Recipe for a Cookbook

How to Write, Publish, and Promote Your Cookbook

De: Gloria Chadwick

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

RECIPE FOR A COOKBOOK has all the ingredients you need to write, publish, and promote your cookbook.

Whether you're a great cook wanting to share your recipes, or you want to pass down Grandma's secret recipes to your family, or you're a chef writing a commercial cookbook, or your church, school, group, or organization wants to produce a fundraising cookbook, this book has all the ingredients you need to write, publish, and sell your cookbook. The recipes take you through writing your cookbook from beginning to end—from appetizers through desserts.

Recipe for a Cookbook is filled with extra helpings of information, ideas, and inspiration. It's a guide that serves up plenty of know-how and generous portions of how-to for preparing, writing, and serving a cookbook. Inside this book you'll find everything you need to know:

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• How to develop your cookbook's taste and personality;
• How to collect, test, sort, and write your recipes;
• What to include and serve on the side in your cookbook;
• Decide whether to self-publish or pursue publication;
• How to format, typeset, and illustrate your cookbook;
• How to make your cookbook stand out from the crowd;
• 101 ways to find and sell to profitable markets;
• How to create an online presence to gain visibility and exposure for your cookbook;
• How to promote your cookbook to all the right people in all the right places;
• Contests to enter your cookbook in to win awards;
• Catalogs and websites to showcase your cookbook; and
• Comprehensive resource guides for cookbook printers, distributors, book reviewers, and much more.

This book offers all the ingredients for creating, cooking, and serving your cookbook with style and flair. Starting from scratch, you're guided through writing all parts of your cookbook, then you're shown how to promote and sell your cookbook to make it a huge success.

About the Author ~ Gloria Chadwick has been a writer and a foodie for the past 40 years. She is the author of numerous cookbooks, self-help titles, and guides for writers.