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NEW BOOK IN THE WORKS AND YOU CAN HELP! (Scroll down for other new books pending publication)
"Weird Wisconsin, Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets" scheduled for publication May 2005 by Barnes & Noble Publishers written by Linda Godfrey and Richard Hendricks
Yup, now it can be told. A couple of months ago, Rick Hendricks (webmeister of weird-wi.com and news editor of anomalist.com) and I were approached by a couple of representatives of Barnes & Noble Publishers and asked to co-author a book by the above title, encompassing all that is weird and wonderful about Wisconsin. The book is patterned after the just-published"Weird New Jersey" book by Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran and like theirs, will be a hard-cover, full color "coffee-table" style tome the likes of which has not been seen in this state. Needless to say, Rick and I are extremely excited about the project. Both of us have collected this type of info just for fun for most of our lives, and now someone is actually asking us to put it in a book! The book includes the following and more.... • Roadsigns and roads with sinister, odd or humorous names and/or with stories or legends connected to them • Cemetery oddities, offbeat gravestones and inscriptions,
cemetery legends and stories • Local hauntings and spooky stories • Long-abandoned buildings and other structures, especially those with a story to tell • Colorful local people • Native American legends• Monster legends - lake, Bigfoot, black panther, hodag-type, werewolf or whatever! • Roadside oddities - large sculptures such as the Sparta Bicycle man, Fontana frog, Janesville cow, etc.or weird signs, sculptures, landmarks etc.• Personalized properties - yards full of eccentric items or original sculptures, houses decorated in unusual ways, etc. • Anything else you think is weird about the state that someone else may not know...try us! (right.......The Giant Fuzzy Dice People of Lyons, Bob & Carole Phillips....good example!) Who knows, there could be a sequel, and Linda will most likely be working on Weird Michigan next. Please send any weird stories you have about Wisconsin or Michigan...it takes a village to raise the weird. FOR Now Out at any Barnes & Noble WEIRD U.S. -Your Travel Guide to the United States' Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets The authors are Sceurman and Moran, but I've contributed a synopsis of The Beast of Bray Road and several other stories from this Web site as well to help represent Wisconsin.Promises to be a best-selling must-have edition! Barnes & Noble.
Beyond Bray Road In the works, this book was inspired by all the new sighting stories that have come forth since the publication of my first book, bringing the sightings total to well over fifty. As the number of sightings increases, the wealth of data grows correspondingly, enabling me to see new patterns and making possible new theories and avenues of research. This book will take the question of the Beast's true nature down several paths I have either feared or refused to tread before..and will emphasize the supernatural and related Indian lore..Date and publisher to be announced. Your input is welcome, especially any sightings.... please email me!
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