"I know many will appreciate and value what is in this book!" - Kenton Knepper
"David, you never cease to amaze me!" - Cody S. Fisher
What if the most powerful sleight you've ever performed... was your voice?
Magicians spend years perfecting the mechanics of illusion-but the real deception happens in the moments no one suspects: between phrases, inside questions, behind a glance. The Architecture of Wonder explores the psychology, structure, and secret poetry of language as a tool of impossible influence.
This isn't a book of patter. It's a masterclass in invisible persuasion-from embedded commands and presuppositions to conversational reframing, time distortion, false-memory seeding, and recovery scripting when tricks falter. Whether you're performing walkaround, mentalism, stage, or casual miracles, these tools will radically change how your audience thinks they think.
Table of Contents includes:
Misdirection Without Motion
The Core Principles of Sleight-of-Tongue
The Pattern Interrupt: Breaking Mental Scripts
Framing & Reframing: Controlling the Narrative
The Illusion of Choice: Linguistic Equivocation
Conversational Cold Reading
Memory Distortion & Time Dilation
The Language of Wonder: Metaphor & Mystery
In-Between Moments: The Magic Outside the Trick
...and more!
(Physical hardcover book details: 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 147 pages)
