Old Style Book

needmoney

Def brill idea as has been said too many American tips, sites etc it would be a kind of modern day Mrs Beeton:D

MSE_Martin

"surely there's no need to get a journo to do it, the people on here could do it"

Just a quick one on this. The person doing it when i say journo would be a professional editor, in other words they compile books for a living, the info and thoughts would be right here off this board, purely the formating and 'book-ifying' would come from someone else - and i will keep a final editorial say (apart from publisher) ontop of that

trafalgar_2

mink35 wrote:

Yes!


If I make a plea for an odd blank page do I sound daft? Trouble is, in my favourite books I have all bits of paper in between the pages with notes on - you know the ones that say, 'needs an extra five minutes in the oven', 'also works well with lamb', 'add lavender essential oil for better smell' etc etc

That is a fantastic idea,would save the book looking like a waste paper file on the shelf:T

Galtizz

I like the idea of blank pages too AND it's old style I've inherited a couple of really old recipe books and they have a couple of pages at the end of each chapter that says 'this page has been left blank for you to add your own recipes'.

squeaky

And every blank page should have the URL for Old Style at the bottom

apprentice_tycoon

This book is looking more and more like a best seller by the minute!...can it be done by Christmas? I need to buy 3 of them y'see

Chipps

Definitely a good idea! And even those of us who are not going to get on the front cover (whether by fair means or otherwise...) can happily claim to have some connection with the book!!!
Guess what all our friends & relatives will be opening on Christmas day!

Ticklemouse

Chipps wrote:

Definitely a good idea! And even those of us who are not going to get on the front cover (whether by fair means or otherwise...) can happily claim to have some connection with the book!!!

Can you imagine someone who's never heard of us, receiving this book and opening it to see who it was 'written' by....

contributions by...

and then a list of us with all our weird and wonderful user names

elona

As someone whose user name is her actual name - less of the wierd and wonderful please

MSE_Martin

OK folks, you're not going to like this. I need to let you know publishing time scales - i hope this book will go ahead, if it does the likely publication date is between march and august 2006!