Sounds like a wonderful read David!
To make your book accessible is to answer the question--after who, what,
when, where, why, and how--of "and who cares."
Congrats,
Kathryn
Kathryn LaFevers Evans
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Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:37 AM
Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Black Dog of Bungay Book Plug
> Hi Peoples,
> Just thought I'd do the self promotion thing and let people know my new
> book
> "Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore" is now
> available on Amazon and the like. Whilst not specifically on Paganism per
> se I do deal with the mythology of Pagan survivals, which is a substantive
> feature of the folklore on the Black Dog Legend and a few figures such as
> Margaret Murray are discussed in relation to the re-popularization of
> Black
> Dog mythology in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
>
> You can read about it and some reviews here at hidden publishing,
>
> http://hiddenpublishing.com/about/shock-the-black-dog-of-bungay/
>
> and it is available from Amazon here
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Black-Bungay-David-Waldron/dp/095552377X/ref=sr_
> 1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267619150&sr=8-1
>
> The book is co-written with the museum curator Christopher Reeve and is
> based primarily in archival research and interviews for the more recent
> materials. The focus of the book is not on the veracity of the Dog legend
> as much as it is oriented towards tracing how the story developed from its
> origins in the social turmoil of the reformation to the present.
>
> I have to say as well that it was rather a pleasure and a challenge
> writing
> a book which, while based in detailed research, is designed to be
> accessible
> and entertaining to a non academic audience. A major motivation in
> writing
> this book was to have a book available which covered the material in
> detail
> from a folkloric perspective that could be available in the town, as well
> as
> the fact that many of the people involved in its being appropriated as a
> symbol of town identity in the 1930's were passing on and there was a need
> to take the material down and record it for posterity before it was lost.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
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