Dustings #116

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The book can be purchased here. A free sample of the book can be found here.

I have to be honest and say that I didn’t enjoy this book.

I mean… I haven’t read it yet. So that’s why I didn’t enjoy it. I’m sure I likely will enjoy it. But I didn’t yet. Like you didn’t enjoy a pizza you haven’t eaten yet. Is this confusing?

I didn’t enjoy Gone With the Wind either, because I haven’t watched it yet.

So Oliver Meech’s new book is the Gone With the Wind of magic books.

(In the sense that I’ve yet to experience either.)

Wait, let me put it like this…

In the late 2000s, Oliver Meech released two books The Plot Thickens and Plot Twists. I enjoyed those books so much that 15 years later, he was one of the people I reached out to for the Christmas party, despite the fact he hadn’t really released anything to the magic community for over a decade. That’s how much the thinking behind those books stuck with me.

So that’s why I recommend checking out his new book, despite the fact that it has brought me no joy.

(yet)

The power of working with a wingman (wingmom)

I have to take a drastic step and douche out my folder of emails I have that I intended to respond to on the site. It’s grown to hundreds and it’s just overwhelming me now.

So if you ever wrote me, and I responded, “I’ll answer that on the site at some point,” I’m probably not going to unless you re-send me the question.

Usually when people write me and I say I’ll answer on the site it’s because:

A) I think I have something that might be of interest to share with a wider audience.

or

B) I think I’m close to having something that might be of interest to share with a wider audience.

But what sometimes happens is I forget that thing I thought might be interesting to share or that thing never develops in the first place.

And that’s how I end up with a folder of hundreds of emails that I told people I might respond to.

I’m going to nuke that folder and start again fresh. Certainly feel free to resubmit your question if you want to, and I’ll try to do a better job of following up with you.