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Sunday June 9, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n LOREN RHOADS – NANCY ETCHEMENDY – E. M. MARKOFF In November 2018, fire broke out on Camp Creek Road and soon raced through Butte County, California. By the time the fire was finally extinguished, the town of Paradise had been scoured from the map. Nearly 100 people were dead. Damage ran to an estimated $16 billion. The disaster has been named the Camp Fire, in memory of its place of origin.<\/p>\n The horror writers of Northern California rallied to raise money for the survivors. Tales for the Camp Fire<\/em> ranges from fairy tale to science fiction, from psychological terror to magical realism, from splatterpunk to black humor, all rounded out by a messed-up post-apocalyptic cookbook. Through these pages roam werewolves, serial killers, a handful of ghosts, plenty of zombies, Cthulhu cultists, mad scientists, and a pair of conjoined twins.<\/p>\n Tomes & Coffee will be donating all the profits from sales of the book to the North Valley Community Foundation, which writes grants to organizations that support victims of the Camp Fire.<\/p>\n All profits from the sale of this anthology will be donated to Camp Fire relief and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n With moderator Terry Bisson Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by conversation and Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Books will be for sale at the event, courtesy of Borderlands Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n The event will be podcasted by SomaFM<\/a>, Listener-supported, commercial-free, radio broadcasting from San Francisco to the world. All proceeds go to the American Bookbinders Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n LOREN RHOADS<\/a> – editor and publisher of the monthly magazine, Morbid Curiosity<\/em>, published in San Francisco from 1997 to 2006. The magazine was devoted to first-person nonfiction essays, exploring “the unsavory, unwise, unorthodox, and unusual: all the dark elements that make life truly worth living.” In September 2009, the book, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues<\/em>, was published by Scribners, a collection of Rhoads’ favorite stories from all issues. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die<\/em>, a guidebook to cemeteries around the world, came out in a BEAUTIFUL illustrated full-color hardcover from Black Dog & Leventhal Books in October 2017. Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel<\/em>, part cemetery history, part travel memoir, is a collection of Rhoads’ essays from Gothic.Net, Morbid Outlook<\/em>, Eleven Eleven<\/em>, and Morbid Curiosity<\/em> magazine, alongside pieces written specifically for the book. She also published a grimdark space opera trilogy, In the Wake of the Templars (The Dangerous Type<\/em>, Kill By Numbers<\/em>, and No More Heroes<\/em>), in 2015, along with various short fiction in anthologies Best New Horror #27<\/em>, Strange California<\/em>, The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One<\/em>, Sins of the Sirens: 14 Tales of Dark Desire<\/em>, and nEvermore!: Tales of Murder, Mystery, and the Macabre<\/em>. <\/p>\n She is the editor of the anthology, Tales for the Camp Fire<\/em>, to raise money for the survivors of the most devastating wildfire in California\u2019s history. Contributors include Nancy Etchemendy, Dana Fredsti, L. S. Johnson, E. M. Markoff, Ben Monroe, Gene O\u2019Neill, and more.<\/p>\n
\nTales for the Camp Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDoors and bar open at 6:00PM – Event begins at 6:30PM
\n$10 at the door \/ $8 for students with valid high school or college ID card<\/p>\n