Hello I would like to write a book thats called "HOMEMADE IN THE COUNTRY" tHIS WOULD HAVE COUNTRY RECIPES AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT ARE MADE FROM PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE COUNTRY. I NEED TO FIND PEOPLE THAT MAKE QUILTS,TOYS,CLOTHES,BREADS,JAMS,(ANYTHING HOMEMADE) WHAT DO YOU THINK? DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA? BLESSINGS KELLY

-- kelly (milkgoats12@aol.com), August 25, 2000

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Hey Kell! I'll volunteer to be a choc fudge taster! Would also consider cake taster, pie taster, cobbler taster, pudding taster, jam taster, cow stew taster, fried chik taster, fried hog taster, turk taster and Iced T taster. Oh, BTW just who is gonna build all this stuff for me to taste? They need to get busy, I'm a busy man! Lots of restin to do, ya know. Old hoot, the taster of good cooked country grub. Matt. 24:44

-- hoot (hoot@pcinetwork.com), August 25, 2000.

Kelly, are you going to list the people in your book/ is that what you are selling/ also---or do you need people to give you their recipes, & how they made it-- or what/ I guess --I'm dense. If you are planning on listing the people by the time the book is written & published --lots of times the people no longier are doing what you wrote about/ or are alive, etc.! We have found by the time we compile lists of names & addresses for different things that before the list is complete it is no longier current/ or correct! I'm probably the only one who doesn't understand exactaly what you are putting in your book! Can you explain again for me --thanks! Sonda

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), August 26, 2000.

Kelly: Been there, done that, my answer is no! Your chances of getting a publisher to publish the book is about 1 in 50,000. Self- publishing is about the same for it to be even marginally profitable. Heck, I have a hard time even giving my book away as a free e-book.

-- Ken S. in TN (scharabo@aol.com), August 26, 2000.

Hey, Ken, what kinda book did you write?

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), August 26, 2000.

Have had several books published and it aint easy..First, if you believe there is a market, then get yourself a copy of Writers' Digest from the library..look up publishers who will accept unsolicited manuscripts,write a query letter to them, with no more than a small sample of your writing.If they are interested, they will call you.I do not mean to be negative, but there are more excellent writers out there than there are published excellent writers.Good luck and God bless.

-- Lesley (martchas@gateway.net), August 26, 2000.

I make pots, grow ducks, chickens, geese in Hardwick, Mass. The name of my farm is Golden Egg Farm Pottery. Thanks!

-- kate (cmorreale@crysral-mtn.com), August 26, 2000.

Leann: The book is titled "How to Make Extra Money in the Country." Started out as a file folder full of possible opportunities I cut out of the newspapers, magazines, etc. Worked up some of them for a short series in Countryside. Got a call from a NYC book editor, who subscribed to CS, asking me to submit an outline and the first couple of chapters. However, by the time I got it ready she was gone and they were no longer interested. Decided to complete and self-publish it. Basically broke-even on cost. Anyone who wants a free e-book can e-mail me. However, for some reason I can't send it as an attachment to anyone on hotmail.com. Perhaps too large of a file. In this case just send me five first class stamps (Ken Scharabok, 1645 West Blue Creek Road, Waverly, TN 37185) and I'll provide it on a diskette.

-- Ken S. in TN (scharabo@aol.com), August 28, 2000.