Four Star Funerals: An Anthology About Death

FOUR STAR FUNERALS packs the emotional wallop of Titanic, darkened with a dash of Tales From the Crypt. This ten-author anthology about death and its aftershocks will sear your soul, make you laugh … and ultimately help you heal, if you're haunted by a death that has upended your emotions in ways you never expected.

A Collection of Memoir, Poetry, and Short Fiction

For anyone whose life has been torn apart by death—the death of someone you loved, the death of someone with whom you had unfinished business, or a near brush with your own demise—this book will help you settle your emotions, heal the wounds, and get on with living. The writing is first-rate. The ten authors of this collection have been widely published in various genres and formats: mainstream books, magazines, anthologies; fiction, nonfiction, historical and contemporary; from children’s literature to scholarly work. There’s nothing else quite like it: 47,000 words of death-inspired passion, mostly memoir and essays but with touches of poetry and fiction. Read a little each night or morning, and feel your soul grow easy.

“A good read … I was impressed by the quality of writing from so many different authors. Each story was unique, but each was extremely well written. The subject of death was handled with discretion, punctuated now and then with humor, making it a ‘fun’ read. I highly recommend it.” —Marvin S. Mayer

WHEN THE END COMES ...

David R. Davis
Letting RIP on Four Star Funerals

I've been buried by work, but I must comment. This market isn't dead. I'm dying to be in the book, but we must undertake the task of digging up facts. If we don't, the consequences could be grave. Bad planning could throw a pall over the bearers of the manuscripts. We must toil to find a plot. Let's not write the eulogy just yet. We don't need to leave trouble in our wake. We'll do a great job if we find the will. We must work this project as a body. (We are not working for a kill fee.) When the end comes, we'll do a postmortem on funerals. Brothers and sisters! Quit playing along with the dirge of the marketplace. Listen to the mourning doves singing outside! It's great to be alive. After all, we could be sick and coffin ...
Ann Barrington, David R. Davis, Melissa Russell Deur, Patricia Holland, Kathryn Lay, Deborah J. Lightfoot, Martha Moore, Cecile Odell, Diane Roberts, and BJ Stone are the "Four Star Writers," authors of FOUR STAR FUNERALS: An Anthology About Death. This project began as therapy for a group of writers who met at the Four Star Coffee Bar. It grew into something much deeper.