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Golden Phoenix Publishing Books & Music Published by Authors and Musicians: Art for Humanity and Mother Nature... The Earth is a large planet - getting smaller all the time. As particle accelerators probe the very small, and space telescopes the very large, we human beings are stretched in every direction. With one eye open and another closed, we look both inward and outward, using insight and outlook to span the eternal and the infinite. Art and science, religion and philosophy, psychology and ecology, Earth and Cosmos can all reveal their secrets - but only as we humans transmute lead to gold, while rising out of the ashes of the past into the Light of the Future... Golden Phoenix Publishing... Our Readers: Our readers are more inclined to hike a trail than walk a city street. They're more likely to ride a bike than drive an SUV. They eat organic tofu and avoid genetically modified soybeans. They're more excited by the discovery of earth-like planet Gliese 581c than Paris Hilton cooling her jet-set thrusters in a Los Angeles county prison. In watching television, they gravitate more toward Star Trek: The New Generation than American Idol. After watching The Da Vinci Code they're more likely to say they found the idea of Mary being Jesus' equal more intriguing than the suspense of a crazed priest stalking the protagonists across Europe. No, we don't target New Agers. Golden Phoenix Publications doesn't target anybody, we just publish books that will one day be 'must reads'... Are you more at home in the future than the past? Do you think the present has been hanging on a little longer than it should? Read Golden Phoenix and change the world... Author Bios: Jeff Barbour: Jeff thinks of himself as 'having just enough genius to recognize genius in others.' Inclined toward a broad range of interests, jeff considers himself a practical-idealist pushing the envelop of possibility without placing too much strain on the credulity of others. On any given day, jeff may be adding dialog to a novel, performing a kata, fingering a diminished chord, pedaling a bicycle, proving Pythagorean's Theorem, coding a javascript calculator or reflecting on the nature of time and space before the Big Bang. By night, jeff may be out tracking down a 12th magnitude spiral galaxy, watching a good movie, or deforming the topography of a futon... Jeff says he wrote Ritual of Stone guided by the peculiar notion that it would be the one book future generations would want to consult if they wished to understand why their ancestors destroyed the natural world. Jeff wrote Blue Planet & Beyond to provide all the information needed by such heirs to apocalypse should they wish to rebuild an entire civilization and avoid a similar cataclysm in the future. Jeff describes End of the World, as the narrative for a documentary on the twin need for humanity to live in harmony with the natural world while preparing for the colonization of other worlds beyond the solar system. He sees the novel Farinara as an engaging way to explain 'the perennial philosophy' - a philosophy that just won't go away largely because it makes so much sense... Jeff's says his books aren't for everybody - but should be...
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. For Booksellers: Although Lulu does its best to limit costs, POD does not offer the kind of markups encouraging booksellers to place Golden Phoenix publications on bookshelves. At best, Lulu global distribution allows for a 15% markup and distributors, such as Ingram's, will not allow you return unsold stock. For that reason it may not be possible for you to place Golden Phoenix works on your shelves. However with time, Golden Phoenix Publications hopes to print some of its more popular works in volumes that will allow for conventional profits to allow your bookstore to offset business costs and make a reasonable profit. Please contact Golden Phoenix Publishing to begin a dialog along these lines...
For Publishers: Golden Phoenix encourages traditional publishers to participate in the distribution of its published works. Ultimately, our goal is to reach the largest audience possible. You can help. Please contact Golden Phoenix Publishing for more information.
For Everyone: Reading is an extraordinary way to learn more about yourself and the world around you. There's much of magic to be found in the written word. That magic expresses itself both through the imagination and ever-expanding insight. Golden Phoenix encourages you to read regularly. Words, and the thoughts they convey, can feed the fire of the mind until, like the Firebird of the Ancients, you rise like a Flaming Arrow into a much larger Universe...
For Filmmakers: Golden Phoenix recognizes the power of the motion picture arts to fully realize its vision. The condensed version of Blue Planet & Beyond (End of the World) was specifically crafted to act as the basis of a documentary exploring the parallels between Easter Island and Island Earth. The novel Farinara began as a screenplay which later evolved into a full-blown novel... Please contact Golden Phoenix Publishing to discuss how we can work together to make the large screen vision of both these works a reality in a theater near you.
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