Ninety-Nine Fabrications

I'm pleased to announce a special publication written in conjunction with Dr. Sammy Jakubowicz and the P. Howard Lyons Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. The P. Howard Lyons Ring meets at a regular location on an irregular basis in Toronto. The membership comprises a motley crew of magicians, mentalists, comedians, psychics, university students, philosophers and general dilettantes. Topics of discussion include advancing the art of magic and techniques for the vanishment and disappearance of liquids.

Reports of the activities of the Ring are chronicled in The Linking Ring, the official organ of the IBM. These reports are based on facts only in the loosest way possible.

I became involved with Ring 99 as its secretary in 2008 and was elected to the Presidency in 2010. In the spirit of the late P. Howard Lyons, we have assembled some of our Ring Reports in a special eBook now available for purchase on Kobo, Kindle and iTunes for the appropriate sum of ninety nine cents.

Goldfinger - a new eBook

For those interested in sleight of hand with coins, one of my favourite tricks with coins was recently published in an eBook edited by John McLachlan. When I say favourite, I mean favourite! This is probably the the piece I currently perform more often than any other when I'm doing close up magic.   Goldfinger: Stand Up Coin Mysteries features contributions from magicians from the Toronto area including Luiz Castro, Ariel Frailich, John McLachlan, Mysterion the Mindreader, David Peck and Phil Pivnick. The focus of the book is coin magic that can be done without the work of a table. If you're taking time off before the new year and want something to read and some material to practice, check it out.

118 Pages, PDF, $25 - available from Lybrary.com.

Anteater Consortium

This is one of the stranger projects I've ever worked on. I helped my friend Ben Train to write a small booklet of his card magic. The result was Anteater Consortium. It contains seven items which vary in difficulty from self working to moderately difficult. As you can guess from the title, none of them have particularly serious presentations. If you can't track down Ben directly to obtain a copy, you can get one from Denny & Lee's Magic Studio here.

Seventeen Secrets

Working with the Hat & Rabbit Club, I edited a 60-page booklet with contributions from some of my favourite magicians. We talked everyone who spoke or presented for the club this season to contribute an item and have produced Seventeen Secrets.  It includes contributions from James Biss, Matt DiSero, Richard Forget, Murray Hatfield, Will Houstoun, Joshua Jay, Michael Weber, Tyler Wilson, and a piece from my show. The booklet was produced in a limited edition of one hundred numbered copies.

The booklet is $20, available from the Ring 17 online store.