add additional photos to the book, commission a couple of essays, and host a reading on Zoom that will include the international contributors.
The final goal ahead of us is a book release party in a cemetery in the Bay Area. I’m hoping that will happen before the campaign ends.
This week I announced the book’s Table of Contents on Kickstarter. Here it is:
Cemetery Strawberries – Chris LaMay-West
A Tale of 25,000 Tales – M. Parfitt
Guess How Many People are Buried in Bonaventure Cemetery? – Barbara Baird
Brown Bodies and Burials – Saraliza Anzaldúa
Toasting a Ghost in Northern Ireland – Anne Born
La Recoleta – Rain Graves
How the Forgotten Angels Saved My Life – Emerian Rich
Not a Tourist Attraction – Priscilla Bettis
Sacred Heart – Robert Holt
Family Time – A.M. Muffaz
History Lives Like Ghosts – Trilby Plants
In the Shadow of Eldfell – Greg Roensch
The Silence of Block 14 – Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito
Paris’s Secret Cemetery – Erika Mailman
Katie Likes Flowers – Joanne M. Austin
Marking Fred Gwynne’s Unmarked Grave with Flowers – Sharon Pajka
Wedding Vailes – Angela Yuriko Smith
Crossed Fingers – Jo Nell Huff
New Orleans Blues – Christine Sutton
Communing with the Dead – George Neville-Neil
Death and Spinsterhood: It’s Personal – Rachelle Meilleur
The Swirl of Silence – Denise N. Tapscott
The Day it Snowed in Prague – E.M. Markoff
I Found Love on Find-A-Grave – J’aime Rubio
MS. Inspired by a Graveyard – Trish Wilson
Never Let Your Feet Get Cold – Carrie Sessarego
The Treasure Hunter – Stephen Mark Rainey
Lenin’s Mausoleum – Melodie Bolt
When a Cemetery Speaks – R. L. Merrill
The Hill Church Cemetery of Sighișoara, Romania: An Unforgettable Experience – Rena Mason
A Girl, Her Dad, and a Cemetery – Francesca Maria
Ghost in the Graveyard – Benjamin Scuglia
The Cemetery that Changed My Life – Carole Tyrrell
Exhuming Corpses for Fun and Profit – Paul Stansfield
Ebb and Flow: Finding My Way Back to Family – Mary Rajotte
If you’d like to pick up a copy of the book for yourself, here’s the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lorenrhoads/deaths-garden-revisited-relationships-with-cemeteries
Don’t snooze! The clock is ticking.
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I’m returning to in-person bookselling this weekend!
We’re in the last few days of the Death’s Garden Kickstarter. Only the book release party in a cemetery left to achieve.
I met Denise Tapscott on the Queen Mary during the 2017 StokerCon. She had just published her first novel, a sweeping story that begins as a Romeo and Juliet story and swells into an examination of power, responsibility, and family.
Officially, California native Denise N. Tapscott left her heart in San Francisco, but somehow left her soul in New Orleans. She recently joined the popular weekly podcast Beef, Wine & Shenanigans with Steven Van Patten, Marc Abbott, and Kirk A. Johnson. She plays sassy vampire “Tasha” on the YouTube web series The Vamps Next Door. As a member of the HWA, she published her first novel Gypsy Kisses and Voodoo Wishes, as well as her short story “The Price of Salvation.” Check out her work at 
