Feeling left out...

[Scion]

Own this actually, though I don't think of myself as a smart girl. Picked it up here in NYC at the Strand for $2 or so. Literally cause of price and it was a Tarot guide. Book mania and all. It's a poerfect;y charming little book. To use the book's idiom: it's a little black dress Tarot book. Not a pair of Blahniks, more a pair of Kenneth Cole clogs. Cute, functional, and stylish overall... but not thoughts for the ages.

Thing is... I can hear the pitch meeting between the agent and acquisitions editor:
"See it's the Sex & the City market but it's sorta new-agey, self-helpy too; Cosmo-Occult. Nothing too dire, nothing too deep, so that you could give it as a gift at a hen party and everyone would giggle and gather round."

My thought? Rock out! Shallowness is fine, because every deep end starts out in the shallows. I don't mind a fluffy, marketable intro to tarot because for every 50 dilettantes, there might be one true seeker who delves deeper.

If you see it for under $5 definitely. And if you want to get a girlier friend thinking about Tarot it's a slick threshold.

Scion

[tarotbear]

Originally Posted by Lee

Jeez, talk about marketing to a specific audience!

"The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot: Finally, a Tarot Guide for the Contemporary Woman" by Emmi Fredericks

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/IS...sim/aeclectic/

I guess men need not apply...

-- Lee

Hey! I am still awaiting the Acquistion Department to pass judgement on my second tarot book manuscript, tentively titled 'Every Man's Tarot,' which I hope will give us male people our say in this matter.

[Shade]

Originally Posted by Lee

Jeez, talk about marketing to a specific audience!

When men are an attractive market to dive into the books will come pouring out. This has already happened in the pagan books market as the Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard by Oberon Zell and Sons of the Goddess are popular new releases.

[Kissa]

Originally Posted by Lee

Jeez, talk about marketing to a specific audience!

that said from the guy who created the gay tarot.

i'm now creating the "home mother to two-owner of five cats-internet freak" tarot btw... or do you think the audience might be too restricted? marketing strategies eh...

kissa

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Kissa

that said from the guy who created the gay tarot.

Thanks, Kissa, for your thoughtful remark. If you look back in the thread, you'll see I addressed this point in response to Diana's post.

-- Lee

[Rusty Neon]

Occupying a prize place on my bookshelf is a gift from a bookseller when I expressed surprise to him about the existence of one of the books he had at the store: "Cosmopolitan's Guide to Fortune Telling".

[Vadella]

I'll buy any book regardless of the title if I want a different viewpoint. I will not, however, buy an "Idiot's guide" to anything because I just don't think it's nice to call yourself an idiot.

[closrapexa]

I really really really really dislike any book that is oriented toward a certain sex, be it a woman's guide or a man's guide, for the simple reason that I feel left out no matter what it is about, because they talk about relationships and stuff from a straight person's point of view. I'd like to see a book called "Men are from Mars and Men are from Mars" or something like that... Where are all those self help books for the paranoid and disfunctional who like people who have the same thingums as they do?

[MoonLite]

Originally Posted by Deana

I saw this book at Borders and wanted to read it but not badly enough to buy it. The library had it, so I did read it. I really did like it; I have a feeling I would have liked it even better if I were ten years younger (LOL, I'm 29). I will never look at a Rider Waite 8 of Cups again without thinking of her commentary, "Screw this sh*&!"

Hmm, that certainly sounds an interesting book! LOL As a newbie just going through my book learning the basic meanings, sounds like that one could bring a whole new meaning to the cards! Although... guess, you couldn't come out with that in a reading for someone.