A SkeleTalk With Author Kathy Benjamin

In this week’s episode the Britt and Alissa sit down for a SkeleTalk with Kathy Benjamin, an Austin author who really puts the 'fun' in funeral. Her book It’s Your Funeral! How to plan the Celebration of a Lifetime (available here ) uses fascinating facts, amusing anecdotes and witty worksheets to make planning your finale a genuinely enjoyable experience. If you want to tell Kathy your funeral plans you can send them to her Twitter account!Kathy Benjamin has worked as a writer and editor since 2009 for major sites including MentalFloss.com and ‪Cracked.com. She is currently a writer and editor for ‪Grunge.com. Offline, she’s contributed articles to mental_floss magazine and Reader’s Digest. Her specialties are history,  royalty,  Christianity, and death, but always with a dash of funny.In 2013, Kathy wrote Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever (Adams Media). She also contributed to Cracked.com’s publication The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Plume, 2013). Kathy has turned her hand to fiction with the recently completed Area 54, a humorous science fiction novel about disco, drugs, and aliens. She has also written four children's books, which are about absolutely none of those things.She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Simon, and her dog, Briscoe.As always, thanks for listening and Haunt Ya Later!If you want you have a true tale of the strange, unusual or paranormal you’d like us to read on the podcast you can send it to the SkeleTales Hotbox at [email protected] the showRemember to share the podcast with friends and we want to hear your stories! Please e-mail them to us at [email protected] or leave a message at 302-689-DEAD (3323).Subscribe to our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/@skeletalespod Join our SkeleTeam over at Patreon here: www.patreon.com/Skeletalespodcast Buy some haunted shit over at www.skeletalespodcast.etsy.comAs always thanks for listening and Haunt Y’all Later!