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I tend to do all my magic book buying at the end the year. This year, I've picked up: The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi by Stephen Minch Drawing Room Deceptions by Guy Hollingsworth Approaching Magic by David Regal Blomberg Laboratories by Tomas Blomberg & Andi Gladwin Mentalissimo by John Bannon...

Books can be difficult, especially books like Royal Road which were written in the 1940s. However, there are some great tricks in there. Poker's Player's Picnic, Designed for Laughter, Do as I Do, Intuition with Cards and Ewephindit. My reccomendation is to read through the book first and...

Generally, playing cards are not used for mentalism, but for mental magic. Mentalism typically reflects a demonstration of psychic ability where mental magic is magic with a presentation based on psychic phenomena. In my opinion, the best book for mental magic with playing cards are John...

There are a lot of great effects in Royal Road -- don't overlook them. What is next depends on where you want to go. Do you want to do "Street Magic" where you are performing standing up without a table? Do you want to do card magic that requires a table? Are you looking for quick effects or...

Bobo's Modern Coin Magic, page 276.

In that case, stick with Royal Road. You also might want to pick up Scarne on Card Tricks.

I'm going to differ a bit here. Royal Road is a great book for the price, but it is difficult to learn from. The book was written in 1948, so the writing is a bit more formal and the presentations are dated. There are some pictures which are difficult to understand and there are some minor...

I accidentially typed $90 and went to change it to $80 but it came out $980. $980 wouldn't have been a deal. Luckily, it was only $80.

The two keys to marketing are marketing to the right people and providing differentiation. Now, it is difficult to convince someone to have an event (i.e. they see your magic and decide to have an event just so they can hire you) but much easier to convince someone who is having an event that...

Take your time. It's worth it. This is a great exercise in using what you learn in Royal Road for other routines.

I try to be helpful. What I found ineresting is that you can use the sleights taught in Royal Road to come up with three methods of doing a Stranger Card routine. Although you could do the first method with one odd-backed regular card, I think using a R/B double backer could add a nice finish...

Actually, it was first published in 1950. For around $12, you will get 155 effects. There is a lot of great material in that book.

Try your local library -- you would be surprised what might be there.

The plot is generally known as "The Stranger Card" where the card the spectator selects is an odd-backed card in the deck. The effect here relies on returning the selected card to a set position in the deck followed by the sleight described in Royal Road to Card Magic on page 141. Although...

Your best bet is a book called Scarne on Card Tricks. For the price, it is amazing. The effects don't require any difficult sleight of hand. This is the perfect book for someone looking to learn a lot of tricks that are easy.

Hmmm, off the top of my head (including card tricks and tricks with cards): Shuffling Lesson Invisible Palm (From Paul Harris AoA / TA with a nod to Larry Jennings) Simple Sandwich / Search and Destroy Play It Straight Triumph Counterpunch / Four Faces North /Watching The Detectives/ New Jax /...