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John T. Colby Jr. is the founder and publisher of Manhattan based Brick Tower Press and J. Boylston & Company, Publishers. Brick Tower Press ranks in the top 100 United States independent book publishers while the J. Boylston & Company imprint ibooks was named "America's fastest growing small publisher" by Publishers Weekly in 2004.
Oct 8, 2013 · Sunfish sailor, skier, fan of Glen Cove’s and Dering Harbor’s architectural history, John Colby Jr. of Dering Harbor is a one-man-band who serves as editor, publisher, buyer, IT guy and book-stacker of Brick Tower Press, a David that is suing a Goliath called Apple for its use of the “iBook” brand. Mr. Colby, 54, has been using the ...
Nov 4, 2019 · John Colby, publisher and rights holder of The Secret, can be reached at: bricktower@aol.com. Things The Secret community would wish for if we found a Djinn that granted us three wishes: The community would wish for a new oversized (coffee table style book) edition of The Secret with large high resolution images featuring new scans of the ...
- The History Behind The Secret
- Sean Kelly
- Ted Mann
- John Jude Palencar
- Byron Preiss
- Hints
The Secretis a puzzle book that was published in 1982. According to the title page, the responsibilities for the book were divided up this way: The casques were reportedly buried by Preiss in 12 cities in the winter of 1981-82. When the book came out in the fall of 1982, Preiss went on a book tour around the country to generate interest. An article...
Sean Kelly was listed as the first author of the book, but it isn't clear whether he wrote any of the parts that contain clues to the casques. Kelly worked for National Lampoon from 1970 to 1984. According to his online biography in a National Lampoon fan site, "He is perhaps best known for his talents as a lyricist and poet, penning such classics ...
Less is known about the second author, possibly because online searches bring up several different people with the same name. The most likely possibility is that the Ted Mann who wrote The Secret is the same Ted Mann who was once a faculty member at York Universityin Toronto, Ontario, and is now retired.
The 12 images that form the visual component of the puzzle in The Secret were painted by John Jude Palencar. His initials can be found hidden in some, but apparently not all, of the pictures. Palencar was originally from Cleveland and was apparently the person who first suggested to Preiss that the Greek Cultural Garden would be a good place to buy...
The main force behind The Secret was Byron Preiss. He developed and edited the book, buried all the casques, and kept track of the jewels. Preiss was born in Brooklyn and spent most of his life in New York City. Oddly, his marriage announcement in the New York Timesmisspelled his first name as "Bryon" all the way through. Byron Preiss died in a car...
Over the years, Preiss apparently made several hints or direct statements about casque locations: 1. In the 1982 interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Preiss disclosed that the puzzles do not all have equal difficulty and that the difficulty level is connected to the value of the jewel, saying "The stones that are worth the most will be the h...
Apr 20, 2021 · John T. Colby, Jr., iBooks CEO and Publisher, Proudly Announces. BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- New York-based publisher iBooks, an imprint of...
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John T. Colby Jr. is the founder and publisher of Manhattan based Brick Tower Press and J. Boylston & Company, Publishers. Brick Tower Press ranks in the top 100 United States independent book publishers while the J. Boylston & Company imprint ibooks was named "America's fastest growing small publisher" by Publishers Weekly in 2004.
Jul 13, 2021 · John T. Colby, Jr., publisher of iBooks, states, “The new cover designs represent the innovation and creativity that successfully capture the emotional senses that embrace readers of classic...
