Magic Monday

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Midnight is almost here, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.2 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.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

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.  This was my fifty-seventh published book, and we're still in tentacle territory. A Voyage to Hyperborea started out as the sixth volume of The Weird of Hali -- that was originally going to be The Weird of Hali: Hyperborea -- but after two complete drafts and four more partial attempts it became clear to me that there was too much story to fit within the series, so I sent Justin Martense and Belinda Marsh to the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn instead, and found a new set of characters to journey to Greenland and plunge into a tale of love, adventure, and loss among the ruins of preglacial Hyperborea. It's the longest of my tentacle novels -- with the exception of Star's Reach, the longest of all my novels so far -- and a good lively romp; it also has the most relentlessly ordinary of my protagonists; despite his Deep One ancestry and his more or less successful struggle to rise to the challenge of the adventure into which he's caught up, Toby Gilman is basically a dweeb. Putting ordinary characters in extraordinary situations is what I do. If you're interested, a copy of the new Sphinx Books edition can be had here if you're in the US and here elsewhere.

(Of all my books, this one -- not, surprisingly, the two shoggoth novels with their composer heroine -- is the one most influenced by a specific piece of music. Listen sometime to the Prelude to Richard Wagner's opera Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) -- it's the sound track to this novel.)

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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.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no more comments will be put through. See you next week!***