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Welcome to the Spring 2010 Web-Publisher's Commentary Page
If they're not, kindly direct local librarians and neighbourhood booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to start rectifying that sad situation. Either that or, if you're feeling even more proactive, click here, copy the link, paste it into an email and send it to them, along with everyone else you reckon could use a double dose of anheroic fantasy. It will certainly be appreciated. Help build the buzz. The more books sell, the faster the PHANTACEA Mythos spreads. |
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Individual copies of Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor, Coutts Information Services, and a large number of other distributors worldwide. E-books for Kindle, Kindle Fire, I-pad, I-phone and other applications can be ordered through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other amazon affiliates worldwide. An interactive e-book containing the entirety of BookFinder.com lists the latest releases from Phantacea Publications along with a goodly number of additional booksellers carrying them. Also listed therein are almost all of the PHANTACEA Mythos print and e-publications, including the graphic novel and some of the comic books. Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of many releases from Phantacea Publications. As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say and always assuming it's still around in what be its 61st century), well, this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards. Of course you can always email or send me your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders. Plus, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial goods and sales taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. I do use bubble mailers, though. |
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Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos- written by Jim McPherson
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Help build the buzz!Greetings. Welcome or welcome back.
To order any of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications that are still available, including returned copies of PHANTACEA #1, click here or here. (If you're ordering from me, I decided not to incur the cost of trying to set up an online payment system since they seem to benefit the intermediary more so than the publisher. (That means certified cheques or money orders only please. And that in turn means stamps, an envelope and a trip to either the bank or the post office. (Sorry for any inconvenience.) Next door is the usual Hestia Housekeeping subsection of 'pHpubs'. Down below is a vastly expanded list of lynx to a number of typically idiosyncratic mini-essays and/or Character Likeness studies I've prepared over the years. It's only sort of alphabetical but, in the absence of a PHANTACEA-specific search engine it'll have to do for now. Most of the selections illustrate some of the peculiar perspectives I've developed while writing the PHANTACEA Mythos. The rest are direct quotes from Contact me at jmcp@phantacea.com Feel free to ask any questions you might have regarding PHANTACEA. I'll do my best to answer them either directly or right here in 'pHpubs'. Stories and Synopses
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Hestia Housekeeping| What's New Intro | Latest overview of a PHANTACEA print publication | Today's Topic | Elsewhere (phantacea.com, Travels Website, Serendipity Now) | Conclusion | Top of Page - Carry on with Hestia - On to PHANTACEA Essentials - On to Today's TopicHestia Housekeeping amounts to the 'What's New' section of pHpubs. Consequently I always start it with a 'What's Old' link to where I put its previous update. Now that that's done, we can get on with this edition's preview. In one form or another, Most of 20 years later (in 1996, again if you're being precise), I began pH-Webworld by serializing a longer version of it alongside As noted in its foreword (reproduced here), it's one part of the phantacea comic book series gone not only prose but now gone printed too. That selfsame foreword also promises much the same fate for another part of the phantacea comic book series (another web-serial as well); namely the aforementioned, First things first, though, and the first thing would be to get the next mosaic novel published. That would be I reckoned it ready to go in 2009 but had second thoughts. Those thought resulted in War-Pox, which had been sitting in the hard drive(s) gathering digital dust since I tried shopping it around in 2003/4. Having by now had third and fourth thoughts on 1000-Daze, including the possibility of extracting and publishing a couple of mini-novels edited for speed out of it, I'm hopeful it'll be out in the late fall of 2010. All of which explains why you're starting to see quotes from it throughout pH-Webworld as well as, even though it hasn't been published yet, over on www.phantacea.com, where an ever-building list of them exists. (NOTE: The transparent png (or ping, if you prefer) to the right, which contains elements of a cover I prepared for 1000-Daze, enlarges in a new window when it's double-clicked. It re-appears on the Serendipity Now page.)So is there problem with the book? Well, put bluntly, in this day and age that might be it in a deadly dryad's acorn (or a nutshell, again if you prefer). Playful as it is, and not only because it's action-packed, it's not a video game. Nor is it a comic book, as far as that goes. It contains words, many of which have more that one or two syllables. Furthermore, like Feel Theo, its main characters are devils (a word that, as per here, just means 'little gods'). And, much to my own personal mystification, there are still readers out there (not to mention potential buyers) who have difficulty accepting devils as protagonists. Oh well, even though one forever hears that villains make the best characters -- and in my view the world isn't a particularly heroic place -- perhaps