I love books about magic. I read them, I study them, I collect them. I've always considered them a unique and delightful subset of the self-publishing world. (Although there are "publishers" who produce magic books, there are no magic books that are from the big publishing companies. I'm talking about books that are magician-to-magician, not the magician-to-layperson books you find in the Games section of your bookstore or library.)
Katie Kenner's observation on her blog really smacked me upside the head:
"So if you are a magician, please be passionate about it and please try to remember that other “artists” from other fields don’t have books and DVDs to copy from one another. In life, you don’t get that either… its just something I think magicians forget…"
Is that true? Other entertainment professions don't have books with routines and technology that are offered to others for adoption? I've never considered that magic is alone in this fashion.
But now I'm thinking that it makes books about magic even more unique and interesting!