My previous post Apropos of Appropriation, also published on The Tattooed Buddha as Nobody Own the Word Shaman: Notes From A Middle Class White Man, has now been re-published in the UK Mag Sacred Hoop as "Cultural Appropriation and the 'S' Word." Below are some screenshot samples of the article, but if you would like to read the full thing please go to http://www.sacredhoop.org/ and purchase the full issue, or even buy a subscription! It's a great publication!




Pages 30 and 31 on http://www.sacredhoop.org/. 


A big thank you to Nicholas Breeze Wood for editorial help!

The latest issue of Indie Shaman came out in the UK today and my article "Shamanic Reality" is one of the features! Indie Shaman is a great magazine that has been around for quite a few years. They are actually the first hard-copy publications that ever accepted one of my submissions. Thank to everyone at Indie Shaman for your support and the great work you do!

You can get a copy of the magazine here: http://www.indieshaman.co.uk/shamanic-magazine.html

Or, read "Shamanic Reality" in two parts here: http://www.danielmoler.com/p/mesa-threads.html

My new book, Machine Elves 101, was released today by Evolver Editions! Machine Elves 101 (Or, Why Terence McKenna Matters) is the first comprehensive introduction into the life and works of Terence McKenna in print!

You can read an excerpt on Reality Sandwich.com here. And purchase it here. 

A big thanks to Ken Jordan at Evolver for all of your assistance and guidance during the publishing effort! I would also like to thank Dennis McKenna for his time and amazing contribution, as well as to all of the experts in the fields of shamanism and psychedelia that contributed original material: Rick Strassman, Jeremy Narby, Ross Heaven, Hank Wesselman, Stephen Beyer, Hillary Webb, and don Oscar Miro-Quesda.

Excerpts from my most published article "The Universal Heart" are in the latest book by shamanic author and psychopomp Ross Heaven: Cactus of Mystery: The Shamanic Powers of the Peruvian San Pedro Cactus. You can link to the book and purchase it on Amazon.com and it will be out soon on Kindle!



"The Universal Heart" details my first experience in a mesada with San Pedro. It has been published online, as well as in the hardcover magaiznes Indie Shaman and Sacred Hoop. To see the full article you can read it on Reality Sandwich online magazine: http://www.realitysandwich.com/universal_heart or here on The Deadalus Thread: http://www.danielmoler.com/2010/10/universal-heart-written-spring-2010.html.

Thank you Ross!

I wrote an article about Chinese-concrentration-camp-victim-turned-self-empowerment-life-coac- for-women, Bambi Shen. Very sweet woman and a powerful story. You can check out the article in the latest issue of Evolving Magazine, either hard copy or onliune: http://issuu.com/evolving/docs/january2012/1#print 

RED MASS is now available on Shaman's Market.com, the leading web marketplace for shamanic supplies, books, music, etc. Thank you Bryan Bigelow and the Shaman's Market crew for the support!

Purchasing from Shaman's Market is a good way to go as this is a merchant that supports the work and life of the Q'ero Indians in Peru, the sacred ancestors of the Inca. I have a great love for Q'ero, so go to Shaman's Market and spend some money for a good cause: www.shamansmarket.com

Here are some pics of the first official RED MASS Book Signing! Thank you everyone for coming out! And thank you Barbara Criswell, John, and Mark from Aquarius, such wonderful and gracious hosts!

RED Mass is now available for sale at Barnes & Noble.com: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-mass-daniel-e-moler/1033011918

 I will be at Aquarius Bookstore in Kansas City from 3pm to 5pm on Sunday, October 9th. I will be doing a little reading from the book, Q & A, and then signing copies. Bring a friend and you can enter a drawing to win a FREE copy!

You can RSVP on the RED MASS Facebook fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241166279253789

My friends Clint and Cassie Krause release their next edition of Don't Walk in Winter Wood. A short story contribution by....me. Yay! Support your local independent RPG genius by buying this game!

My good friend Clint Krause is an excellent independent game publisher and owner of Red Moon Medicine Show. His next big RPG hit is Don't Walk in Winter Wood and I was asked to provide a story/fable to contribute to the material in the latest edition. I dug up an old tale from college that was inspired by Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" (shortened to Clint's 1,000 word specifications of course). I had to rewrite it and give it a harsher ending....if I can dig up an e-copy from somewhere (original was actually written on a typewriter and much longer) I'll post it sometime soon as well. But for now, here's a nice little piece of short fiction to help you get ready for the coming Fall season!

RED MASS has an advertisement in the latest issue of Evolving Magazine, as the first attempt to officially market the book! Hopefully, this will generate a little more revenue and I can start focusing on bolstering my marketing campaign! A big THANK YOU to Connie "Crash" Humiston, Jill Dutton, and all the other folks at Evolving!


