From the Eckhartz Bookshelf: Down at the Golden Coin

With over 80 books in our library, this year we're taking some time every week to highlight one of the books on the Eckhartz bookshelf. This week's book is Down at the Golden Coin by Kim Strickland .This was second book we ever published.

How would your life change if you met your Messiah at the laundromat?

During the horrible economic downturn, former airline pilot, Annie Mullard, feels she’s sunk to a new low when she’s forced to go to a run-down laundromat, The Golden Coin, after her washing machine breaks, but it’s here she meets a Messiah. Even though twenty-something, blue-haired Violet isn’t anyone’s idea of a Messiah, she can read minds, levitate Tide with Bleach Alternative and send Annie into past lives. It doesn’t take long before Violet has Annie’s quiet morning in the laundromat spinning as out of control as the rest of her life.

Reviews

• A lesson in faith and the power of positive thinking, all nestled within a satisfying story.

  Kirkus Reviews

• “Down at the Golden Coin” couldn’t be more timely or original, with the most eccentric spiritual guide since Clarence the Angel. Prepare to set your set your brain to spin-cycle.

  Paige Wiser, Windy City Live, ABC-TV, Chicago

• Touching our hearts, opening our minds, and moving our spirits. Absolutely brilliant!

  Linda Howe, author of "How to Read the Akashic Records" and "Healing through the Akashic Records

• Strickland beautifully weaves a story that shows the ability we have to change our lives and ultimately find that elusive happiness. She brings together powerful words and concepts of self-responsibility, passion, faith in oneself and universal experiences to demonstrate how we can write our own happy ending.

  Serena Wadhwa, Windy City Reviews

• Down at the Golden Coin’ is funny, serious, enlightening, and thought-provoking.

  Best Book Review, UK

Eckhartz Everyday

*July 6 is Sylvester Stallone's birthday. There's a great story about Sly in John Landecker's book Records Truly Is My Middle Name.

*On this day in 2017, Eckhartz Press author Bill Paige (Everything I Know I Learned from Rock Stars)  returned a record to a library in Arlington Heights...30 years late. The Daily Herald took notice.

*On this day in 1932, Chicago Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by a crazed fan. That story, naturally, is covered in some detail in the book EveryCubEver.

*Today is also Paige Wiser's birthday. Paige, a gifted writer in her own right (formerly with the Chicago Sun Times and Windy City Live), has blurbed two books for us. This is what she said about Kim Strickland's Down at the Golden Coin...“Down at the Golden Coin” couldn’t be more timely or original, with the most eccentric spiritual guide since Clarence the Angel. Prepare to set your set your brain to spin-cycle.

Eckhartz Everyday

*On this day in 2012, we released our second book, Down at the Golden Coin by Kim Strickland. Paige Wiser from Windy City Live said: “Down at the Golden Coin” couldn’t be more timely or original, with the most eccentric spiritual guide since Clarence the Angel. Prepare to set your set your brain to spin-cycle.

It was also the moment when Dave and I realized we could publish for authors other than ourselves. That was now 80 authors ago.

*On this day in 2011, Roger Badesch was trapped on Lake Shore Drive during a terrible snow storm. It became a famous story as he reported it back to his radio station WGN until his phone died. It also later became the cover of his Eckhartz Press book The Unplanned Life, which was released in 2020, and is still available today.

*On this day in 2016, Dobie Maxwell appeared on Steve Cochran's morning show on WGN Radio to promote his Eckhartz Press book Monkey in the Middle. 

*On this day in 2019, we started taking pre-orders for Janet Sutherland's book Nose Over Toes. A portion of the proceeds from this book continue to go to the Brain Aneuryism Foundation.