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[...] Psyche, and on Emir. [...]

(Eleanor Friede visited Saturday and Sunday, as planned, and went over parts of Emir with Jane. [...]

(Yesterday Jane sent Tam a copy of the Delacorte contract for Emir, so that he could study it for her.

The day after that session for March 11 was held we received a jolt: Eleanor Friede, Jane’s editor at Delacorte Press, informed us that Jane’s book, Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers, was being remaindered—taken off the market because in the publisher’s view it wasn’t selling enough copies. [...] We’d known that Emir hadn’t been setting any records since its publication in September 1979, but we’d also thought the book’s sales were respectable enough that the people at Delacorte Press would keep it in print until it became better known. Perhaps our shock came about because we’d become spoiled without realizing it, but of Jane’s 14 books Emir¹⁰ is the first one to be withdrawn—and, ironically, the last one she’d had published. [...]

[...] Like each of Jane’s books, Emir has its own life, its own place upon our planet, and resists categorization. [...] Tam Mossman said it best in September 1977, when Jane was writing the book and Prentice-Hall was considering its publication: Emir is really a book for “readers of all ages.” [...]

[...] The Seth books sell better, however, than do her “own” books: How to Develop Your ESP Power, Adventures in Consciousness, Psychic Politics, Cézanne and James, her Oversoul Seven novels, Dialogues and Emir. (See the opening notes for this 931st session, as well as Note 10, for my description of the demise of Emir.) Now Jane adds God of Jane to her list, with If We Live Again to follow in a few months.

[...] I’ve finished for publication Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers (the entire first chapter came in a dream), and The Further Education of Oversoul Seven. [...]

[...] Writing things down is excellent for Ruburt in particular, and so again on those days when no specifics events occur, to be included in his notes, then I want him to write down his feelings about 1: inspiration, 2: work, 3: “Unknown” Reality, 4: Psyche, 5: Emir. [...]

[...] Prentice has also given Ruburt some considerable freedom, with the exception of Emir, to write a variety of different kinds of books—something that some larger corporations might well indeed not do. [...]

(On the other hand, with the copyedited manuscript for James and the concluding chapters of Emir mailed to Prentice-Hall earlier this month, Jane found herself with some unexpected free time. [...]

[...] Delacorte Press published Emir just last month.

Within a few days we expect to receive from Delacorte Press the first copies of Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers.

Emir is Jane’s children’s book—or the one for “readers of all ages,” as she puts it. [...]