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@johnisanauthor
Bf & I at the Knightsville Dam on the Westfield River (dam is behind his head in first pic. Good weather day today; probably the last hurrah for fall foliage around western MA, although there is more of it considering how much the rains had knocked down the first set of leaves.
Castel Savoia, Belvedere, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy
A double flying staircase! (no visible means of support). Magnificent!
Can't Even Fly Straight
25 posts!
John's Book & Writing Blog turned 1 today!
MY THREE BEST SELLING BOOKS - IT’S ALL IN THE CARDS: TAROT READING MADE EASY in both a desk reference size and a workbook format, and EVERY MAN’S TAROT: TAROT AND THE MALE EXPERIENCE.
The specifics about each book is contained under the separate listings. All my books are available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon.
IT’S ALL IN THE CARDS: TAROT READING MADE EASY - REFERENCE EDITION 6″ x 9″ -- REVISED WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS!
This is it - my best-selling book EVER! After my original publisher sold 12,000+ copies (for which I received 38 cents a copy in royalties), they decided to downsize and let my book go OOP. I was able to obtain the publishing rights and now have reproduced it by self-publishing it - and it is still my best-seller! This is a desk reference size - 6″ x 9″ - so it will fit easily on a shelf or in a drawer when you have to hide it when Aunt Bertha shows up! Buy a copy (HERE) and find out why this is still my best-selling book to teach beginners how to read Tarot cards!
Buy a copy of my Tarot deck HERE.
IT’S ALL IN THE CARDS: TAROT READING MADE EASY - WORKBOOK EDITION large-page format 8.5″ x 11″ -- REVISED WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS!
Note: the PAGES are large; this is NOT a large-print book.
The workbook is not available on Kindle.
This is the same book as the Reference edition - but in a large-page format for people that like to write notes in their borders.Purchase this version HERE.
Purchase a copy of my deck HERE.
EVERY MAN’S TAROT: TAROT AND THE MALE EXPERIENCE
Text revision September 2018
This Tarot book is much different from any other that you may have read. Most Tarot books are written by women for a female clientele - not this book! I took everything I knew from years of Tarot-reading experience and tossed it out the door and came back in through a window to write this book about life and experience from a man’s perspective. NO coy Victorian concepts of white knights bringing love tokens or men in tights with floppy hats with feathers! GONE! Written in the form of 78 essays, this book looks at the cards filtered by what it is to be a man in the 21st century. A LOT of women buy this book! Available from Amazon by clicking HERE.
Buy the specially-designed deck used to illustrate this book HERE.
EXPANDING THE MAJOR ARCANA: TAROT, NUMEROLOGY, AND YOUR LIFE NUMBERS
Tarot and Numerology overlap at times. If you are into Tarot or Numerology, you might be interested in finding out what your Life Numbers is all about. The shortcoming is that there are not enough cards in the Major Arcana to give everyone a separate Life, Personality, and Shadow card - so I created six new cards to complete the set!. The book is available from Amazon here.
The theories set forth in this book will only work with the deck of cards created specifically for this exercise, available for purchase here. This is a MAJORS-ONLY DECK. If you are interested in reading with a standard Tarot deck, please purchase one of my Everyman Tarot editions instead, here.
THE JOCK QUILT PROJECT - A ‘HOW-TO’ BOOK
I was a quilter for many years and one day decided that there needed to be an ‘antithesis quilt’ to all the Sunbonnet Sues and other feminine-themed quilts out there. What was the most masculine thing I could think of? A Jockstrap - and thus the Jock Quilt Project was born! This ‘how-to manual’ details the process of what I did to make a quilt and two wall hangings, and gives you information on how to make a jock quilt for yourself! The quilt and one wall hanging are now part of the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art in NYC. Purchase from Amazon here.
THE QUILT PROJECT: MY QUILTS AND QUILTING 1975-1986
Lots of pictures! I made quilts as part of the American Revolution Bicentennial. In this book are documented quilts, wall hangings, quilted hoops, quilted jackets, and anything else that I quilted and photographed. One quilt and several quilted pieces are in the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a quilt and a wall hanging are in the Leslie-Lohman Museum in NYC! A great gift for someone who quilts or appreciates quilts. Available in paperback or Kindle format on Amazon by clicking here.
A word about Amazon pricing
None of my books should cost you more than $14-$15.* If you follow a link and are hit with an outrageous price on Amazon, chances are you have been connected through a third-party retailer and that is THEIR price, not my publisher’s price, and should not be the Amazon price. If you find this, go into your browser to Amazon.com directly and look for the best price. Amazon pays very low royalty payments, so if you pay $46 for a $14 book, all that profit goes to the seller - NOT TO THE AUTHOR.
*EXCEPTION - The Quilt Project is $20 because of all the color pictures - which add to the printing cost!
A BEARS’S GUIDE TO THE TAROT - Revised Edition
NEWLY REVISED! A tweaked version of IT’S ALL IN THE CARDS written for the Bear Community. Authored by Harry Vederchi and illustrated by Yours Truly (who also posed for the cover)! Available in paperback from Amazon - click HERE. This is the old cover since the new one does not meet tumblr guidelines (no bare-chested men allowed).
Buy the Bear Edition deck from The Game Crafter HERE.
MY FATHER’S WORLD WAR TWO DIARY
A transcript of the diary my father kept while stationed in Hawaii at the close of WW II. SPOILER ALERT: There are no secret missions, spy plots, intrigues, or unknown war battles history revealed here - just a diary of a sailor detailing his mail, movies watched, and beer consumed. This book was transcribed as a gift to members of my family. Contains old photos of friends and old girlfriends he wrote to - long before he ever met my mother. A very slim paperback. Available click here.
MEMORIES OF MARIO; TEN YEARS OF COMPANIONSHIP
Mario occupied ten years of my life, and when a surprise illness left him dead in 8 weeks, I was devastated. This book chronicles ten years of a loving, monogamous gay relationship, long before same-gender marriages were even conceived of. LGBTQ oriented. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Chapter on LGBTQ and marriage equality recently updated. Available on Amazon click here.
FOR MY MOTHER - Cross-Stitching & Art
When I began stitching this Christmas piece for my Mother, I ended up giving her a picture of the piece and telling her -”this is what you will get next year as a gift” To complete the piece only took eight weeks - 15 years later! After Life got in my way I started (again!) to finish the piece at last.When I was about one-day away from completing the last section, my Mother suffered a stroke and ended up in the hospital. Doing well, she went to rehab, but suffered a second stroke that put her into a coma from which she never recovered, and never lived to see the piece finished. I added the legend ‘For My Mother’ into one corner of it. Available in paperback and on Kindle - click here.
