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Just mooching around t'interweb as you do on a wet Saturday night and came across the Little Egret Press site.
They're publishers of specialist angling books - both new and reprints of the classics.
http://www.littleegretpress.com/index.php
One of the upcoming titles that they're advertising is "In The Still Of The Night" by Andy Spreadbury who, I'm almost certain, is a long-standing member of this site aka 'The Hat' and who was I seem to remember getting coached by Peter regarding the finer points of match fishing.
http://www.littleegretpress.com/action=viewbook&id=225
How many other published authors have we got on here (as in regular posters - not people who've popped in once and never posted again) I know there's Mark Wintle (Mr Roach[
]) and I'm sure Mac Campbell wrote a couple of books with Allan Haines.
If magazine or newspaper articles are included we've got lots of contributors - the current and former editors of Match Fishing are both members here - plus there's current and former members of the AT editorial staff and lots of feature writers.
It does seem to be quite difficult to make that jump from a 1000 words once a month in a magazine article to 100,000 words once in a lifetime to put together a book - I've never tried it but would imagine there's three big problems - firstly deciding about which aspect of angling you're going to write - instructional, anecdotal, factual - bearing in mind that you need to (hopefully) sell a few copies once complete. Secondly finding the time to actually put it all together - not just the writing, but also research and possibly persuading other authors to write a chapter or two. Finally - if you want to sell more than half-a-dozen ebooks to family and friends - find a publisher who's willing to take a risk on publishing a book by an 'unknown'.
A lot of the most famous anglers never actually wrote the books attributed to them - Kevin & Benny Ashurst, Ivan Marks, Billy Lane. Tom Pickering etc - their books were ghost written by the likes of Colin Dyson, Colin Graham or John Godwin.
The words were by the anglers themselves - the ghost writers job was to get the information onto paper and make it actually readable. I believe Ivan Marks weekly column for Angling Times was ghost written too.
I'm sure there must be one or two other authors who grace this forum with their presence - there's certainly one or two I'd like to see in print although I'll save their blushes by not naming names.
Simon
They're publishers of specialist angling books - both new and reprints of the classics.
http://www.littleegretpress.com/index.php
One of the upcoming titles that they're advertising is "In The Still Of The Night" by Andy Spreadbury who, I'm almost certain, is a long-standing member of this site aka 'The Hat' and who was I seem to remember getting coached by Peter regarding the finer points of match fishing.
http://www.littleegretpress.com/action=viewbook&id=225
How many other published authors have we got on here (as in regular posters - not people who've popped in once and never posted again) I know there's Mark Wintle (Mr Roach[
If magazine or newspaper articles are included we've got lots of contributors - the current and former editors of Match Fishing are both members here - plus there's current and former members of the AT editorial staff and lots of feature writers.
It does seem to be quite difficult to make that jump from a 1000 words once a month in a magazine article to 100,000 words once in a lifetime to put together a book - I've never tried it but would imagine there's three big problems - firstly deciding about which aspect of angling you're going to write - instructional, anecdotal, factual - bearing in mind that you need to (hopefully) sell a few copies once complete. Secondly finding the time to actually put it all together - not just the writing, but also research and possibly persuading other authors to write a chapter or two. Finally - if you want to sell more than half-a-dozen ebooks to family and friends - find a publisher who's willing to take a risk on publishing a book by an 'unknown'.
A lot of the most famous anglers never actually wrote the books attributed to them - Kevin & Benny Ashurst, Ivan Marks, Billy Lane. Tom Pickering etc - their books were ghost written by the likes of Colin Dyson, Colin Graham or John Godwin.
The words were by the anglers themselves - the ghost writers job was to get the information onto paper and make it actually readable. I believe Ivan Marks weekly column for Angling Times was ghost written too.
I'm sure there must be one or two other authors who grace this forum with their presence - there's certainly one or two I'd like to see in print although I'll save their blushes by not naming names.
Simon