SHAMANISM FOREVER (October 30, 2014)
My talks with Zorica Stablović Bulajić, my publisher, are going very well. My first book with her will soon be available as an electronic book, which will be essential for reaching markets abroad. Even more important, my second book with her is under discussion. Although I have completed my Cave Art Now in 2003, the sundry afterthoughts written ever since have been piling up. The book would be a perfect follow-up to What Is to Be Done? It would show that the prospects of our species are quite enticing in the long run. Anyhow, there is no reason to push the decision at this stage, Zorica is inclined toward the second book about the links between cave art and the likes of Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Malevich. She even brought the book up at yesterday’s presentation at the Belgrade Book Fair. She beat me to it, as a matter of fact. With some luck, the second book will be presented at the next fair. Shamanism forever, as it were.
Addendum (May 12, 2017)
And? Has my book about cave art and its connections with modern art ever been published in Belgrade? Of course not. In spite of the fact that it is in English, my book about climate change has done so poorly that Zorica Stablović Bulajić has had no interest in dealing with me ever again. Indeed, chances are that my second book, also in English, would be a flop just like the first one. Be that as it may, I am not looking for publishers any longer. My Ca’ Bon Gallery website is all I need at present (www.cabongallery.org). Available in Portable Document Format, my books are free. And there are quite a few of them on offer, too. Now I am my own publisher, as it were. Luckily for me, I am about neither fame nor fortune. Well, I am not about sexual favors, either. If there are any readers out there, fine. If not, fine again. One way or another, shamanism has a bright future. And it is getting and brighter and brighter by the day…