it still isn't ready for anheroic fantasy of the sort the phantacea Mythos has been providing since 1977. As for what else is new in pH-Webworld's Spring 2010 update, well, how about something that isn't at all new, yet is, and not just in terms of pH-Webworld? By that I'm referring to the final five pages Ian Bateson prepared for phantacea Phase One #2. (The first 5 are here whereas the rest of the comments I made re that howsoever prematurely aborted project are preserved here.) Will further say that the 'Travels in my Pants' (TIMP) web pages are not, as has been alleged, a porn site. I have nevertheless changed the lynx at the bottom of these page to read Travels. Will further say that its main menu page is still here and that its latest entry might be entitled 'Bi-Tropical Disorder'. Then again it might also be entitled 'Domingo Demencia'. Either way, it's another riff on my 2009 trip to Costa Rica & Panama. Not at all scandalous scads more in the way of new material -- new material specifically prepared for the PHANTACEA Mythos, I should emphasize -- can be found on www.phantacea.com. Its main menu is here. The latest photo essays are here and here whereas the webpage entirely dedicated to 'Feel Theo', the first PHANTACEA Mythos print publication since 1990's graphic novel, is here and the one for 'War-Pox' its successor, though not its sequel, is here. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - Restart Preview - On to TopicAs if all the above wasn't already enough, there's some new material in Serendipity Now. It mostly comes from a book I've had for a number of years but only recently took off the shelf again. Nonetheless, it is in the spirit of the page(s) in that it's real life stuff, not anything I made up. Try out 'A different take on Demogorgon' for starters. It's akin to some of what I mentioned earlier in that it contains quotes from So do the Sprinkles section of Serendipity Now, the first entry I've made on the Faeries webpage in over a decade, and the first entries ever on the seemingly forever-promised, but only recently realized, webpage dedicated to the Utopians of Weir. Do help build the buzz. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to TopicFeedback encouraged. Oh and, lest we forget, as always, good reading. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to Stories and Synopses - On to Mosaic Novels - On to Today's Topic - |
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Lynx to complete mosaic novels within the PHANTACEA Mythos whose potential covers, background information and introductory chapters are still online
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PHANTACEA Essentials| Anheroic Fantasy | Apple-Kores | Beware Firstborns | The Celestial Superior | The Cretan Snake Goddess | Devic Names | 'Domus Delle Gorgoni' | The Demons of Salvador | Fecundity | Fisherwoman | Freespirit Nihila | Gloriella D'Angelo Dark | PHANTACEA Factoids | Heliosophos | Mithras's Ninth | The Moloch Sedon | Names for the Nameless | The Perfidious Polygamist | Primeval Lilith | Sedonplay | The Silverclouds | The Smiling Fiend | Thrygragos Everyman | Thrygragos Varuna Mithras | The Thrygragos Talismans | The Time-Tumbling Dual Entities | The Trigregos Talismans | The Unities of Lazareme | Utopians of Weir | The VAM Entity | - double click on image for a larger but different image - go to linked webpage for info on both images - |
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The War of the Apocalyptics – Author’s AfterwordI’m sure every writer of fantasy sometimes wonders if he didn’t make the whole thing up; if perhaps there is some measure of truth in what he’s written. I’m no different. That said, I feel obliged to add that some of the things I’ve come across since I first started writing the PHANTACEA Mythos cross the bounds of wonderment and enter the realm of the truly spooky. I cited a series of examples of just that in the afterword to (A photo essay revisiting that Afterword, one complete with my own photographs as well as supplementary lynx to Internet references, can be viewed here.)As nifty as they are, though, none of them really compares to what I spotted that day in the Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. ========
That'll do for now. Until the next time, be pHantacizing you. Oh, and in case you haven't done so already, here's a friendly reminder:
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Sites with Loads of Graphics:Google.ca supplies what amounts to a pH-Webworld web gallery. Just go to http://www.google.ca/, hit the images link and type in PHANTACEA. Pasting into the address area of your browser the following Url might work as well: http://images.google.ca/images?q=phantacea&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&start=100&sa=N&filter=0 PHANTACEA on the Web is chock-a-block with visuals. Good places to ogle artwork from the comic books and graphic novel are One to Six, 'Twenty-Five Years Plus' and what began as 'The Genesis of PHANTACEA' web-page. Most of the other graphics are scans I did of my own photographs or material I put together using PHOTOSHOP. All the essays are loaded with images. Try out the framed version of the Main Menu. You won't go anywhere else but, then again, you won't get lost either.
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Webpage last updated: Spring 2015There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic') Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos comic books, graphic novels, standalone novels, mini-novels and e-booksDownloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print PublicationsCurrent Web-Publisher's CommentaryJim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.comPHANTACEA: The Web SerialspHantaJim's WeblogWebsite last updated: Autumn 2015 Written by: Jim McPherson -- jmcp@phantacea.com© copyright Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com) Websites featuring, at least in part, Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos
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