Dear readers!
If you’ll excuse me for a moment, I’d like to offer a quick personal update and recommendation. This is non-Star Wars related. It’s a Substack side quest. So if you’re dedicated to a pure Star Wars-only experience with Ahch-To Baby, feel free to skip this one!
Still here?
Thanks!
Here goes:
My staggeringly talented spouse, Pam Grossman, has a new book coming out on Tuesday and I want to tell you all about it.
It’s called Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path To Creativity. It’s about the relationship between making magic and making art, and it’s a kind of reverie and guide for engaging with the unseen and allowing it to inform your creative pursuits. It’s like The Artists Way, in a way, an inspirational exploration of being a Maker. (“Thank the Maker!”)
I think everyone who loves Star Wars has a relationship with the unseen, the creative, and the mythological. Maybe you’re a writer. Maybe you make music. Maybe you’re a coder or web designer. Maybe you’re an architect. Maybe you just love thinking about how stories are written and generated. Maybe you work a job you don’t feel is very creative, so when you get off of work, you love taking a step into a Larger World. If so, I really think this book is for you. It’s for everyone, really.
Pam is a noted Pagan and witch. She’s the host of the popular podcast The Witch Wave. (You can find it on YouTube here.) Her last book, Waking The Witch, is a well-read and well-received look at the witch in society and what it says about our relationship with women and feminine archetypes. She also co-edited Taschen’s beautiful tome Witchcraft as a part of the Library of Esoterica. I am biased, of course, but I’m not the only person on Earth that thinks Pam is brilliant. She’s honestly a genius, especially at connecting strands and finding the magical in the world. And she’s a fantastic writer.
The book comes out on Tuesday Oct 14th in the US and the UK, and will have an audiobook that’s released same-day as well. If you think “Hey this sounds cool!” and you plan on getting a copy, I’d ask you to pre-order. Pre-orders are a great way to give a book a running start. Publishers care about them, and so do algorithms, so if you want to support her the best way, that’s how.
You can pre-order at any of the links found here.
Pam’s also got some book launch events coming up (and more on the way) if you want to check this out in person. (I’ll be there too!) You can check out the Events page on Pam’s website for all the details. (First up, Tuesday book launch in Alphabet City in NYC.)
Thanks for reading, supporting, and pre-ordering Pam’s book!
May the Creative Force be with you!