Those of my readers interested in secret societies, or looking for a gift for someone who likes odd corners of history, may want to know about a new book of mine, just out from Sterling Publishing.
The Conspiracy Book is a history of secret societies in the Western world, told in a hundred historical vignettes. It's a quick read, not to mention a gorgeously illustrated hardback with the kind of attractive cover you don't get often these days -- if you've seen my earlier Sterling title
The Occult Book, this is the same sort of thing. Sterling is Barnes and Noble's house publisher, you can order copies
here, or pick one up at your local B&N if you've got one -- but don't tell anyone that you've read it. ;-)
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ecosophia
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Date: 2019-01-03 04:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-03 07:58 pm (UTC)OTOH, I know his location, but I will never tell!
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Date: 2019-01-04 04:21 am (UTC)Once many years ago at a science fiction convention in Seattle I had the good fortune to listen to L. Sprague de Camp talking about SF. "There has been," he said in his gorgeous patrician voice, "a great deal of talk down through the years about the 'big questions' of science fiction. In my opinion the truly 'big question' of science fiction is 'What is that woman in a bronze brassiere doing on the cover of MY BOOK???!!!'"
The same big question, or the close equivalent, has been asked by plenty of authors of occult nonfiction. At least I've never had the kind of cover that used to be de rigueur for occult paperbacks in my misspent youth, with a naked woman and a skull on the cover...
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Date: 2019-01-05 01:56 am (UTC)Just today I received in the mail a beautiful set of rainbow-colored books, which I have lined up along the top my desk. It's the 10-volume set of "The Archdruid Report," and I know they will get along famously with this new book of yours :-)
Katie
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Date: 2019-01-05 02:19 am (UTC)Delighted to hear about your new acquisition! I hope you find them as entertaining to read as they were to write.
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Date: 2019-01-05 02:40 am (UTC)I've been an ADR fan since the early days, so this will be a re-read for me. Actually, I'll be reading them with my teenage son, thereby introducing the next generation to your ideas. He's one of your biggest fans, you know!
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Date: 2019-01-06 03:28 pm (UTC)Similar to de Camp: the first Scottish dragon shapeshifter novels (...I know) had the dragons in question in Victorian England, dressed as one might in polite society for the time. This in no way stopped two of the three covers from featuring shirtless men with kilts and broadswords.
On the other hand, the checks cash, so I'm more amused than anything else.
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Date: 2019-01-05 07:19 am (UTC)There’s a bimbo on the cover of my book
There’s a bimbo on the cover of my book
She is blonde and she is sexy
She is nowhere in the text, she
Is the bimbo on the cover of my book.
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Date: 2019-01-05 07:54 pm (UTC)bimbos
Date: 2019-01-06 05:38 pm (UTC)Rita
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Date: 2019-01-04 09:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-01-04 06:37 pm (UTC)conspiracies
Date: 2019-01-04 07:35 pm (UTC)The book also described crafts workshops and outdoor concerts with colored lights above the orchestra--light shows before their time. I didn't realize it was theosophy at the time, I was only 12 and had never heard of theosophy. Then decades later I heard the book being discussed on Art Bell's radio program and scribbled down the title and author so I could reread it. Thats when I noticed Theosophy Society as the publisher.
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Date: 2019-01-05 01:11 am (UTC)Re: B & N
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