The cookbook project
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
It’s going slowly, mostly because I have 100+ photographs to edit for it, too. Plus, I need to re-write a lot of my recipes, because the person I’m giving this to is an American and I don’t want her to have to try to figure out what coriander is (cilantro, duh!). Considering all the time I’m putting into this gift, I’m seriously considering putting a little more into changing it from a highly personalised item into a more generic cookery book, then offering it for sale (or giving it as a gift to certain people next Christmas).
I’m only on page 30, and expect it to end up at around 200 pages. I need to have the whole thing completed by Wednesday. Oh, God.
That’s quite a gift…a bit excessive, non?
What if you give that special person a gift of 10 or so exclusive recipes, only for her, and take them off the book? And then sell the book to a publisher?
Seems like such a loss for the rest of us, hungry public…
It sounds like a really neat project. Is that “blurb” software easy to use.
Tatyana, it’s actually a collection of recipes from me and others, but the others’ recipes only amount to about 30 pages themselves. It seems like a waste to me to go to the trouble of laying out and publishing a hardcover book with only a handful of recipes. As I have so many of my own to add…Well, anyway, we’ll see how quickly I can get it done.
170 pages to do before Thursday… even Charles Hamilton didn’t labour under that kind of deadline. Good luck!