Reimagining Death: A Conversation About My Book

By Lucinda Herring
 
I almost missed the email that day. Luckily the words “exploring a book project” caught my eye. I had been writing a book over many years about my mother’s remarkable death and home funeral on our family land in Alabama, but I had put it down after a disappointing journey with an agent/publisher. And life happened; I got the opportunity to become a licensed funeral director, to strengthen the work I was already doing as a home funeral and green burial guide, and that work became all consuming.  I answered the email from Tim McKee of North Atlantic Books right away, and the rest is history.

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