LOL, now I know what to write about next time!

“Was there ever an era of 6-figure book deals? If there was, it most definitely by-passed me!”

Sorry, a bit off-topic, but I had to post this in light of Nick’s comment. This from The Bookseller:

“Grand Central Publishing, the company previously known as Warner Books, has spent approximately USD 1.25 million for the story of Dewey, a rescued cat who lived in a library in Iowa for 19 years.”

So there it is. Forget aliens, CIA secret experiments, etc. Be on the lookout for a good cat story.

Kind regards,
Greg

Greg: not trying to hijack this thread (or any aircraft) but you know I feel very passionately about September 11th. And while I don’t think it’s the singular cause of what some perceive as a shift away from UFO publishing I think it definitely has a lot to do with it.

Paul: I respect your UFO efforts very much and … for the record, I own the 911 Omision, er, Commission report and have read parts of it and it is a whitewash of that days events and the issues surrounding it. Of much more value are the following:

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley

The Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11 by Jeff Wells of Rigorous Intuition

Now … back to your regularly scheduled debate about UFOs (”Unrecognized Fascist Observatories” - John Judge - parapolitical researcher)

SMiles

I don’t know how things are up in Canadamerica, but the ‘new-age/paranormal’ section of bookstores in my area, let alone bookstores themselves, has greatly dwindled from ‘the golden age’ of the 90’s.

Greg:

What’s even weirder is to discover the roots of the Spanish Inquisition lay in Kaballah!

-Jason

As for the media and UFOs, its cyclical, as has been suggested. But I don’t think it’s 9/11 that’s been driving the downward trend - go to your local mass market bookstore and compare the number of books you’ll find on Wicca, Tarot and other New Age stuff, to serious tomes about UFOs. People interested in the paranormal have turned their attention elsewhere. Someday they’ll probably come back, especially if there’s a major “event” or, more likely, another show like “The X-Files”.

Paul

I didn’t make it to the first conference which went on despite the tragedy but I did make it to the second and wrote up a review of it for the upstart newspaper I was editing then (Austin Para Times #5 - From the (East Texas) Wilderness: “Living-n-Breathing Bigfoot - 24 hours in East Texas” or “Bigfoot Ate My Conference Notes” - 2nd Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference, October 12th 2002, Jefferson, Texas). Craig and company put on a most excellent event - it was my first Cryptozoology conference and it fantastic. It was the first time I finally got to meet Loren face to face.

And yes mulder4truth, I’d have to put PROJECT BETA and BODYSNATCHERS IN THE DESERT as two of the best post 911 UFO books to have been published to date.

SMiles