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Loren Rhoads

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No rest for the morbid! Still Wish You Were Here, 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Death's Garden Revisited, This Morbid Life: Essays, Lost Angels, & Unsafe Words: Stories. she/her

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 13d

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!
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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...

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 23h

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...

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...

www.goodreads.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 6d

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

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Chad Savage @savagesinister.bsky.social · 12d

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

Right?

#SpookyHats

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Rev. Alcyone Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 12d

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!

Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 12d

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!

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 12d

We should do that again, one of these days!

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 12d

Winged hourglass!

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Ben Monroe @benmonroe.com · 12d

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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...

www.goodreads.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14d

Important info on scams for authors here.

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 14d

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

www.patreon.com

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14d

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."

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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 14d

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

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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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15d

Hope something good happens to you today.

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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · 20d

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...

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.

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 24d

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

Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 24d

✨Announcing our October 2025 Criterion Channel lineup✨
www.criterion.com/current/post...

A promotional poster for the Criterion Channel featuring film categories for October, including horror, Hong Kong action classics, body horror, and films by John Woo and Jean Rollin.

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CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · 26d

Too Poor to Die

Free online book seminar with Amy Shea

Still time to sign up, one week to go!

CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · Sep 2

Too Poor to Die with Amy Shea

Please join us for a talk with Amy Shea – to mark the launch of her new book Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins.

Hosted online by Dr John Troyer on Tuesday 23 September from 7-8pm BST

Tickets below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/too-poor-t...

Too Poor to Die

The hidden realities of dying in the margins

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 28d

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 28d

'Andor' wins the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Sep 10

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:

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.

newrepublic.com

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · Sep 8

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

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Beth Winegarner @bethwinegarner.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you've been wanting to read a chapter from "San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries," now's your chance.

"Historians aren’t certain how many graves remain at City Cemetery. Researcher Alex Ryder believes it’s at least 10,000 but is probably closer to 20,000 or more."

Left Behind | The Order of the Good Death

Author Beth Winegarner reveals the dead who still lie beneath some of San Francisco's most cherished destinations in her book,

www.orderofthegooddeath.com

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · Sep 2

Long live the new flesh

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · Aug 31

“I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain’t gave a bitch a poison apple yet” is art and belongs in the Louvre

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Loren Rhoads @morbidloren.bsky.social · Aug 31

Than you, I will! It’s a cemetery memoir.

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