Ozzy Osbourne's Pyramid UFO Claim; Plus: Updates on My Books

Since I am working on my books and not blogging this week, I am cross-posting my newsletter news items for those who do not subscribe.

• This week, Ozzy Osbourne promoted his Travel Channel Halloween paranormal TV show by announcing his belief that ancient Egyptian pyramids had been built in imitation of triangular UFOs. “The interesting theory behind this is it’s pyramid-shaped. What if they built a replica of what the ship looked like out of stone? So they wanted to train everybody about the fucking pyramids. It could be,” he said in a YouTube video. As odd as it sounds, his idea is an old one. The Church Fathers wrote that the pyramids were stone replicas of Noah’s Ark, which they believed was pyramid-shaped. However, Osbourne was probably just remembering the movie Stargate (1994), where the pyramids were copies of pyramidal spaceships.
  
• This week, I didn’t write any blog posts because I was overwhelmed with book work. The copyedited manuscript of Legends of the Pyramids came in for my review, and I have only a week to complete the revisions and corrections. My agent also sent the proposal for my James Dean / flying saucers book to a specialist for feedback and comments. The specialist, who is an editor at a major publisher, called the book a “unique, fascinating, and saleable idea” and praised the strength of my writing. She has recommendations for improvements to the proposal that I will be working on ahead of a meeting with my agent to discuss the path toward selling the book.