Posted here with permission from Lloyd Pye.

Hi, Everyone:

It's been two months since the last update, when I announced myparticipation in the filming of a new National Geographic documentary featuring the Starchild. I also announced that we'd finally secured a top New York literary agent to handle the new Starchild book I wrote. This is to bring you up to date on those important developments, along with two others that might be of interest.

First, National Geographic. The show will be a segment on the new "Is It Real?" series they're producing. Its theme will be "Ancient Astronauts." Featured will be Erich Von Daniken, the man who started it all; Zecharia Sitchin, the man who lifted it to another level; and a few other lesser players, including myself, because of my association with the Starchild skull. It is still scheduled to be broadcast in late fall. I will inform this list when I have a confirmed air date.

Second, the book submission process. Well, that's been more complex than I ever imagined. In my younger novel-writing days it was simply a matter of writing the book, sending it in, and hoping for the best. With nonfiction it's a whole different ball game. Instead of merely reading the book, editors want to see a proposal that tells them the reasons you'll be able to sell it for them. I think I've been able to
do that to an acceptable level, but it has cost weeks of
back-and-forth with the agent as we've honed the entire submission package.

For those who might be interested, that package includes the 80,000 word, 320 page manuscript (double spaced) interspersed in the appropriate places with the 60 black & white illustrations that make the Starchild's story impossible to dismiss with the usual mainstream ridicule. In addition, there was a 12 page overview, a 2 page biography, a table of contents, a mock cover, a CD with the manuscript and the color versions of the black & white illustrations, a DVD with five of my television appearances on it, along with an excerpt of a filmed lecture, and copies of five magazine articles, two about me and three I had written. It has been no cakewalk to pull this all together and make it look as professional as possible.

The bad news is that we finished it two weeks ago, in the first week of August. It turns out August is vacation month for the entire publishing industry. Nobody sends or receives projects. It's down time in a business that for the rest of the year is intensely paced, so nothing starts up again until after Labor Day. My agent, who is also on vacation, has assured me she will get on top of the submissions as soon as she returns to her office full-time. She feels she can have them in the hands of interested editors by the end of September, when it then becomes a matter of determining which one, or ones, are interested in publishing it. As with the National Geographic show, when a book deal is confirmed I'll notify this mailing list.

On the Starchild website, Starchild Project, Amy has completely reformatted the two long slide shows that used to be there. She's broken them into four smaller units while adding terrific new details to the photos to make the skull's uniqueness crystal clear. Now they're much more compelling for anyone going through them because they make you FEEL the power of the case we're making with them. Even if you've been through those slides before, check them out now. They're vastly improved from how they used to be.

On a personal note, Amy has created a new feature on Lloyd Pye, called "Megaliths." She's taken my voice as I lectured about Megaliths, and tracked it over the slides I use to illustrate what I'm talking about. It's not like viewing a slide show, or a video excerpt. It's short, it's punchy, it's different, and I think anyone who checks it out will get a kick out of it. If you do, and if you have any feedback for Amy, don't hesitate to contact her through me at lloyd@lloydpye.com. She won't know if this is worth doing more of unless people let her know yea or nay.

Other than waiting for the book manuscript to find a home in New York, and the National Geographic documentary to be aired, we're battening down the hatches here in Florida in anticipation of the oncoming hurricane season. Wish us well, as we wish all of you good health and safe travels.

Lloyd & Amy