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I have just learned that the production process for “Loneliness and Revelation“, my fifth book, is now underway. I’m a little surprised to see that the official release day will be the 29th of October, 2010, which is 14 months from now. It’s not unusual for a book to need a year from submission of manuscript to availability on the market, but I was hoping it might be available in time for KG next year. Well, I can’t complain: I’m sure this date was selected to ensure the book gets into the fall and winter catalogues for that year. (There’s probably not enough time to get it into this year’s fall and winter catalogues.) Anyway, 29 October is two days before Samhain: an auspicious time of year, after all. And this way, I continue the trend of producing at least one new book in every even-numbered year since 2004.

I’ve also learned that the book has been assigned its ISBN number: 978-1-84694-355-3, and that it will be 160 pages long (short and sweet!), and will cost £ 10.99 in GBP, or $ 19.95 in USD.

We’ll be posting more info as it becomes available. In the meanwhile, I’m now well underway with writing the next book, tentatively entitled “Twenty-Two Sacred Relationships”. Here’s the table of contents so far:

1. Mind and body
2. Friends
3. Loving couples
4. Families
5. Elders
6. Rural landscapes
7. Urban landscapes
8. Hunters and animals
9. The Kitchen (i.e. people and the food we eat)
10. Storytellers
11. Musicians
12. Scholars and books
13. Teachers
14. Healers and patients
16. Soldiers
17. Sailors, Ships, and the Sea
18. Athletes
19. Leadership
20. Citizenship
21. The Market
22. Life and Death.

If you can think of anything that I should consider in each of these, or any other relationships I should include, let me know. I am hoping to be done a complete first draft by around winter solstice.

Ancient village found by archaeologists near Stonehenge

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070130.wstonehenge0130/BNStory/Science/home

In a related story, the Conservatives and the NDP ‘cut a deal’ on the Conservative climate change package:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070130.wparliament30/BNStory/National/

I read this one and asked myself, is there a room in the Centre Block that has a sign on it saying: “The Back Room. Secret Deal Makers Only. And No Smoking.”