While I’m obviously focused on the imminent release of my book, The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture, that is only one of the fast and furious developments within the vibrant Burning Man culture.

The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture will start rolling off the presses by the end of the week and I should have boxes of books in my possession by late next week to sign and send to those who have pre-ordered it on my website (pre-orders through CCC Publishing, Amazon, and other sites will ship then as well).

Please allow me introduce myself, I’m… Who am I? The automatic answer is to say Steve, my moniker since birth. Over the last six years, I’m also been Scribe, which is descriptive of what I am as well as who. It’s my name: Scribe. Lots of burners know me simply as Scribe, from my early Opulent Temple campmates to my most recent girlfriend, who cooed it into my ear with natural ease.

Bad Electronic Publishing Ideas

Here is an essay written by CEO Curt Matthews of IPG (CCC PUblishing's distributor) that will run in a future Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) newsletter that may be of interest.

Four Really Bad Electronic Publishing Ideas that Are Finally Going Away

Information Wants to Be Free

My travel book "Sacred Places North America (2nd ed.)" has won the BATW Gold Award (First Place winner) for the 2010 Best Travel Book for the Planet Earth category. The Bay Area Travel Writers judging committee had the following to say about the title:

It was just announced that "Sacred Places North America (2nd ed.)" by Brad Olsen (that's me!) has won a Gold Award! It is the First Place winner of the Best Travel Book for the Planet Earth category. This is quite a honor, and my first time to take home the Gold! Fitting especially with the Winter Olympics about to begin in Vancouver.

For the last year I have been working for another publisher who produces photo-script podcasts called Visual Travel Tours (VTT). They were soliciting travel writers to contribute content for a new medium and delivery system over the Internet that got me excited. Being in the book and traditional print industry for the last 15 years I have seen a lot of indie bookstores close and the book business rapidly consolidate in this relatively short period. For example, when I started out in publishing in 1995, the Book Expo trade industry show (then called the ABA) was a 4-day long affair.

Dear Karen,
 
I wanted to write to you to express my gratitude for your show about the Divine Feminine. I have had an incredible experience as a result of your show, and hope from my heart of hearts that I can relay it to you now.
I am 23, and I am an artist living in Los Angeles. I was raised with the Divine Feminine in a place and time where that was highly uncommon, and came of age as my mother undertook her own spiritual journey through the Feminine.

Voices of the Sacred Feminine Internet Radio Show
Hosted by Karen Tate
Wednesday Evenings 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern
Listen Live or At Your Convenience from the Archives
 
Guests & Show Topics in March:
3/4 -- DeAnna L'am - Red Tents in Every Neighborhood -- Menses and Rites of Passage for Girls
 

So This is What a Paradigm Shift Looks Like!

 
Making the Right Brain Shift