“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This would involve holding the sessions, but letting Jane herself do any work about producing books for the market. [...]

[...] You show as much reluctance to sell your work as Ruburt shows in marketing his poetry.

[...] Summing up, the publisher told Jane that once the ESP book is on the market and her name begins to be known through publicity, it will help the sales of future books considerably—namely the Seth material.

[...] Obviously escapism is involved—but at certain levels of interaction the beliefs smoothly flow from creation to market. [...]

[...] Searle was facing stiff competition in a market that now favored the buyer, John said, and new methods and perhaps new personnel were called for to meet the problem.

[...] 6/6, sometime in the AM: I wanted to get a pair of stockings but didn’t know whether the store I had in mind, the Walnut St. Market, carried them. [...]

[...] With three Seth books on the market now, the number of letters Jane receives weekly has increased considerably, and evidently will continue to grow. [...]

[...] Jane’s publisher still has plenty of “lead time” for the production of the book, since it won’t be marketed until the fall of 1975.

[...] So, while I busied myself in the familiar market next door, she sat in the car writing — looking quite ordinary, a small black-haired woman with her head bent forward…. [...]

[...] A drugstore next to the market was undamaged.

[...] Within the next several years she sold a number of additional stories to the same magazine, as well as two short novels, and also published poetry and a little fiction in other markets.

[...] Checking the page proofs is the last stage we go through before publication, and Volume 1 is due to be marketed this summer — probably in July.

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. [...]

[...] That made it difficult for its publisher to market. [...]

[...] Besides writing for herself, Jane worked briefly as a cashier in a newly-opened food market; she left the job after a few days when the manager made advances to her. [...]