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Deborah Burst

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Born

in New Orleans, The United States

Website

http://www.deborahburst.com

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Genre

History, Travel, Mystery

Influences

Anne Rice, Truman Capote, Annie Dillard, Christopher Rice, Dave Eggers ...more

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April 2015

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I love getting lost inside old cemeteries, just me and my camera exploring every headstone and every cracked crevice. And I love the drama of thunderstorms as they slowly crawl across the graveyards...yes, I'm a confessed taphophile, a lover of cemeteries with a passion in photographing and writing about historic churches and their cemeteries.

It is here inside these gothic abodes that the dead continue their story. The funerary architecture brings to life the religious and artistic history from New Orleans to the haunting bayous across southeast Louisiana. It's a ghoulish art exhibit with shadowed headstones sharing epitaphs of beloved children, prominent aristocrats and fallen war heroes.

My book, Louisiana's Sacred Places: Churches, Cemet

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Average rating: 4.11 · 45 ratings · 17 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Louisiana's Sacred Places: Churches, Cemeteries and Voodoo 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hallowed Halls of Greater New Orleans: Historic Churches, Cathedrals and Sanctuaries 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spirits of the Bayou: Sanctuaries, Cemeteries and Hauntings (Sacred Places Book 2) by Deborah Burst (Goodreads Author), Deborah Burst (Goodreads Author) (Photographer), Billy Fountain (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Fried and Sanctified: Tales from the Back Deck 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystical World of Trees: They Love, Nurture and Communicate it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Fried & Sanctified: Tales From The Backdeck (Sacred Places Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hallowed Halls of Greater New Orleans: Historic Churches, Cathedrals and Sanctuaries by Deborah Burst (Goodreads Author), Anne Rice (foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Pioneer Magazine Winter 2021 by Nino Bosaz, Jill J Easton, Jeffrey Miller (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Newbie author self-publishing checklist

This is the third post in my educational series, Self-Publishing 101. Perhaps one of the most overwhelming issues in publishing a book is where to start. Most don’t know what questions to ask because they don’t know enough to ask. Hopefully my lessons will help you find your way.

And please if you have any questions, you’re welcome to leave a comment.

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