By Frank DeMarco
Monty Joynes is a talented guy, and he has done many things in his crowded life, including stints as a consumer magazine editor (Holiday magazine, among others); entrepreneurship with his own business, movie script writer, and author of two books of “Making of the film” variety for Hampton Roads. But my favorite of his achievements is the series of novels he calls the Booker series.
The four novels came in a continuing stream and were published one-two-three-four in successive years, like so:
Naked Into The Night (1997)
Lost In Las Vegas (1998)
Save the Good Seed (1999)
Dead Water Rites (2000)
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By Frank DeMarco
Each year at INATS-West (International New Age Trade Show in Denver CO),
COVR selects winners from the best products in our industry. The Visionary Awards are judged by retailers and seasoned professionals who evaluate each title based upon content, presentation, and their own knowledge of the industry. This year, The Magic Mirror, by John Nelson, won both “Book of the Year” and “Best Books - Divination”
COVR describes its winners as “a guide to what best represents metaphysical, mind/body/spirit books, music, and products with positive energy and flair.”
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By Frank DeMarco
The Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration is my kind of journal, as it is my kind of society. The Chaos Point, by Dr. Ervin Laszlo, was one of the last books I edited for Hampton Roads. This review explains why it is a hopeful book, and a helpful one.
Journal of Scientific Exploration
Book Reviews p. 269
The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads, by Ervin Laszlo. Charlottesville, V A: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., 2006, 175 pp. Paper: $16.95.
This is an inspirational book, a call for action, and a basis for hope. We have entered a window of opportunity that the author brilliantly illustrates using the concepts of chaos theory. Dr. Ervin Laszlo is a unique scientist who founded systems philosophy and general evolution theory. But he is also the founder and president of the Club of Budapest, an informal association of highly creative people who use their insight to enhance awareness of global problems and human opportunities.
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By Frank DeMarco
Shamans in conversation
(I know it looks like it ought to be shamen, but trust me, shamans is correct.)
Suppose you could sit down with nearly two dozen contemporary shamans, and ask them anything you liked. Suppose further that you yourself knew enough to ask the right questions. And-one more supposition-suppose that the only way you could talk to these shamans was one at a time.
Welcome to Traveling Between The Worlds: Conversations with Contemporary Shamans, by Hillary S. Webb.
And such shamans! Among others, Sandra Ingerman. Serge Kahili King. John Perkins. Ken Eagle Feather. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Hank Wesselman. Brooke Medicine Eagle.
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By Frank DeMarco
“This is perhaps the most important book Hampton Roads will ever publish,” I said.
Strong words. I’m still not sure they weren’t true.
Clearly, it wasn’t the most profitable book, or the most successful. Yet our publishing The Division of Consciousness encouraged Peter Novak to write two more books, The Lost Secret of Death, and Original Christianity. For that alone it would have been worthwhile to publish it. But as I say, I’m still not sure that it wouldn’t be true to say that The Division of Consciousness may not be the most important book Hampton Roads will ever publish.
That requires some explanation, given that the author remains little known, and that among our other titles are Neale Walsch’s worldwide best-selling Conversations with God books. But I’m not talking, here, about immediate impact. I’m talking about the inherent value of the thought enclosed in covers. Many people will find their lives changed by this book, many of them second-hand, without ever reading it, as its content percolates through the culture.
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By Frank DeMarco
Paul Krugman is one of the more intelligent columnists. This was an op-ed piece in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/opinion/06krugman.html….
Bits, Bands and Books
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: June 6, 2008
Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything.
Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New Economy companies, it turned out, were better at promoting their images than at making money — although some of them did pioneer new forms of accounting fraud. After that came the oil shock and the food shock, grim reminders that we’re still living in a material world.
So much, then, for the digital revolution? Not so fast. The predictions of ’90s technology gurus are coming true more slowly than enthusiasts expected — but the future they envisioned is still on the march.
In 1994, one of those gurus, Esther Dyson, made a striking prediction: that the ease with which digital content can be copied and disseminated would eventually force businesses to sell the results of creative activity cheaply, or even give it away. Whatever the product — software, books, music, movies — the cost of creation would have to be recouped indirectly: businesses would have to “distribute intellectual property free in order to sell services and relationships.â€
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By Frank DeMarco
“This is perhaps the most important book Hampton Roads will ever publish,” I said. I said it in meetings, and wrote it in the newsetter I edited at the time.
Strong words. I’m still not sure they weren’t true.
Clearly, it wasn’t the most profitable book, or the most successful. Yet our publishing The Division of Consciousness encouraged Peter Novak to write two more books, The Lost Secret of Death and Original Christianity. For that alone it would have been worthwhile to publish it. But as I say, I’m still not sure that it wouldn’t be true to say that The Division of Consciousness may not be the most important book Hampton Roads will ever publish.
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By Frank DeMarco
Now here is something cool, URL provided by a friend. It has nothing to do with books or Hampton Roads, but you may be interested regardless.
http://www.popsci.com/aeros/article/2006-02/flying-luxury-hotel
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By Frank DeMarco
I have written here about George Ritchie, most recently when he died last year. A friend who subscribes to the Association for Research and Enlightenment’s Venture Inward magazine sent me this recent article by Sandra Martin, who for a while was my literary agent.
http://are-cayce.org/members/venture_inward/03042008/pdf/snakes030408.pdf
The book mentioned in this article, Ordered to Return, we originally published under the title My Life After Dying. It is still in print, and it is very much worth reading. Reading the manuscript changed my life right away, and was the beginning of many changes still in progress. It may well do the same for you.
Frank
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