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Dance of the Goblins
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Dance of the Goblins

Dance of the Goblins is an essentially self-published* book by Britain-based American occult writer Jaq D. Hawkins, also known as Denise Channing. Unlike most self-published authors, Hawkins has a history in publishing, having published eight moderately successful books on magic through a small British press. Though her self-proclaimed cult following is nowhere in evidence, she already has a far better start at real success than the average self-published author; so while the book itself may be a hard sell,** I'm intrigued by her approach to promoting it.

Since the first generation of this web page, I've had a chance to read Dance of the Goblins. I got halfway through, and oh, my dearests, I do not advise it. But if you should be tempted, read these links first:


Links

Dance of the Goblins on Amazon USA
Dance of the Goblins on Amazon UK

The excerpt of Dance of the Goblins

Hawkins's appearance on Dragons' Den to ask for funding for her planned movie of Dance of the Goblins - I've never gotten the link to work.

International Waters, the book's publisher. The site is currently up but nonfunctional.


Jaq D. Hawkins's sites

Her main site

Goblin Films, the site of Hawkins's film company.

Hawkins's main Myspace page. She also has a page under Denise Channing and under the name of her film company.

Hawkins's YouTube page, featuring a fan animation based on Dance of the Goblins.


Jaq D. Hawkins's other works

Understanding Chaos Magic - Amazon USA/UK
Chaos Monkey - Amazon USA/UK
Women of Power: The Woman as Magus - Amazon USA/UK
Spirits of the Aether - Amazon USA/UK
Spirits of the Water - Amazon USA/UK
Spirits of the Fire - Amazon USA/UK
Spirits of the Air - Amazon USA/UK
Spirits of the Earth - Amazon USA/UK

 

 

Wikipedia Knows All
Jaq D. Hawkins/Denise Channing - talk page
Hawkins's anon talk page
The Goblin Trilogy - deletion article
Dance of the Goblins - deletion article
Demoniac Dance - deletion article


Forums

IMDB: The Dance of the Goblins

Friends of Goblins, Hawkins's moribund Yahoo group devoted to the books.

Best Fantasy Novels, a Yahoo group that will be reading and discussing Dance of the Goblins in January 2008.


Articles

How I failed to impress in Dragons' Den

City author to take on Lord of the Rings


Reviews

None

* International Waters has published only one other book—which was written by the owner; the press has not arranged any reviews or other publicity [Note: Hawkins contends this, but it is notable that the only accessable press attention the book has had seems to be generated by Hawkins's TV appearance, which she herself arranged]; at the moment when Hawkins scored a major publicity coup, the publisher's site was dead. Although Nicholas Waters has had well over a year to get his act together, as of April 2009, the site is nonfunctional, lacking even a link to a location where you can buy the press's books. International Waters appears to be a guy who set up his own press to self-publish his book, then took on Dance of the Goblins in a moment of "why the hell not?" It's not a genuine small press and it's not a vanity press, so in the absence of any better description, I'm going to have to call Hawkins essentially self-published.

** Spiritually advanced, nonhierarchical oppressed people clash with patriarchal, misogynistic overclass. Author believes this idea is fresh, wants to lead people to enlightenment with it. Red flags, my precious, yessssss.

 

 
 
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