Advice on writing a book ?

[Andy Dingley]

I'm not so sure about this.

For modern printing methods, the cost of printing either is barely distinguishable. Neither is expensive. If you use either in a book, the increment of going to using them on every page isn't big. The old days of plates being bound together have gone. Colour plates maybe, but not B&W.

Secondly, the cost of producing drawings can be a lot more than photographs. I can do photographs myself - decent lighting and anyone can. Drawings however will need a graphic artist involved. It's not a huge cost, but in this particular case it's in favour of the photograph. Of course, I also need to produce the piece before I can photograph it.

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Ah, this can be a big detriment to some books. I know an author that had invested about $20,000 into ingredients to do a food book. His publisher was not going to give him a big advance so he had to finance it himself. He eventually recouped his cost but it took some time. He also has a bunch of books stored at his house. Ed [e-mail]

[patriarch]

[e-mail] (Charlie Self) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

So what will happen now is that 10 of them will all come in with due dates required within a three week period. ;-)

Patriarch

[Charlie Self]

Patriarch responds:

Book contracts don't work quite that way. If you find a book you can write & illustrate in 3 weeks, please let me know. More like a 3 month minimum if most of the research is already done, to well over a year for others.

Charlie Self "When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose." Dwight D. Eisenhower