Press Release: TIMEKEEPER by John Atkinson

Fisher King Press announced today:

TIMEKEEPER
a novel by John Atkinson

"Within the first few pages, John Atkinson's TIMEKEEPER had weaved its essence around my heart and refused to let me go. Written in the same spirit as Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, TIMEKEEPER is a magnificent tale of a young boy who can't read, or at least he hasn't found the means to do so up to this point in his life. Misunderstood by his teachers and elders, and physically beaten into the ground by his father, Johnnyboy runs away from home at the age of fourteen and sets off into the unknown to find himself. What he couldn't find in his own father, the universe provides for him in a multitude of miraculous ways. In spite of all his suffering and adversities, Johnnyboy's spirit remains intact . . . better yet, like a boxer taking a relentless barrage of punches, he spits his beating into the ringside pail and comes out dancing like never before into the next rounds/chapters of this magnificent tale of redemption. Readers, Booksellers, Journalists, Reviewers, Critics, and even you Movie Makers, about all I can tell you is, 'Better get ready 'cause the Timekeeper is coming to town!'"

–USA Today & Reuters - by Mel Mathews

"An important new coming of age novel: An important new author."
—WNBC.com & BloggingAuthors.com, by Grady Harp

"A deeply moving book and you will be the better for reading it."
—Sharon Baldacci, author, A Sundog Moment

"Atkinson writes with a directness and depth that goes straight to the heart."
—Chesapeake Style, by Jean Keating

"Johnnyboy - What I Love About Your Writing:
To hear your resonate voice telling your stories
Stirs up memories long forgotten
Your writings are compelling, captivating
A page-turner that can't be put down
Eccentric characters and their names are unforgettable, delightful
Adventurous and more fun than a piano hurling off a truck
Plotting suspense and tension at every turn
Making us laugh out loud and cry in secret
Your human warmth and compassion come through boldly
As you write with your heart
You always surprise and treat us
Filling our souls with yearnings for more
And you understand the top of the hill,
'The Sacred Mountain'
making us soul mates."

–a tribute from Margaret Sibley

John Atkinson's novella Mercy Me was nominated for a Library of Virginia Award in 2001. Other awards include first place fiction at the Chesapeake Bay Writer's Conference. Over the past twelve years, several of his articles and short stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines.

Available directly from Fisher King Press
TIMEKEEPER ISBN 13:978-0-9776076-5-5
Publication Date: Jan 25th, 2008
Price: $21.95 First Edition Hardcover

Order your copy call 1-800-228-9316. International orders call: +1-831-238-7799

Click the following link to place your order for Timekeeper

Timekeeper cover image, 'The Dam Dancer," is a painting by Sheri Mallory

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Fisher King to publish 'Enemy, Cripple & Beggar' by Erel Shalit

With Great Pleasure Fisher King Press announced today:

Available August 2008 from Fisher King Press:

Enemy, Cripple, & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero’s Path
by Erel Shalit

In Enemy, Cripple, Beggar: Shadows in the Hero’s Path, Erel Shalit provides new thoughts and views on the concepts of Hero and Shadow. From a Jungian perspective, this forthcoming Fisher King Press publication will elaborate on mythological and psychological images. Myths and fairy tales explored include Perseus and Andersen’s The Cripple. You’ll also enjoy the psychological deciphering of Biblical stories such as Amalek—The Wicked Warrior, Samson—The Impoverished Sun, and Jacob & the Divine Adversary. With the recent discovery of The Gospel of Judas, Dr. Shalit also delves into the symbolic relationship between Jesus and Judas Iscariot to illustrate the hero-function’s inevitable need of a shadow. Clinical material concerning a case of a powerful erotic counter-transference is also an integral part of this deeply insightful body of work.

The Hero is that aspect of our psyche, or in society, who dares to venture into the unknown, into the shadow of the unconscious, bringing us in touch with the darker aspects in our soul and in the world. In fact, it is the hero whom we send each night into the land of dreams to bring home the treasures of the unconscious. He, or no less she, will have to struggle with the Enemy that so often is mis-projected onto the detested Other, learn to care and attend to the Cripple who carries our crippling complexes and weaknesses, and develop respect for the shabby Beggar to whom we so often turn our backs—for it is the 'beggar in need' who holds the key to our inner Self.

As with Erel Shalit’s previously published book The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego, comprehensive views of the concepts and images of the Shadow and the Hero are provided and theory further explored. While directed toward an audience of analysts and Jungian oriented psychotherapists and clinicians, Enemy, Cripple, & Beggar: Shadows in the Hero’s Path can be comfortably read as well by an informed lay public interested in Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, and by those interested in the interface between psychology and mythology, and psychology and religion.

Erel Shalit is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Ra'anna, Israel. He is a training and supervising analyst, and past president of the Israel Society of Analytical Psychology (ISAP). He is the author of several publications, including The Hero and His Shadow: Psychopolitical Aspects of Myth and Reality in Israel and The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego. Several of his Articles have appeared in Quadrant, The Jung Journal, Spring Journal, Political Psychology, Clinical Supervisor, Round Table Review, Jung Page, Midstream, and he has entries in The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Dr. Shalit has taught at the Department of Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv University Medical School, and lectures at professional institutes, universities, and cultural forums in Israel, Europe, and the United States.

Order directly from Fisher King Press by calling 1-800-228-9316. 
International orders call: +1-831-238-7799