Promotional Information

• Authors will tap into ongoing Way of the Rose meetings and active social markets.
• They will also pursue the many indie stores who are carrying and selling Way of the Rose due to author events at their stores: Open Center Bookstore, NYC, Rainy Day Books, Kansas City, MO, Sagrada, Berkeley, CA, New Renaissance, Portland, OR, Moon Palace, Minneapolis, MN, Book Woman, Austin, TX
• Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO, Collected Works, Santa Fe, NM, The Ark, Santa Fe, NM, Joseph Beth, Cincinnati, OH, Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM, Northshire Books, Saratoga, NY.
• National publicity campaign tied into the ‘trilogy’ of Way of the Rose, Waking Up to the Dark, and Now is the Hour of Her Return.
• Cross market to the Deep Green community, e.g Derrick Jensen. Both constituencies believe in an earth first philosophy and that the earth is headed toward ecological collapse, and that only a change in human behavior (rather than green technology) can prevent annihilation of species and human civilization. What Bright Green Lies is to the science of climate change, Strand’s books are to the spiritual side of the equation. 
• Galleys
• Social Media marketing---a strength of the authors and the deep green community

About the Author

Clark Strand is the former senior editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He is the current editor of the Haiku Challenge, which is a monthly Haiku context sponsored by Tricycle. He is the author of many books on spirituality and religion, including Seeds from a Birch Tree, Meditation Without Gurus, How to Believe in God, Waking the Buddha, and Waking Up to the Dark.  His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. With his wife, Perdita Finn, Strand is also the author of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, and the co-founder of an international, non-sectarian rosary fellowship. He lives in Woodstock, New York.

Reviews

“A celebration of the life-enriching—indeed, indispensable—properties of the night . . . Strand delivers a significant amount of experiential melding to existential thoughtfulness in this book about the sublime and elemental powers of the dark. . . An exigent, affecting summons to rediscover the night.”—Kirkus Reviews“This book is small in size and mighty in spirit. It is at once a clarion call and a meditation. Sonorous, deep, soul-stirring, and profoundly comforting, Waking Up to the Dark is a rare book that will be pressed from one hand to the next with the urgent, whispered words: You must read this.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion“In a modern world flooded with artificial light, Clark Strand reminds us what we have left behind in the dark. This beautiful, haunting meditation is filled with surprises and lost knowledge. Read it by candlelight—you will never forget it.”—Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America and One Simple Idea“In this exhilaratingly original work, Clark Strand shows us that the key to enlightenment lies where we don’t want to look. It is hidden in plain sight, but we have to turn the lights off to find it.”—Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and The Trauma of Everyday Life“Breathtaking and revolutionary, a small masterpiece for a world that has grown uncomfortable with the darkness and a poignant plea to take back the dark as the Hour of God, as the great friend of faith, awakening, and soul nourishment.”—Gail Straub, co-founder of Empowerment Institute and author of Returning to My Mother’s House“Wonder, solitude, quiet, intimacy, the holy—darkness holds these treasures and more. If we want to connect with God, argues Strand in this wise and compassionate book, we will ‘awaken to the dark.’ ”—Paul Bogard, author of The End of Night“Revolutionary! This wondrous book reminds of a forgotten place, a place obliterated but our screens and shinning surfaces that catch the glancing light and hide the depths from us.” —Joan Halifax Roshi“Expanding your vision with darkness.” —Spirituality and Practice