Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just a few minutes to midnight, so we can launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.1 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left was my twentieth published book, The Ecotechnic Future. By this time my blog "The Archdruid Report" had been appearing weekly for a couple of years and was making an unexpected (to me) splash in the peak oil scene. Initial sales on my first peak oil book, The Long Descent, were good enough that the publisher was interested in a second volume, and of course I was perfectly willing to oblige. The Ecotechnic Future was my first attempt to put the decline and fall of industrial civilization into its broader context and talk about human history on the grand scale; to my mind, it stands up very well after all these years.

This was also, however, the first book of mine I had to put up a sustained fight to get through the editing process intac.  The editor wasn't satisfied with correcting my grammar and the like, which I'm fine with -- he tried to insist that I should rewrite the book to say what he thought it should say, not what I was trying to say. Maybe it was that I was contradicting the conventional wisdom too obviously, maybe it was something else, but for a decade or so from 2007 or so on, I had to deal with repeated attempts of this kind, and not just from one publisher, either. Fortunately I was able to push back hard, but it ended up causing me to change publishers more than once.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed -- as in, no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***