Dear MFAer,

Recently, we’ve had a lot of turnover as well as a lot of growth in our pod, so if this your first time receiving (or reading) our monthly MFA FREE Art Spotlight announcement, please be aware that:

1) Our three previous spotlighted artists, novelist C.G. Walters (Sacred Vow) and spiritually oriented rock musicians Artist X and Echo Root, went over extremely well. I personally received numerous emails of thanks for spreading the word about their FREE art offerings, and heard from two out of three of the artists that the announcement had increased interest in their work.

2) All of our community members are eligible for an MFA FREE Art Spotlight by applying to me directly via my Gaia email at http://sol.gaia.com/profile. Before contacting me, please mindfully review the submission criteria by clicking here.

3) I’ve spent the past couple weeks attempting to secure March’s featured artist, and in the process have lined up some excellent offerings for April, May, and June. Nothing having materialized for March, however, I’ve decided to offer my FREE novel, THE TOY BUDDHA: Book II of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series, for your perusal and, perhaps, delectation.

Dr. Niama Williams, a literary scholar and host of the Internet radio show “Poetry & Prose & Anything Goes,” had this to say about Book I of the six-volume series chronicling the imaginary life of my eponymous hero: “BEGINNER'S LUKE is truly an experience that cannot adequately be described except to say that it is extraordinary and grabs one from the first word of the first chapter and never lets one go. Definitely a spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.”

While Luke’s irreverent antics may not appeal to all readers, I suggest that his journey of discovery with respect to the primacy of the imagination is timely and, potentially, enlightening in a way that only such material delivered with humor could be.

Book II, THE TOY BUDDHA, provides a particularly wild ride to the edge of spiritual illumination, achieved through Luke’s unflinchingly picaresque devotion to Experience. Writes one reviewer, Alyce Mooreland of Los Angeles, THE TOY BUDDHA “serves up a trenchant critique of the alarming tendency most people have to look outside themselves for meaning, be it spiritual or political–whether they’re giving away their power to a religion, a guru, an elected official, a savior, or the Buddha himself now back on the loose in these unprecedented pages.”

For a short time only, you can download both Book I and Book II of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series FREE at http://www.beginnersluke.com/page7.html.

To the Adventure!

Artfully yours,

Sol
http://sol.gaia.com