Dianne Jacob, Will Write For Food
Useful Tips, Interviews, and Stories to Inspire Food Writers and Bloggers
By Amelia Levin
Should you accept assignments for work-for-hire cookbooks?
Therein lies a key question in the cookbook publishing world. Work-for-hire cookbooks straddle the middle ground between traditional and self-publishing. Publishers use algorithms and other research to determine what’s hot and what’s selling now. Then they find authors to write the book for [Read more…] about Are Work-for-Hire Cookbooks Worth It?
In January, 2020, my husband asked me what were my top goals for the year. Instinctively, I said, “I want to write a cookbook.” At the time, I didn’t know that would mean a work-for-hire cookbook.
A few weeks later, I received a cookbook offer from Callisto Media. The editor wanted a cookbook on world curries made easy, using an electric pressure cooker. Here was a topic that fit my interests and aligned with the recipes on my blog.
I had heard about Callisto from [Read more…] about Is a Work-for-Hire Cookbook Worth It?
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