Travel book is done! Thank you Absolutewrite!

I have spent the last year researching, developing, photographing, and writing a travel guidebook. I have also spent most of my time here on Absolutewrite as a lurker watching people ask questions with others answering. Occasionally, I'd pop on in and ask something if I was stumped. Now it has all come to a final product. And thank you! Thank you all for asking questions and thank you for answering them! It was a long process and this forum helped more than you know.

I have recently signed a distribution deal with Quayside Publishing Group/ Motorbooks International and the book is now about to be released on Amazon.com!

Thanks!

Ron Adams

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982571003/?tag=absolutewritedm-20

underthecity said:

Can you tell us any more details about your publishing experience, the proposal stage, negotiations, anything else?

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Good news and bad news. Good news is that I got picked up on my first try. I didn't have to shop around for other publisher/distributors. Well I did have a backup, but never needed to go there.

Bad news is that it was a long long long process. After the initial contact, it took 3, almost 4 months to get the title accepted. Even now a good 6 - 8 weeks after signing, things are slowly ramping up.

I do have some advice. When I went to them, I gave them a marketing plan that outlined exactly what I was going to do. It is a 3-5 year plan that detailed multiple titles and sales range. I even went so far as to list each and every single potential wholesale customer. Yes. Every single one. Some were grouped together, but I had a list of literally 100+ potential retail / specialty trade wholesale contacts. I also included response rates, conversion rates, orders per months...ect. (BTW - my back ground is in mail order/ catalog sales - this background helped ALOT in creating this market plan)

Book is released on Amazon Feb 15!!!

talkwrite said:

Of all the posts here this is the one I wanted to read-
Congratulations!

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Thanks!