Appeal to the group mind.

[pecunium]

I've got an offer to pitch some books; consumer how to.

So, the two subjects I think myself most likely to be able to write such a tome (or two) are some ideas on cooking, and some on photography.

What topics, in those subject areas, do you 1: see a lack (the photo books will probably have to deal with digital mostly. Feel free to consider aspects of "printmaking" as well. That would include making photos for the web), and 2: think I might have some ideas which would be worth having collected, all in one place.

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

One of your great assets as a writer is voice. I think a cookbook will allow you more scope than a photography book to show it off.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I am hoping to pitch both. My father's editor just got moved up to acquisitions for "consumer books". She is looking for ideas.

I have some track record doing tech edits for photo.

I don't want to commit to two books at the same time (that's deadline pressure I don't need).

I was thinking of a cookbook on the lines of the photo book zoje_george is talking about, but for cooks.

Not a recipe book, but an overview of first principles, as well as how to build on that (the improvisational jazz aspects of cookery).

The photo book has less in the way of mental hurdles, people have Alton Brown, et al, on the brain, and I don't have the CV of a Collichio (whose, "Think like a chef" is a great book), so getting that out seems less likely.

I also don't know that the line they are pushing has that aspect.

But yeah, there are satisfaction aspects of a cookbook which make it the more tempting prospect.

TK