Chapters and Introductions by Beverly
About Blue Sapphire Books
Beverly founded Blue Sapphire Books in 2010 as a small, independent press to bring emerging traditions of contemplation and social mysticism—interspiritual, new monastic, via feminina—into the public sphere, and to readers interested in thoughtful theological reflection and deepening spiritual practice. Among our projects, we are working to bring into print Beverly’s unpublished works.
“The image of the blue sapphire appears in Exodus 24:10, and later in the writing of a fourth century Christian monk, Evagrius of Pontus, to describe the pure state of the mind transformed by prayer and contemplative practice. It is through the sapphire blue light of the mind that one comes to the place of God, in an endless, imageless intimacy with all of creation.”
–Beverly Lanzetta
Frequently Asked Questions
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To obtain permission to reprint or photocopy an excerpt from one of our titles, please read through these guidelines and email the following information to Marketing.
- Your name, address, phone, and email
- The title and author of the book to be excerpted
- The ISBN or year of publication
- The specific material you would like to reprint, including page numbers, with the first line of the beginning paragraph and last line of the ending paragraph.
If reprinted material is requested for inclusion in:
- A published book you are writing, provide
- Title, approximate page count, and expected first print run of the book in which the material will be used
- Territory in which the publisher plans to sell the book
- Print, newspaper, journal, or electronic media, identify
- The name of the media
- Its circulation or readership
- A scholarly paper, identify
- The conference for which you are writing the paper and your institution
- A workshop or lecture handout, identify
- The name of the workshop or lecture, date and location of workshop, and number of attendees.
- A course you are teaching, identify
- The name of the course, institution, number of students, and semester taught.
- For all other uses, state how you intend to use the content.
With each permission granted, we will specify a credit line, but it might be helpful to know that our standard credit line is as follows:
“From (author, title, city: BSB, date, page). Reprinted with permission of Blue Sapphire Books.”
Please send the above information to Marketing.
