7-25-06 Was this inevitable?

After the wildly successful "Da Vinci Code", it would almost be anticlimactic if nobody ever came forward to claim that they were part of the "holy grail" bloodline, a descendant of Jesus Christ himself. I mean, after all the hooplah, there would just have to be someone who'd be willing to cash in...

Interestingly enough, the person stepping up to the plate on this score managed to self-publish BEFORE Dan Brown published the Da Vinci Code, so a lot of the anticipated level of self-serving profiteering behind this particular venture is blown down to a hush. Of course, there have been stories, books, and theories about the Magdalene connection, the Knights Templar, and the south of France's obsessions with Magdelene for quite a long time, now. Why Kathleen McGowan is getting attention, or even why she'd be telling this story, is for the rest of us to decide...

Kathleen McGowan's website is here...

http://www.themagdaleneline.com/

...and I have to admit that I'm putting this on the blog without having read anything on it. But I did read an article in The Independant Online yesterday regarding the upcoming release (from Simon & Schuster, no less!) of her first in a series of three books on her story. That article is here...

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article1191931.ece

It's clear that Simon & Schuster expects this first book in the series will be a whopping success.