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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[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I certainly need a good book on digital cameras, photography, and web (& other) manipulation of images. There may be some out there, but the field is developing so rapidly that anything useful would have to be purchased new (and would be dreadfully expensive), and I don't have an Adviser of known dependability.

Whether you're the person to write the one I need, I' don't know. I think you're capable of writing fairly complex informational material on the necessary basis of "the reader is intelligent, and totally ignorant", but in this area the information needs to be extremely complex if it is to be useful at all.

Anyone who knows enough about a subject to write a book (_pace_ H. G. Wells' "When I want to learn about something, I write a book on it") is almost certain to catch a serious case of Expertitis (diagnostic: "Everyone knows this, of course, so I don't have to explain it"). You're unlikely to be immune, and you might be especially susceptible. Probably this would depend, in the event, on your Editor and your choice of Beta Readers, with some side-ranging into time & space limitations.

I don't know whether to wish you Good Luck or not -- it's almost certain to turn out to involve far more Work and Time than you will estimate.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

On the subject of buying, there's been enough time that second, and third, generation, cameras are now on the used market.

I know several good suppliers of same (not trivially cheap, but not the same as buying equivalent levels of tech new).

Tell me what you are looking to be able to do, and what you have by way of film cameras (because legacy hardware can still be used and some aspects of digital make it better than it, at first, appears).

TK