Three Books Available for Preorder

[ecosophia]

Since so many of us are spending long hours at home these days, waiting for the coronavirus to finish up its fifteen minutes of fame, I'm pleased to say that there's some new reading material forthcoming. First of all, I'm delighted to announce that Love In The Ruins, the world's first anthology of deindustrial romance stories, is now available for preorder. Admit it, you've always wanted to read heartwarming stories of true love in the midst of a collapsing industrial civilization, and here's your chance. Readers of the After Oil series will recognize many of the authors of these tales, by the way; like the volumes in that series, it's another fine collection of short pieces about the future we're actually going to get -- this time, with romantic music playing in the background. 

Second, I'm very pleased to say that one of the books I consider my best work is going into print again in a new, updated, and revised edition. Inside a Magical Lodge remains the only significant book in print on the traditional lodge system, the toolkit of social and ritual organization shared by fraternal lodges such as the Masons and the Elks, on the one hand, and magical lodges such as the Golden Dawn and the Martinists on the other. This is a how-to volume, not simply a history or an overview, and it's set up to show readers how to participate in a magical lodge -- or design and start one from scratch. You can preorder a copy here. 

Finally, the third and (for the time being) last volume of my collected short essays and talks, Beyond the Narratives, is also available for preorder. Like the two older volumes, A Magical Education and The City of Hermes, this one covers a very diverse range of themes and subjects -- Druidry, Jungian psychology, magic, politics, history, warfare, and of course the future of industrial society. Just the thing to fill all those hours of free time you weren't expecting to have...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Can I ask why Llewellyn dropped some of your books? Is this part of the New Age decline in sales? Not that you are New Age bykwim?

[ecosophia]

They didn't bother to explain; I was just informed that several of my books, including one that they'd kept in print for 25 years, were being dumped from their backlist on next to no notice. Fortunately Aeon Books snapped them up, and I had the chance to correct some mistakes and bring out new editions with better cover art. (I managed to avoid getting a standard Llewellyn "Barbie on a Broomstick" cover, but some of my Llewellyn covers were pretty lame...)