“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, has notified her by telephone that within a few days she will receive a contract for the publication of this book.)

[...] She’s included a selection of Sumari prose and poetry in the Appendix of her novel, The Education of Oversoul 7, which Prentice-Hall is to publish this fall.)

(This a long session, given for Tam Mossman and Eve Naudain, of Prentice-Hall and New York City. [...]

[...] The last name of Cecile Grossman, an editor at Prentice-Hall, was mentioned by Seth, for instance. [...]

(Four months ago I wrote in Note 1 for Session 885 that through a series of misunderstandings the people at Ankh-Hermes, a publishing company in Holland, had violated their contract with Prentice-Hall by issuing a condensed translation of Seth Speaks. Our editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, insisted that Ankh-Hermes publish another, full-length edition of Jane’s book in the Dutch language. [...]

(Before the session I’d asked Jane if Seth could comment upon the reported drop in sales of Seth Speaks recently as reported by Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall. [...]

(Jane has been so busy finishing up the manuscript of her book on the Seth material, for Prentice-Hall, that we haven’t had a session since September 29.

[...] See the 503rd session for September 24 for Seth’s comments re Jane’s relief at Prentice-Hall’s approval, through Tam Mossman, of Jane’s book on the Seth material. [...]

The man at Prentice-Hall (Tam Mossman, an assistant editor), simply overstepped, as you both suspect. [...]

[...] (Cecile Grossman was an editor at Prentice-Hall then.) Mossman has an uncle, I believe, of whom he is fond, or was fond. [...]

(I’m beginning to get that harried feeling again, especially since another batch of mail arrived from Prentice-Hall today. [...]

[...] A couple of days ago 49 letters arrived from Prentice-Hall.

[...] A vague uneasiness was growing in my mind: It seemed that Prentice-Hall was taking unusually long to officially clear The God of Jane and Seth’s The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. [...]

The natural person uses creative abilities spontaneously, and those abilities, as I have said often, will show themselves both in the area of Prentice and in the area of Ruburt’s physical condition when you allow them play and leeway. [...]

He had far greater faith than you that your artistic integrity would affect Prentice, so that your drawings would emerge mainly as you intended them. [...]

(That topic ties in with my idea that I mentioned to her this afternoon, about it hardly being a coincidence that many events in our lives are coming to a head at the same time: Our deep upset about Jane’s condition; the trouble with the disclaimer idea for Mass Events; Prentice-Hall’s reorganization into the General Publishing Division, in which all of their narrative books will be phased out, thus eliminating any real need for Tam and his job; indeed, Tam is looking at other job offers even now. [It’s been my position for some time now that Tam will end up leaving Prentice-Hall, or will be let go.] If and when he does go, we will be without our friend there, and will have to make decisions based on that departure. [...] I doubt if we would follow Tam helter-skelter to another publishing house if he left Prentice-Hall tomorrow—especially in light of our decision to hold off on Dreams. [...]

(I remarked to Jane today that if I’d known what I think I know now, today, a month ago we could have withdrawn Mass Events from Prentice-Hall, using the disclaimer dispute as an excuse, and delayed its publication for as long as we wanted to. [...]

[...] When Pete called Steve this morning he learned Steve had sent his proposal to Prentice-Hall a week ago, so Saul should have it by now.

[...] It seems our problems with communication with Prentice-Hall are getting worse by the month.... [...]

(One of the events we’ve been preparing for is the visit tomorrow of Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

Jane finished Dialogues last year (in March 1973), and now (in June 1974) is halfway through the final draft of Adventures. I’m to finish illustrations for each of them by the end of this year, if possible, since Prentice-Hall will publish both books in 1975. [...]

[...] I picked up the mail at the box before I left—including a riotous letter from Saul Cohen, our editor at Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] What did the people at Prentice-Hall think of that? [...]

(Just before we left on vacation on July 19, we received a copy of a letter from Dr. Bernard that he’d mailed to our publishers at Prentice-Hall.)

(Today Jane heard from Tam that Prentice-Hall had signed a contract with a Dutch publisher for a translation of Seth Speaks into that language. [...]

(Late last week Jane received her first copy of her book on William James, and this noon we received the additional 11 copies that were due us from Prentice.)

(Here Seth refers to the check for $7,500 that Jane recently received from Prentice-Hall as half her payment for the paperback rights of Seth Speaks. [...]

The new relationship with Prentice-Hall should work very well. [...]