The ad can be found on page 12 of the Septmeber 2011 issue of Evolving, Volume III, Issue 7. You can see an online version of Evolving here: http://www.evolvingmagazine.com/

RED MASS is available for purchase on the CreateSpace eStore! Click on the link and add it to your cart!
https://www.createspace.com/3623977

I got my proof back from CreateSpace last week. I hated the way the cover looked when actually printed out (which is why the option of ordering a proof is top-notch). So, I realigned some things, used a new photo of the same design, changed the tint (CreateSpace tint comes out a little darker) and resubmitted. I just got back proof #2 today and I am gasping with joy! This ... is ... it! This is my book! Three years of blood, sweat, and tears!

Look very soon for the RED MASS release! As in, a day or two....

(Happy jumps!)

My manuscript and cover submission to CreateSpace is complete and accepted! The great thing about CreateSpace is that you can do it all yourself (costs way less, practically for free). The hard thing about CreateSpace is that you can do it all yourself (formatting can be a bitch). I would like to thank especially Genevieve Margherio at Red Lemon Creative (www.redlemoncreative.com) for assisting me with the cover formatting! I could not have done it without your generous expertise, Genevieve!

All in all, so far in my self-publishing process I do recommend CreateSpace as they are very easy to use and provide a ton of options for all types of creative projects: books, comics, music, films, etc. There is alot of debate about it either way in the self-publishing community, but I gathered in my research that it is overall best to purchase your own ISBN. Mick Rooney, author of To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish? had this to say in an on-line forum on the subject of ISBNs:" The publisher of the book is the person/company whose name the ISBN's are registered in. So, you would need to buy and use your own ISBN's to properly self-publish - in effect, only an author can actually self-publish. Even creating your own internal and cover files and listing your own imprint on the title pages and back cover will still result in database and online stores listing the book as published by CreateSpace, once a CreateSpace ISBN is used." So, that's what I did. It's a bit extra money, but worth it.

The other benefits of using CreateSpace is the venues of distribution. My book will be on Amazon, the largest book distributor in the world. But, they also give you a free webpage to promote your book. I actually get more proceeds if people purchase the book through that web page, but that's fine. I can send people there first through my marketing material, but Amazon is fine too. Either way, whatever gets it out there. Here is a screen-shot of the webpage provided....authors can modify slughtly with their own banners and changing the text coloring, and background if needed:




I will send the link out once the book is completely ready. CreateSpace is printing the first copy now and sending it to me for proofing. I have a chance to look at it in its final form and make any last minute changes if necessary. Can't wait to see it! Over all, I'm enjoying the CreateSpace experience and would recommend it to anyone.

Stay tuned for the Red Mass release. There will be a book signing/release party at Aquarius Bookstore in Kansas City soon....will get that date out there as soon we get it pegged down! Cheers!

Final book cover is about one day from being done! Working on a few more last-minute edits to the text. Have already started a series of marketing collateral. Here is a first version of a book mark for advertising.....may tweak the actual image, but I like the idea.

After a year of sending off queries to literary agents and big-time publishers, I figured out how many hoops I would have to jump through in order to get someone to even consider looking at my submission. I promised myself I would give it a year...not to get a "Hey, I'll publish you!" response, but to at least get a non-templated response with some actual feedback or criticism. I got none. Even talking to some agents (the Book Doctors from Pitchapalooza) they explained the game of agentry in which I would have to go out of my way, devoted full-time to kissing some stranger's ass to even get them to think about looking at my work. I work full-time. I'm a full-time parent. Plus, I have a life I'm not willing to give up to hit the "big time." So, I said forget it.

After much research I'm going to go with CreateSpace as a self-publisher. It is by the far the cheapest option (if you do the formatting and cover yourself, which I am) and you get automatic distribution on Amazon (the largest in the biz). Its only fallback seems to be Amazon's buy-over of recyclable ISBNs, which prevent one from moving to other distribution channels and can cause all sorts of headaches. So, I purchased my own ISBN (thank you Mom and Dad) and Red Mass is already registered as a book in the database.Of course, as with most self-publishing, I will be responsible for the marketing.

I've spent the past week formatting the text to CreateSpace's uploading specifications (a major bitch) and now working on the final formatting specs of the cover (even more of a bitch). But I think within a week or so the product will be fully loaded into CreateSpace. They will take a few weeks (or maybe months) to review and make sure it's not pronography or anything, then send me a draft copy for my own review. After that I send whatever changes I do or do not have and then.... TA DA!!! I'll have a book!

I'm in discussions to have another distribution channel through Shaman's Market (http://www.shamansmarket.com) which will be a perfect audience for Red Mass. Also, the owner of Aquarius Books (http://www.aquariusbooks.com) Barbara Criswell has talked with me about doing my first book-signing/release party. Much in the works.

Will keep updating when I can. In the meantime, here is a preview of the back cover. Cheers!