Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 67 – Episode with Taylor Ellwood and Lupa

2010
01.07

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2:49 Amazon.com’s removal of “Buy Now” buttons, amazon prime and super-saver shipping from print on demand services other than Amazon’s BookSurge service.
3:30 What is print-on-demand?
5:05 Why there are a lot of Pagan 101 books in mainstream bookstores
5:25 Print on demand allows for printing of books on niche topics
6:15 Why books are better than websites
6:45 What are small presses doing to counteract this situation?
7:45 Amazon.com has become a vertical monopoly
8:00 How small presses work
10:45 BookSurge is a low-quality print on demand service.
12:31 Immanion Press
12:50 Pop Culture Magic wasn’t published in the mainstream because it was “too controversial”
13:00 Immanion Press as a publisher of metaphysical books.
15:50 How Lupa and Taylor met through Immanion Press
16:00 Benefits of working with Immanion press
17:00 Are there editors and layout techs at Immanion Press?
18:00 There’s a lot of work to be done with publishing a book after a book is written
20:20 Tips for those looking to write a book
24:00 Tips for aspiring authors
25:35 Don’t go into self-publishing to avoiding the editing process
30:00 Your worth isn’t wrapped up in your work, separate your ego from your work
34:00 Editing for accuracy as well as writing style
36:55 Anthologies
38:45 Eco Shamanism and Lupa’s experiences on a Shamanic path
43:15 Plastic Shamans vs. white people genuinely following a shamanic calling
48:15 Adopted members of tribes
51:22 Authenticity
52:00 How Shamans confirm the authenticity of other Shamans
52:30 Being hypercritical is being more in tune with one’s own ego than how things actually are
52:55 Being part of mainstream America
58:00 The shaman path is a hard path to follow. Sometimes the spirits tell you to ask questions, and that alone offends people.