It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been several weeks of silence here, due to more chaos than usual in our lives. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s been going on. I went out to California to attend a Pagan academic conference (the first I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever been invited to) and back out again to attend PantheaCon, the largest Pagan Convention on the Left Coast\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith some 2,000+ attendees and staff! While I was there I had the mind-bending experience of meeting folks I hadn’t seen in over twenty years\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmost of whom I managed to recognize after a while…<\/p>\n
Royalty checks and advances, plus Phae\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sales commissions and bonuses have enabled us to catch up with all our current bills\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe finally own Phae\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car free and clear! Now we can start paying off all our other long term loans…<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busy doing copy-edits on my forty-years-in-the-writing Druidism book, Bonewits\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Essential Guide to Druidism,<\/i> which will be out in August 2006. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also been doing promo and booksignings for my recently published The Pagan Man<\/i> and Bonewits\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca,<\/i> both of which seem to be selling briskly. For details on these and other titles, you can visit my Books page.<\/a><\/p>\n I just spent an hour adding links to my MP3s page<\/a> on all my song lyric pages. Now I’m wishing that I knew how to make a PayPal shopping cart for my MP3s, because PayPal’s minimum 33 cent charge on every $1 sale means I lose a third of my income from those MP3s, not to mention buyers getting tired of having to repeat the buying process over and over again… Is there anyone out there who could code it for me?<\/p>\n The news has been sparking lots of ideas for political entries here, which I hope to get to in a week when the BEGD<\/i> copy-edits are done. Then Phae and I will be starting the writing on a brand new book: Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, and Substances to Heal, Change, and Grow,<\/i> which will be published in 2007 by New Page.<\/p>\n Simultaneously, I’ll be working on my mainstream political book on the pernicious influences of gnostic dualism in American culture.<\/p>\n Oh, and I’m also taking steps to plant an ADF grove here in Rockland County, NY.<\/p>\n That should keep me busy for a while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been several weeks of silence here, due to more chaos than usual in our lives. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s been going on. Continue reading