“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Her editor, Tam Mossman, has offered her the prospect of a contract for a book on Adventures in Consciousness combined with Aspects. [...]

[...] Ruburt is more relieved than he realizes, because he realizes that the book meets with Aerofranz’s (Tam Mossman’s) approval; but more, because he knows he has done a good job. [...]

[...] Going over these two sets of material was routine; nothing had to be returned, and in each case Jane called Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall to give her approval and to make a few suggestions for changes. [...]

There are some remarks about healing, both for you and for our Aerofranz (Tam Mossman) for example. [...]

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

(Meaning the proposed visit here of Tam Mossman and Ray Van Over next Thursday.)

(Saturday afternoon Jane finished typing the final version of her Introduction for Mass Events, and yesterday morning I mailed it to Tam Mossman at Prentice-Hall.

The next chapter will describe what you may call my present environment; my present in quote “characteristics,” my associates—and you may tell your Aerofranz (Tam Mossman) that I smiled as I used the word. [...]

[...] Today Jane called Tam Mossman of Prentice-Hall, to discuss the prospectus for the Seth book suggested by Prentice-Hall.

[...] 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.)

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Tam called her Friday; he’d received the James presentation, and was most enthusiastic, which cheered Jane a great deal. [...]

(As if to celebrate our way of life and work in the house on the hill, we were visited last Saturday by Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, and a publishing colleague of his. [...]

[...] Tam Mossman has told us the book probably will be published before the end of the year.

[...] Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall, has read the first six chapters of Personal Reality [as we call it], and has written her a very encouraging letter.)

(We gave up our regularly scheduled sessions last week, and spent a great deal of time correcting the proofs for Volume 1 of “Unknown.”³ In fact, I didn’t finish my part of the job until midnight Sunday; then early this morning I mailed the whole thing to Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] (Copyediting is one of the earlier editorial stages a book goes through on its way to publication, and is meant to study all of the work that Jane and I and her editor, Tam Mossman, have already done on the manuscript: Before it’s set into type, a reader who works independently of the publishing firm carefully checks the manuscript for grammar, contradictions, facts, consistency, and so forth, and makes suggestions for whatever changes he or she thinks are desirable. [...]

[...] Tam also told Jane last Friday that some other publishers of poetry have turned down Dialogues for paperback editions. [...]

Prentice served your purposes for the same reason, and because of reincarnational contacts with Tam.

(By way of contrast, I want to add here that this week Jane has been notified by Prentice-Hall of their most enthusiastic reception of her children’s book, Emir. Not only that, it appears that Prentice-Hall may have found at the same time the ideal illustrator for the work; black-and-white copies of sample illustrations have been sent to Jane, done by the female artist, with Tam’s assurances that the color is brilliant.

[...] Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice Hall, called this morning to say that the first copies of her book, The Seth Material, have arrived at Prentice Hall from the printer. [...]