Armageddon Pharmacy...

...is finally done and available for sale on Amazon.

Many days it felt like it would never happen.  The constant research and re-writing are part and parcel to compiling an herbal reference.  I did not bank on the guy I selected to do the formatting introducing more of his own errors into the manuscript and adding in typos along the way.  And then expecting me to correct them.  And messing with the indexing.  And making excuses all along the way for why a project he promised to deliver in two weeks took a full eight weeks.  For the first three deadlines he missed, I agreed to extend the delivery deadline.  I finally realized that these extensions were important to him maintaining a good online image.  When I finally refused to extend the delivery deadline any further, progress magically began.

Anyway, Armageddon Pharmacy covers all the herbal and other natural remedies that have appeared on the blog over the past six years.  The previous three books have basically been lifted directly from the blog, with much blog-gy stuff deleted (because you don't need my family details in your references), while retaining all the information you do need.  Armageddon Pharmacy differs in that I had to go back and do a lot more research.  In the beginning of the blog, I didn't document well because I was only writing for my family and close friends.  Thus I needed to research many of the early herbs in much more depth and document sources.  And then there are the herbs that I researched a bit later after I began documenting better.  And then, when I began compiling the manuscript and had questions, I'd do more digging and find that so much more research had been conducted.  New studies, new findings.  So there was more to add.  All this new material is not on the blog, only in the book.  Maybe someday I will post them back on the blog.  

In addition, the early herb articles weren't standardized at all.  Formatting varied from one herb to the next.  In the book it has all been standardized.  Another thing that differs is that the sources appear as footnotes at the bottom of each page.  I really wanted to organize them in a much more efficient manner, but it just wasn't possible.  In a future edition (if we last that long--I'm not holding my breath!) when the self-publishing programs improve, that will change.  The formatter just wanted me to list the references at the end of each section, but I refused.  When I am researching, I want to know the exact source for each individual fact so that I can check for myself.  I think many of you feel the same.  

I hope you like the cover.  When my family said they didn't like the other covers, I decided to go for a different look.  If you don't like it, let me know, and I'll go with my original guy for the next book.

And finally, Armageddon Pharmacy is a bit more expensive than the other books, and I apologize for that.  It's over 700 pages, so of course it's going to cost more.  

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