Somebody please tell me this doesn’t mean what I think it means:
Ursula James’s THE SOURCE, part fable, part spell-book, an inspirational work that contains prophecies of relationships, love, forgiveness, and healing from Mother Shipton, a 16th century Yorkshire prophetess and healer, as channeled by the author. . . sold to Tarcher publishing and Preface publishing, as reported this week by Publisher’s Marketplace under “NONFICTION: Advice/Relationships.”
Oh, dear God. You see, this is what happens when religions are on the wane; people start believing in all sorts of nonsense. Must put “buy Fordyce’s Sermons” on my to-do list.
That is very scary. VERY.
*palm to face*
I just hope all of you realize: THIS IS YOUR COMPETITION. So if you can’t get an agent’s ear or your agent can’t get a publisher’s ear . .do not give yourself too much of a complex over it. This industry is freaky.
Allright now. Maybe we can’t all agree on what makes a great book, but I’m having a vision – no, wait, I could be channeling, yes, it’s Mother Shipton – she’s saying that all the spells are backwards in “The Source” and wait a minute, it’s getting fuzzy, that the publisher will never have her love or forgiveness.
She’s telling me it’s a bad book!
From what I’ve read, channeling is dangerous as the person receiving the information has no guarantee that the entity from whom they are receiving it from is real, a figment of their imagination, or a demon or an errant spirit. New Age and Self-Help along these lines are best stayed away from.