Effervescent by Oliver Meech

Bring fresh plots, practical methods, and playful audience interaction to your magic with Effervescent by Oliver Meech. This hardback book offers 19 tricks and 11 ideas, mostly for cards, with several routines that can scale between close-up and parlor performances.

• Three people share the magic: In “The Other Three Magicians,” each participant gets to experience being both magician and audience member.
• Music meets perception: “Synesthesia” simulates a participant seeing colors while hearing music.
• A memorable coin moment: In “Coin Jar,” a coin vanishes from a participant’s hand and penetrates a sealed pasta sauce jar with its safety button still down.
• Ideas for different settings: Several tricks are designed to work in both close-up and parlor performances.
• More than tricks: Two essays on creativity offer ideas to spark your own magical thinking.

Explore playful pieces such as “Pinky Perch,” a walkaround option for when spectators have their hands full, and “Trick of the Months,” a lead-in to Shuffle-Bored that assumes knowledge of Aronson’s method. The book is a 180-page hardback with a color cover and black-and-white interior, in US Trade size: 6 × 9 inches (152 × 229 mm).

Keep it close for a new routine to study, or turn to the creativity essays when you want a fresh starting point for your next idea.