I am thinking about pairing up with my sister and writing a cookbook....?!
Answers: is it hard to get something like that published?
Well I hope I can help. We did a family cookbook. we have a company here in Nebraska called Morris Press that will publish your cookbook. You give them the recipes and they do the rest. we sold ours at flea markets and Christmas open houses. The quality is very good. Check out their website at:
www.morriscookbooks.com
For those in the Kearney, NE area or if you are passing through on I-80 they sell overruns of cookbooks at the low cost of 1- 5 dollars. It is very cool to check out. My mon collects cookbooks and this is a good way to get ones from all over the country.
Go for it!!
i think it will be fun and if you fufill your dreams it will happen :)
No, not be negative but why do you think it would be a success.
With all the cooking shows and celebrity chefs with cookbooks and not to mention the Internet recipes don't waste your time.
There are lots of ways to go about publishing a cookbook.
Just remember that the method of doing a thing is copyrighted even tho the list of ingredients is not.
http://www.cookbook.com is one of the better sites I have found.
The cookbook section of Barnes & Nobel is huuuuuge. I think it's a big marketplace. Look through various cookbooks on your bookstore shelves for the most often mentioned Publishing houses. Go to the publisher's website and they should have info about submitting manuscriipts. You may need an agent.
I think u should go for it!!
Anything u dream.
Go for it girl!!!
LOL
If you do, then please make dishes that beginers can easily make. Don't put 99 spices in when you can tell us to go to a store and buy a combination of spices (i.e. Ms. Dash) that will work just as well. Also use name brands so when we go to the store we can figure out what you mean. Also give alternatives to the first listed name brand ingredient if you know it. Sounds like a fun project though.
BOB, YOU ARE A PRICK! YOU REMIND ME OF DEBBIE DOWNER....ONLY A PRICK VERSION
The market is really overloaded with cookbooks. That does not mean yours will not sell.
Think of how to set your book apart from others. Look at cookbooks you really love and ask yourself why?
The average print run of a cookbook is about 25 000. in the book world that is not a lot. Many don' sell. Publishers only choose a very limited number of books to print. Visit some publisher website and look at their submission guide lines.
Hire a rep if you don't know enough about publishers contracts. Most writers get an advance and never see a dime after that.
Be prepared to set up book signings, interviews with radio and Tv station, cooking demos and prepare a business plan etc. Publisher almost always want to see how the artist plans to promote the book. They do little to non of the marketing.
It can be a fun project to do but make sure you do it for the fun part first. Money is not to be made with books.
Self publishing is more rewarding and you have control over the whole project. But it can get very expensive.
I've done a little research of publishing cookbooks. From what I found out, the market is saturated with them. Only the people who have EXTREMELY unique cookbooks can get them published.
An article in my local paper talked about a teenager who just got one published. He is marketing the book toward young people.
Too many cooks spoil the goose, is the saying.
So you and your sister paired may write a cooking recipe book.
But please assure this :
for every recipe there should be close up photos of both of you, doing the dish, more prominent and revealing all details, for easily cooking by us.
The photos of you both should overshadow the recipe details. Do you see the advantage. If we are not interested in the recipes, at least we can see you both very close up in different angles which will give us good cooked out food for our eyes.
As many recipes your people tried out in your family, and we will take care of our health and decide which to prepare and which not, based on the manner in which you appear in the photos. It is better if you can add Video so that at a click we may be able to see you live.