Books

Powerful magic from Raymonde Crow (edited by Scott F. Guinn). Fun, fooling routines tested at the restaurant, with the following features:
• Humorous, engaging presentation
• Audience involvement and interaction
• Automatic or easy reset
• No sleeving, topiting, or lapping
• Performed standing
• Ease of execution --routines that can be performed no matter how tired you are or how difficult the conditions

Routines with cards, coins, and rings. This book also contains lots of information on performing in restaurants and putting your routines into sets. Good stuff! Level: Beginner to advanced.

The Magic of Peter Vanspauwen. Peter's name is not well-known in the magic community--YET! This book has some GREAT stuff that will get your juices flowing, and like all of Scott's books, is absolutely LOADED with photo illustrations. 4 card routines, 3 coin routines, a wonderful rope routine, and two more routines for parlor or platform. Highly recommended! 96 pages, 226 photos. Level: Intermediate

This book started off as lecture notes for Scott's nationwide tour a few years ago. It ended up being more of a "Best of" collection, containing some of Scott's favorite routines from his (now out of print) books. These routines are FUN, for both you and your audiences, and Scott has used them to make a living. A great compilation, fully photo-illustrated.

CARDS
• Red Hot Mama’s Lips
• The Idaho Travelers
• A Visit to Boise
• Universal Appeal
• Ransomed Back


COINS
• Magic Western Union
• Glass Action Suit


OTHER CLOSE UP
• Rings Off… Rings On
• A Trunk Full of Nuts


Parlor/Platform
• The Card or the Cash Visual Matchup
• Million Dollar Chocolate

This is the second book of magic from my buddy Raymonde Crow, and there is some great stuff in here! Especially valuable is a section on working restaurants for tips. While many insist that it is best to get paid a flat fee, in Raymonde's experience, he has made significantly more money working strictly for tips, and he explains a number of other benefits to this system.

From the author's introduction:
In this volume I have opened with a chapter of easy magic. The emphasis is on entertainment and amazement without difficult sleights. If you are more advanced, you will find the material useful when you are asked to teach a trick or a class.


The rest of the material reflects my change from being the magician-in-residence at The Armadillo, paid a flat fee, to working for tips at a loud, busy restaurant. In this environment material has to be quick, to-the-point, and powerful.

I stand behind my material. My goal is to offer you the best value for your magic dollar.

68 pages, 19 effects, profusely illustrated with color photos. A real value for anyone looking to make money in restaurants with close-up magic.

The GUB is an extremely versatile and surprisingly simple technique, which can be used to accomplish or replace all of the following sleights:
• Control card to top
• Control card to second from top
• Control card to bottom
• Control card to second from bottom
• Multiple Shift (all of the above done with two or more cards)
• Sidesteal
• The Pass
• Secret Reversal
• Top Change
• Multiple Top Change
• Bottom Change
• Multiple Bottom Change
• Color Change
• Lap
• Gambler’s Cop
• Tenkai Palm
• False Deals


The most exciting feature of the GUB is that all of these applications are carried out from the same basic move in the same basic position. Therefore, your handling always looks the same. It appears that a card is simply returned to the deck and the deck is squared. There are no changes of grip or any contortions or movements that are drastically different from everything that has come before. In a word, the GUB will give your card handling consistency. And you have the added advantage that you can perform all the above sleights with relative ease once you learn the basic move. In much less time than it would take you to learn the pass, you will be able to perform every function listed above! This is a powerful multipurpose weapon! Level: Recommended for all skill levels