Meaningful Conjuring (Softcover) by Ed Solomon

Turn a magic trick into a moment your audience can feel and remember. In Meaningful Conjuring, Ed Solomon uses storytelling and simple magic to bring a story’s message to life, offering ideas for taking your performances beyond a series of puzzles.

Solomon wrote 125 columns for The Linking Ring between 2004 and 2015. This collection brings them together with bonus tricks, essays, and more, drawing on his lifelong interest in helping magicians use stories to give their magic meaning.

Inside the book

• Story-centered magic: Explore short stories that use simple magic to highlight their messages.
• Collected columns: Read all 125 of Solomon’s The Linking Ring columns from 2004–2015.
• Additional material: Find bonus tricks, essays, and more alongside the columns.
• Softcover edition: This first softcover edition is perfect bound and includes many photographs.
• Book details: 348 pages; 6" × 9". Written by Ed Solomon, compiled and edited by Rolando H. Santos, and published by Meir Yedid Magic in 2024.

Keep this collection close when you’re shaping a presentation or looking for a story with a stronger point of view. Solomon’s work may inspire you to create magic that speaks to the intellect and touches the soul.