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Actually, it is odd that folk talk about Marcus Katz as a "cult of personality" but ignore Tali Goodwin who is a co-author and seems to be the main researcher! Is this a gender thing?
Rhosyn.
Actually this is an example of mistaken assumptions that gets retold and reinforced, and yet based on ignorance of the facts. There are people here who are not really interested in what this project is, they are merely trashing the organization behind it. Trying to find connections and then veiled accusations or plagerism of every work of fiction that comes to mind
Let's be quite clear here, I am not defending a friend, I make my judgement calls about people based on what I actually know, not just heresay. Over the years I have had a few business dealings with the Tarot Association, some commissioned work and speaking fees. On no occasion have I had reason to question those dealings. That is my personal reference, not third party on line gossip.
And what I know (as should anyone who has actually met Marcus and Tali) is that he tends to take the leading role is speaking and being more the public face of the relationship, because Tali has difficulty in speaking, she is limited by an extreme stutter, which is made worse by the additional nerves of attempting to speak publically. Yet her equal stautus in the relationship is clearly appreciated and understood.
Come on people, please stop with this character assasination. All I'm asking is that you discuss the project not the man, judge the project, positively or negatively once you have seen it. Don't just trash it because of who is behind it and do so before you even know exactly what it is. Some ridicule the marketing and claim it doesn't make sense to you, yet it's being discussed, which suggests to me that the marketing has worked. And hopefully so, years of work hinge on the fickle balance of a Kickstarter campaign, of course a lot of effort has gone into improving those chances.
Not only do phrases like "scam" and "outright lies" not have a place in a forum such as this. It's also borderline libelous in a legal sense, as such posts might indeed have their desired effect, namely to create doubt about the project. That is just not moral. Its also ironic in that those terms are how the majority of people in the world would describe the whole concept of tarot.