[Clayart] About writing clay books

[Antoinette Badenhorst]

Sumi, I will need a lot of time on editing time. How much freedom did you
have in regards to images and content?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:12 PM sumi <sumi at herwheel.com> wrote:

> Antoinette
>
> My books were all with the American Ceramic Society and they gave me a
> year for each one from time of signing the contract to when I was
> supposed to deliver the manuscript. Then comes the editing and so on,
> which is another 6-9 months.
>
> Sumi
> > Just like many of you I wrote dozens of clay articles and had one book
> out,
> > which was mostly a commentary about CM porcelain articles.
> >
> > I am however busy working on a book. I did not send out a query to any
> > publisher yet since ai keep flip flopping between self publishing and
> > finding a publisher.
> >
> > At age 66 I find myself busier than ever before, so I am curious to hear
> > from you about time lines once you committed yourself to work with a
> > publisher.
> > Thanks.
> > Antoinette.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 2:29 PM Paul Lewing <pjlewing at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I was out of town when this thread really started, so I’m not sure if
> I’m
> >> commenting on what it was really originally about or not.  But I did see
> >> Vince’s post about his experience of writing a book, and his saying that
> >> Mel had said that no one writes a ceramics book, or really any text
> book,
> >> to make money.
> >> I made a fair amount of money the first year my book came out, but it’s
> of
> >> course declined every year since.  And I got to do a lot of workshops
> as a
> >> result of writing it, but no one does that to make money either.  You
> don’t
> >> if you count the time for either of those things.  I spent pretty much
> all
> >> my spare time for 3 1/2 years to write my book.
> >> When ACerS first asked me to write a book, my thought was that that
> would
> >> be a great thing to have done, but not a great thing to do.  I was
> really
> >> right about that.
> >> I would also say that one of the hardest parts of writing a ceramics
> book
> >> is finding a topic or an angle that isn’t been covered extensively
> >> already.  Vince did that.  But no one needs another book on surface
> >> decoration or throwing.
> >> The real reward is in passing on a helpful body of information and
> seeing
> >> what other people do with that.
> >> Paul Lewing
> >> www.paullewingtile.com  <http://www.paullewingtile.com/>
> >> www.paullewingart.com <http://www.paullewingart.com/>
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> Sumi von Dassow
> President, Beulah Valley Arts Council
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Best wishes,

Antoinette Badenhorst



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