[Clayart] About writing clay books

Wed Feb 22 04:51:59 UTC 2023

Terry one day when I am big and strong I am going to write that book you’re
mentioning here, but I’ll include all the lessons I’ve learned throughout
my career.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:19 PM Terry Lazaroff <terrylazaroff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wrote a self published book.  Titled, “Looking Back”, Volume 1.  I wrote
> it for me.  240 pages mostly photos of my two dimensional works.  I
> published with Blurb.  I even gave it an ISBN.  When I sell three copies I
> must send two copies to the national library.  I have only sold two.  My
> daughter and myself.  I am not promoting because I am using this vehicle,
> just to document my work.
>
> I am working on Volume 2, that will be a 240 page sampling of my ceramic
> creations.   Volume 3 will survey my sculptures.
>
>  I am doing this because it is difficult to set up a projector or computer
> to show people my work. It is easier to just leave the book on the coffee
> table.
>
> Getting the photos ready is a monumental task.  I bought PHOTO. STIK to
> help.  It collected photos that I forgot about.
>
> Terry
> Enjoying the Spanish sunshine, and rubbing shoulders with the bronze
> sculpture  of Picasso, that sits in a plaza in Malaga.
>
> PS. A well known, international ceramic Artist from New Brunswick, and
> Quebec Leopold Foulem, passed away.
> https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1957457/mort-leopold-foulem-artiste-nouveau-brunswick
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 20, 2023, at 7:48 PM, ronroy at ca.inter.net wrote:
> >
> > Hi Antoinette,
> >
> > If it's profit you want I would advise self publishing. There are books
> on the subject.
> >
> > This would only apply if you anticipate good sales of course.
> >
> > Our book is now being published by Echo Point Book and Media. They get
> an order for our book and print it and ship it.
> >
> > They may not be interested but they may also have some advice.
> >
> > RR
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Antoinette Badenhorst <porcelainbyantoinette at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> 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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> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Antoinette Badenhorst
> >>
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> > Ron Roy
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Antoinette Badenhorst

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