Enjoy the current issue of bestselling & internationally acclaimed author Sol Luckman’s irregular newsletter, Crow Rising News & Notes.
Crow Rising News & Notes
September, 2008
“Back the Book!” * Sneak Peek of Book IV * Global Potentiation Day & More!
Dear Reader,
I have a lot of exciting news to share in this update and will jump right to it!
Jack Kerouac & Me
I was recently surprised to learn that a quote from my first novel Beginner's Luke was included in the “Sunbeams” section of the popular The Sun magazine devoted to arts and culture—under a quote by a literary hero of mine, Jack Kerouac, no less! You can check out this “feel-good” serendipity at http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/393/sunbeams.
Of Interest to Writers & Readers
Also recently, I just learned something from a fellow writer that may be of real interest both to readers and writers.
For readers, HarperCollins of London has created an online community called Authonomy that is “much more than a community of book lovers.” For writers, and directly benefiting readers in search of new voices, Authonomy is “on a mission to flush out the brightest, freshest new writing talent around.”
If this is of interest to you, by way of exploring Authonomy, please check out the listing for Beginner's Luke, described by Apex Reviews as “a mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” at http://authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1647.
“Journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast” (Apex Reviews).
Back the Book!
If you register on Authonomy (which is free and simple to do), you’re eligible to “Back the Book” by clicking on this option at the right of Beginner's Luke’s webpage. This will put Beginner's Luke on your bookshelf. With Beginner's Luke (or your own book!) on enough people’s bookshelves, HarperCollins will consider the book for publication.
Beginner's Luke has already transcended the dreaded “slush pile” once before. In 2005 a respected New York publisher, whose authors feature a National Book Award finalist in addition to dozens of prestigious award winners, made an offer for the six-volume Beginner's Luke Series, which was selected out of nearly 8,000 manuscripts. Having declined this offer in favor of an experiment in self-publishing that has yielded thousands of online readers for the first three books of the Series, I’m now willing to begin considering additional offers. What better way than to do so from a position of strength, with a show of popular support?
Sneak Peek of Book IV
What happens when you forget who you really are, and begin the bittersweet process of awakening? If you’re intuitively drawn to Luke in Exile, the ultimate Wanderer novel, then, having forgotten, you probably ARE in the process of awakening! Fans of the Beginner's Luke Series can preview Book IV today at http://www.scribd.com/doc/5507464/Luke-in-Exile-Book-IV-of-the-Begi....
Global Potentiation Day
You are warmly invited to participate in the upcoming Global Potentiation Day Thursday, November 13, 2008, at 6:00 PM Eastern (New York) time. If you (or someone you know) have a genuine interest in experiencing the “revolutionary healing science” (Nexus) of Potentiation Electromagnetic Repatterning at no cost and from anywhere, please visit http://www.phoenixregenetics.org/global.html for information and registration.
FREE! Global Potentiation Day: November 13, 2008
Thanks for flying high with Crow Rising Transformational Media today!
Sol
“Be willing to walk your talk, speak your truth, know your life’s mission, and balance past, present, and future in the now,” we read of Crow in Medicine Cards. “Shape-shift that old reality and become your future self. Allow the bending of physical laws to aid in creating the shape-shifted world of peace.”