Kisckstarter Cookbook
This is an interesting project that's now looking for funding through Kickstarter. An author named Tara Alan is trying to reach an $11,500 goal in order to produce a cookbook she's been working on where she's travels Europe, called Bike, Camp, Cook. I bike, but don't cook much. Camp to me is a drag show with Miss Richfield at the Crown and Anchor in P'town. But I supposed there are others would be interested in something like this, and Kickstarter is now funding projects like this that trad publishers would never have touched in the past.
If you’re not a wizard in the kitchen, don’t worry—I’ve poured loads of cooking know-how into these pages. After years as a head chef for a two-person cycling team, I’ve made a lot of mistakes you can learn from! The first half of the book is filled with everything you’ll need to know to start making delicious meals on a one burner stove.
For me the key word here is one-burner stove. Not going to happen any time soon. But even though this isn't for me, I actually do think there's a market for it, and that there will be a bigger market in the future. I recently read about these mini condos popping up in cities all over the US where people are scaling back to a room that's only a few hundred square feet.
You can read more here, where there's even a video about the project.
Address and Writing Success
When it comes to a physical address I have always believed in the old saying, location, location, location when it comes to real estate values and for business reasons. However, this next piece by Lev Raphael has left me wondering why anyone would give him a column anywhere. This isn't the first time I've felt that way about Raphael's columns, and I'm certain it won't be the last, but in the article he makes a broad assumption that's not based on any viable facts, and he draws no conclusion whatsoever...other than the suggestion that writers are more successful if they live in places like NY.
And if you're in a media nexus like New York, you're more able to make face-to-face connections with other writers, with reviewers, with editors and agents at parties, book signings and readings. These are precious contacts that writers living in East Podunk just can't make happen for themselves. Random contacts at summer writing workshops and yearly conferences aren't the same thing.
Words like "media nexus" don't impress me, not even if you're driving a Lexus. I actually do agree this address deal used to be true up until a few years ago. I also think that where you go to college makes a huge difference, too, with regard to the kinds of lifelong contacts you'll make. But right now I know as many struggling writers living in New York as I do in East Podunk. In fact, there's never been a more wonderful time in the history of publishing for writers because this old rule that we all need to live in places like New York is getting weaker and weaker. And writers from places like this East Podunk aren't facing the address challenge as much as they did in the past. Now the best address for most writers is their web address.
You can read more here if you are so inclined to read pieces that are mainly written to do nothing more than fill a page with words.
I don't review books often, but I do review bloggers and when I see bad advice like this that might discourage the next great author from East Podunk I'm not afraid to offer my own opinion.
Wednesday 18 September 2013
Kickstarter Cookbook; Address and Writing Success
Posted on 17:18 by Unknown
Posted in bad advice, cookbook, hug po column, kickstarter, lev raphael, tara alan, writers' addresses
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