“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Much has taken place since then. Jane has withdrawn Emir from consideration at Prentice-Hall, and in back of that decision lies a story too complicated to recite in detail here. Tam’s letter of today catalyzed her action, however, when he told her that Prentice-Hall had decided to publish Emir through the children’s department. Jane feared the book, which she regards as the beginning of Oversoul Seven, would be lost in a tiny printing. The advance would also be very low.

(More developments took place today, before I began typing this session. Tam called Jane to inform her that Eleanor called John Nelson [which Jane already knew] —but that Eleanor and her screenwriter friend had the money to do a movie for Seven. So we’ll see what develops in this continuing saga. Clare Townsend of 20th Century-Fox called Tam today and asked about seeing the manuscript of Jane’s second Oversoul Seven book, which Jane has just begun typing. Townsend is involved with Alan Neuman, of course, who also wants to do a movie of the first Seven book, etc. A chart made of all the events to date would show an interlocking pattern of lines, I believe, like a spider’s web. Hardly a “coincidence” that it all begins to develop at relatively the same time.)

Tam’s answer is generally a good one. Many people rushed out to buy the book at once, and are impatiently awaiting Volume 2. Many booksellers ordered “Unknown”, sold many copies, and then returned large numbers. Reasoning that when the second volume came out, they would reorder and have both together.