Designing Miracles
by Darwin Ortiz

In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them.

Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you've already performing.

If you've ever been puzzled by an audience's reaction or lack of it, this book will dispel the mystery. It gives you a new set of tools for understanding how magic works, why it sometimes doesn't, and how to make it work better. Never again will you be at a loss as to why an effect isn't playing well. Never again will you be at a loss as to what to do about it.

If your goal is to provide your audiences with an unforgettable experience of impossibility, you'll find Designing Miracles filled with insights to help you do so. It will teach you how to use the audience's own thinking patterns against them. It will show you how to turn puzzles into miracles. It will do something that few magic books can: change with way you think about magic.

Pages 200 - Hardcover

Counthesaurus Jon Racherbaumer

Included in this book are 81 detailed descriptions to perform sleight of hand tricks such as:

All-Alike Count, Biddle Count, Broken-Up Elmsley Count, Everchange Count, Fingertip Rhythm, Gemini Display, Ghostover Count, Hamman Count, Jimmy Cricket Count, Kosky Count, Marfoe Count, Neo Jordan Count, Omega Count, Pinch Grip, Razor-Edge Pivot Count, Six-Card Repeat Count, Smile Count, Tokagi Turnover Coun, Unlimited Count, Vesser Concept and much more!

208 pages. Spiral bound.

The Magic of Paul Potassy

The Magic of Paul Potassy, or "How to live like a millionaire with just six scarves, thirty razor blades, and a great haircut!"

This newest publication covers the act of World Class magician Paul Potassy. This is not merely a record of a remarkable performer's repertoire, but a template for other commercially minded performers.

Paul's entire show, with all the performance details and script are meticulously described. His Sympathetic Silks, razor blades from mouth, pickpocket sequence, newspaper tear, book test, and encore card stab are all included, along with much more!

Hardbound with full color dust jacket, 6x9, 220 pages. Published by H&R Magic Books.

Professional Magic For Children David Ginn

This is a definitive textbook on the subject of entertaining children with magic, written by David Ginn, who has made his entire living as a kidshow magician for over 33 years.

Professional Magic for Children has influenced magicians and clowns around the world for over 25 years. This book is based not on theory, but on the author’s own performing experience of doing some 400 shows yearly at schools, libraries, churches, and family venues.

In these pages David Ginn discusses his philosophy of doing magic for children, the mechanics of his shows, and his methods of dealing with kidshow audiences. Furthermore, he details over a dozen successful routines, including Instant Art, Mis-Made Flag, Clatter Box, the Snake Can, Arrowhead, Stocks of Zanzibar, Ching Soo Firecracker, Disecto, the Boy to Rabbit Illusion, and Duke’s Dye-Version.

Yes, 28 years later, these routines still work and still play to entertain!

A special bonus of Professional Magic for Children is David’s detailed discussion of working birthday parties, complete with a description of his two birthday party magic shows. Any magician or clown who enjoys entertaining children with colorful, laugh-filled magic is sure to relish in these pages.

HEALED AND SEALED

It was the talk of the 2001 FFFF convention, performed by David Blaine in his national television special, “Vertigo” and now you, too will be able to literally devastate both magicians and laymen alike with Swedish magician Anders Moden’s Healed and Sealed Soda.

The Effect: An opened, emptied and crushed soda can slowly and visually heals itself, returning to it’s original state—the hole in the top magically reseals itself closed! To top off this mind-blowing routine you can even open the can with a pfzzzt! and pour the contents out into a glass! You’ll receive the only authorized manuscript with variations in preparation, handling and performance plus a section with questions and answers which allows you to utilize this principle to it’s fullest! Only one normal can is used. Easy to do!

“This is one of the most astonishing things I've witnessed in a long, long time!”—Matthew Field

“Spectacular effect. Absolutely ingenious. Best trick I have ever bought...hands down.”—Joshua Mossholder

50 Tricks with a Thumb Tip Book A compilation of tricks using  the amazing Thumb Tip. A definite must to go along with your Thumb Tip. The book contains very useful ideas, routines, and insight to the many things to be done with this super gimmick. Still just a TWOONIE At this price, you can't afford to pass it up! Price…………$2.00