@IreneCroft
So is Tarot Fundamentals a kind of reworked, more complete version of that partwork?
Yes.
We started writing the material for the Italian edition of the Partworks in 2004-2006. However the Partworks was organized in 2 pages pills, and with a lot of necessary redundancies. Mostly, in the Partworks, the original content had been simplified to the core to address the widest possible not-Tarot audience.
Tarot Fundamentals (and the other two potential books):
- originated from the Partworks
- language and content had been de-simplified for a more focused reader
- content organized and updated (redundancies cleaned)
- additional content written
@Debra
Regarding authors, translation and editing
Actually, when in 2004 we started writing for the Partworks, LS wanted English authors on the project, because it already envisioned this book in the current form.
Core authors were Marck McElroy and Barbara Moore.
Italian authors (to be translated) were me and Giordano Berti.
Additional content came from Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin.
The editing was (and is) entrusted to Sasha Graham. She also wrote a lot of additional content.
@Myself
One thing I would like to point out is the idea Sasha built the volume out.
The whole project is based to be a Journey, with all concepts starting easy and squared (squared = definite rules, yes and no, step by step approach), and evolve to complex and deep.
All the techniques we have in Tarot are seen not as "right of wrong", but as different layers.
(I think the sample chapter on the Court Cards kind of exemplify what I mean. Also, on the Court Cards there is more material on the individual cards in volume I, a lot in the Structure in Volume II, and even more (like the Mayer Briggs) in volume III.
The idea is Fundamental (the building blocks), Experience (the journey and evolution, the Tarot and you), and Compendium (indepth and gestalt approach to the huge sea of Tarot).