Ashley Poston

The Dead Romantics gives a ghostwriter of romance novels a dead father, a hometown funeral home she fled, and the ghost of her editor turning up on the porch.

Poston writes about grief with jokes running alongside it, which is harder than either alone. Geekerella came first and put Cinderella at a fan convention.

She has been open that the funeral home material comes from her own family, and the specific texture of a southern small town processing a death is where the book is strongest.