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What I Learned Writing a Cookbook as a Late Bloomer

October 30, 2018 by diannejacob 13 Comments

A guest post by Sara Bir

My whole life I’ve dreamed of writing a cookbook. But even with formal culinary chops and years of experience as a writer, it seemed like no one in the publishing industry took me seriously. So I guess you could say I’m a late bloomer.

It probably didn’t help that my two previous book proposals were hardly mainstream. There was my idea for The Great Big Book of Hot Dogs, which I envisioned as a lavish cultural history of hot dogs; and The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook, a book with nothing but pawpaw recipes. Do you even know what pawpaws are? Most people don’t. [Read more…] about What I Learned Writing a Cookbook as a Late Bloomer

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Proposals, Writing Tagged With: writing a cookbook, writing a cookbook proposal, Writing books later in life

How an Author with No Platform Got Published

January 9, 2018 by diannejacob

Win a copy of The Palestinian Table cookbook

 

[Update: The contest is closed. Commenter Kris Diede won a copy of the book.]

It’s a story so many writers dream of: publishing a cookbook with no author platform. Not only did the author Reem Kassis persevere, but her popular book, The Palestinian Table, appeared on many “Best Cookbooks” lists for the end of the year, including New York magazine, NPR, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent, The National Post.

Meanwhile, back to the story. The author, Reem Kassis, approached me in 2015 to review her proposal. At that time, Reem was [Read more…] about How an Author with No Platform Got Published

Filed Under: Contests, Cookbooks Tagged With: cookbook giveaway, Reem Kassis, The Palestinian Table cookbook, writing a cookbook proposal

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