Every Day Is a GOOD Day

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado – Hilaritas Press has published the first new book in more than 30 years by Robert Shea, best known for co-writing Illuminatus!, the popular cult novel written with his friend, Robert Anton Wilson.   Shea also was known for his historical novels such as Shike and All Things Are Lights , books that still draw rave reviews from readers at websites such as Goodreads and Amazon.  When Shea died in 1994, an obituary announced that a book would come out collecting his short pieces. That plan has finally been realized 30 years later with the publication of Every Day Is a GOOD Day , a collection of Shea’s writings. The book is edited by Tom Jackson, who has often written about Shea at his RAWIllumination.net website.  The book is expected to appeal to fans of Illuminatus! , to readers who have enjoyed Shea’s acclaimed historical novels and to people interested in anarchist theory. Shea published an anarchist fanzine, No Governor , and often wrote...

Posthumous book revives legacy of Glencoe author with cult following One of Mike Shea’s favorite memories of his late father came from watching him write. Robert Shea — the co-author of the popular series with a cult-following “Illuminatus!” and author of historical novels like “Shike” and “All Things Are Light” — drafted his works on typewriters before he purchased an early Apple IIe computer and backed up all his chapters on floppy disks, Mike recalled. Once he completed a book, Shea would hand feed each page into a letter-quality printer over the course of two weeks to eventually produce a 10-inch stack of papers he could package and mail from his family’s home in Glencoe to his editor in New York.  “I asked him, ‘God, isn’t this killing you?’” Mike said of his father’s printing process. “He said ‘No, this is the best part. This is the part where I take all of this stuff that’s been sitting in a computer, that doesn’t exist anywhere, and now I’m making it real, I’m physically ma...