Loren Rhoads

This night was so much fun!

Jane Yolen wrote me yesterday with a marketing plan for my new book!

Not sure I want an extra hour.

The other readers at the HWA event are @writerofweird.bsky.social @morbidloren.bsky.social @fredwiehe.bsky.social @jonathan-fortin.bsky.social & @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social

Come join us for a spooky good time!

I need to get my hands on these cards.

Not all crooked trees are bent with age.
Some lean over to tell secrets, if only we would listen.
Secrets only the owls know.

Sun setting in ocean October 15 2025

Pacific Ocean, sunset. 🌅

I couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom.

Flyer for event reads "A conversation with authors Amy Shea, Loren Rhoads & beth Winegarner. October 16, 2025 @ 6 pm. SF Columbarium 1 Lorraine Court, San Francisco. Books will be sold by Green Apple Books."

Cemetery lovers! I'm joining authors Amy Shea (Too Poor to Die) and Beth Winegarner (San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries) to talk about our cemetery books at the lovely old San Francisco Columbarium this Thursday night. Register for a free ticket at eventbrite. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-tou...

Book giveaway for Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025 Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025. I'm giving away 100 ebook copies of my new cemetery memoir, Still...

Cemeteries + travel, what could be better? Last day! Enter to win an ebook of my new cemetery memoir, Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

Spooky Hat!

It's October! We're all wearing our SpOoKy hats now, right?

Right?

#SpookyHats

Funny you should mention that… I’m going to be reading for Morbid Curiosity #11 soon. 🔮

Had the honor of being on a death care in science fiction panel with @morbidloren.bsky.social at FOGcon a lifetime ago; this event looks great!

We should do that again, one of these days!

Winged hourglass!

SF Bay Area Horror fans! I’m going to be reading with other members of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social on October 25! www.litquake.org/litcrawl for more details!

Book giveaway for Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025 Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025. I'm giving away 100 ebook copies of my new cemetery memoir, Still...

Do you like cemeteries? Are you on Goodreads? Enter to win an ebook of my cemetery memoir Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Important info on scams for authors here.

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations th...

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Hope something good happens to you today.

Promotional flyer for an event titled "A Book Tour of Cemeteries: A Conversation with authors Amy Shea, Loren Rhoads, & Beth Winegarner." The event is scheduled for Thursday, October 16th, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the SF Columbarium, 1 Loraine Ct, San Francisco, CA 94118. The flyer features headshots of the three authors and their respective books: Amy Shea with "Too Poor to Die" Loren Rhoads with "Still Wish You Were Here" Beth Winegarner with "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries" The description highlights that the authors will discuss cemeteries as spaces that reveal community stories, cultural history, and personal reflections. It emphasizes the themes of death, memory, erasure, and storytelling. At the bottom, it notes: "Books will be sold by Green Apple Books!" The background is light blue with dark blue and white text.

You could hardly find a more on-brand October event: Me, Amy Shea and @morbidloren.bsky.social at the SF Columbarium on Oct. 16. Registration link below!

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-tou...

Great jumping Joshua. This is an absolutely killer line-up (no pun intended.)

Too Poor to Die

Free online book seminar with Amy Shea

Still time to sign up, one week to go!

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

❤️

The One Percent’s Fear of Death Is Wreaking Havoc on the World Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death posited that we act out in antisocial ways—and even embrace authoritarians—because we cannot face our own unavoidable demise.

My latest for @newrepublic.com: I went back to Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1974 book “The Denial of Death” to see if it had insights in an age of AI, nightmare tech bros, and the return of Trump in the wake of Covid-19. Turns out it does, though not in the way Becker quite foresaw:

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.