Being the author, publisher, and general Prime Mover behind MYSTERIOUS
CALIFORNIA, I guess it's my turn to step in...
Joy's description of the book was fairly accurate, even if she was way off
in describing my own level of celebrity, reasons for moving North, and
post-LA lifestyle (if anything, my life has gotten LESS QUIET since I
relocated to Oaktown nine years ago.) MYSTERIOUS CALIFORNIA really
anticipated the X-FILES and the whole paranormal-paranoiac Nineties
alt-culture, although it confined its concerns to Golden State weirdness. A
sort of *Fodor's Guide from Another Dimension*, it described places of
bizarre phenomena and circumstance across our fair state: haunted houses,
Bigfoot lairs, UFO "windows," cult centers, monster-inhabited lakes,
scientific anomalies, and the like.
MYSTERIOUS CALIFORNIA was great fun to research and write, and I got a very
thorough education in entrepreneurship and self-promotion by publishing it
under my own imprint. The book went through three printings and sold nearly
10,000 copies. It's technically out of print now, but don't pay no
half-yard to some Half.com greedhead; if you REALLY want to read it, I have
a few leftovers lying around here, and can send you a PERSONALLY SIGNED copy
of this rarity for a mere ten bucks. Or if you're a cheapskate, ask to
borrow John's copy.
These days, I've found that it's a lot easier and more profitable to sell
other people's creative output than produce my own, so I don't anticipate
any prose more substantial than ad copy emerging from my bent little brain
any time soon.
Mike
> Bigfoot? I don't remember any Bigfoot.
>
>
> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_y..., "toughslush" <meurtre_at_e...>
> wrote:
> > > what is this book about guys? i'm intrigued....
> > > Sharose
> >
> > It isn't a book about guys at all ;)
> >
> > It's a book about ghosts (and Bigfoot, and a few other X-filesish
> > things).
> >
> > It was written by a famous scholar of the paranormal, who--tired
> > of getting mobbed everywhere he went by his fans--retired to live
> > the quiet life of a bibliophile trader in Northern (yet Mysterious)
> > California.
> >
> > --Q.M.
> > am I in trouble again?
>
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