Book review contest: Yes, it’s bribery
In case you didn’t catch it in my most recent mailing, on Facebook, or on Twitter, I’m running a promotion in a gesture of blatant bribery to encourage reviews of my new book The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE, read the details on this page! …
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Retrograde Planets Excerpt from EG to Practical Astrology at Skywriter
Donna Cunningham is one of my favorite astrologers. Her books – especially “Healing Pluto Problems” and “Being a Lunar Type in a Solar World” – had a huge influence on me when I began studying astrology seriously and preparing to go pro. Her blog, Sky Writer, is a marvel – …
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Errata: Essential Guide to Practical Astrology
You know, I’m fairly proud of my book The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology. On the other hand, it was written at a feverish pace and edited faster than my feeble brain could cogitate. When you’re working at that speed, mistakes get made. Errors of oversight are committed, bizarre leaps of logic, dubious grammar. I’ve started this post to record such boners for posterity….
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How to Write an Astrology Book in 11 Weeks
I just finished writing a 400-page astrology book in eleven weeks. I did it without collaborators or ghost writers, and while I managed to recycle a limited amount of material from my archives, it didn’t amount to much. Still, I met my terrifyingly tight deadline on time, sanity more or less intact. Here’s how to replicate my feat.
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Intermission.
Yesterday I turned in the first half of my manuscript. Despite the insane deadline, writing this book is going far more smoothly than the first; I’ve already written a portion equivalent to the entire length of my first book, and in a third the time. Yet when I handed over …
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Why yes, I *am* crazy, thank you.
I’m writing another book. Because yes, I am that crazy, thank you. I have until October 22 to write about 350 pages. Of which I’ve completed about 50 so far. See? Crazy….
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Give Star Guide to Weddings this bridal season!
The air is filled with the alluring aromas of Jordan almonds, roses, and fondant: it must be wedding season! With all due modesty, may I suggest my book, Star Guide to Weddings, as the perfect gift for a jittery bride, a desultory groom, a vixenish bridesmaid, a skittish groomsman? It’s …
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“Kill! Crush! Destroy!” – and, a book giveaway!
A free copy of my book Star Guide to Weddings to the first commenter who (a) correctly identifies the original source of the quotation in the title of this post – AND (b) can correctly identify the transit-to-natal aspect that’s making me want to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting populace …
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Kind words
There’s more I could say about this – how it came on the heels of a long, Saturn/Midheaven siege of profound self-doubt, and just one day after an exhilarating epiphany (as tr. Venus and Pluto aspected my natal Venus) about personal worth and validation – but for now, here’s a …
Read MoreI don’t do windows.
On Saturday afternoon, in the middle of the first witheringly hot weekend of the summer, I dutifully donned a demure pink blouse and presented myself at a Borders store in Carlsbad for what my publicist obliquely referred to as “an event.” Having never done one of these things I had …
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