“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It also represented a slowdown in the activity from Prentice, in that he feels that if Tam were really interested in his book he would keep better track of it.

(The next day Jane called Tam, got the info from him as to his screen treatment of Seven, then relayed the word to Neuman.

(On June 27 Jane had received a letter from Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall, requesting information on Dr. Instream, Dr. Bernard, both psychologists; and on Ray Van Over. [...]

[...] My longtime friend and editor there, Tam Mossman, was considering leaving to work for another publishing firm. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s approach with the phone call (to Tam) today was excellent, and that approach can be used in many other areas of your activities by both of you. [...]

Now: your friend Tam quite happily gives readings with Ruburt’s experience behind him, and he says “I simply say, I take no responsibility for what James says.” [...]

[...] Jane, who was to work on James all through September, prepared a presentation for that book so that in the meantime her editor, Tam Mossman, could show it to his associates at Prentice-Hall. [...] Over the telephone three days later, Tam suggested that Jane do a children’s book, or one for “readers of all ages,” based on her dream about Emir;² the next day he called again, this time to give her the delightful news that he’d accepted James for publication.

(I spent part of the afternoon and evening writing to Tam, asking him to defend us from the well-meaning but evidently inept efforts of various people in Canada and Switzerland to arrange for translations of Jane’s work in French, Italian, and Spanish—and I’d sworn off writing such letters following the fiasco with Ariston.... [...]

[...] At one time I thought of asking Tam if he’d do it. [...]

[...] After hearing from Jane and me and her editor, Tam Mossman, the Dutch publisher agreed to market a new, uncut translation of Seth Speaks this year. [...]

[...] Richard, Eleanor, Tam, Timothy, and yourselves. [...]

(The day after this session, Jane received a letter from her editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, asking if she had received her contracts through the mail; there has been a worrisome delay, due at least in part to the recent postal strike.)

The firm decision to do this was made when we were visited by Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, Tam Mossman, and a business colleague who accompanied him. [...]

[...] As he told us in the 743rd session, a few days after the visit of Tam and his associate: “This book had no chapters [in order] to further disrupt your accepted notions of what a book should be. [...]

Once we’d decided to publish in two volumes, Jane, Tam, and I agreed that we didn’t want to move all of the supplementary data to the back of each book, as is often done in such cases. [...]

(In my original and unpublished notes in Session 520 in Seth Speaks I listed three chances for the fruition of Seth’s prediction: The mention in Cosmopolitan of Jane’s ESP book for April 1970; Tam’s news about New American Library being very interested in the Seth material book; or Jane’s contract for the dream book being in the mail from Prentice-Hall.)

[...] So has Tam, incidentally. [...]

[...] Tam wrote us this week that he thinks so, and that “sales have never been better. [...]

He is pleased with the latest business alliance with Tam. [...]

[...] She called Tam Mossman last month about the book, and they discussed possible titles for it. [...]

[...] Tam has recently told Jane that the Seth books outsell all P/H’s books except the Ozzie Nelson. [...]

[...] During a call to Tam this morning, he advised Jane to “put a stop” to the affair before it went too far—to at least write the people involved a letter. [...]