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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Question:
How do you go about finding a cookbook publisher?
Answer:
That's kind of a personal thing that you're gonna have to do because there's a lot of different ways to do this finding a publisher is one thing that you might want to talk to an agent beforehand too or you might want to skip a publisher altogether and do a self-publishing yourself, which there are a lot of great ways to be able to do that. Now too you can do digital books. You can do hard copy back books of you know, doing publishing a book yourself that's more finding a printer to be able to do but then you need to find a distributor for this as well, you know. Book agents are a good place to be able to start if you really want to go down some of those heavier roads too to be able to say like, okay, I have this great idea for a cookbook that nobody's ever done before and an agent would do all the other stuff for you. They'd find the publisher for you and you know, all the other kind of steps for that. Now if you are wanting to do a cookbook There's definitely a lot of steps that are involved in that too. So, you know, not only a publisher an agent you'll have to think about recipe testers of people to test your recipes to make sure your recipes are and you know working properly. You'll need a photographer. You need to make all the recipes to take the pictures too. So there's a lot of different steps and making a cookbook and a lot of them you can do yourself, you know, and you can you can always do like a first draft of a book too to be able to pitch to a publisher if you'd like to but there's a lot of different Avenues and cook cookbook publishing so I don't want to steer you down to one in particular route because there's so many different ways to do it. You know, there are a lot of book agents that will take time to sit down with you to kind of see what your thoughts are on things and then you can decide if you want to go, you know a certain way with them because a lot of people might hire somebody to help them with their cookbook as well. It's like where they pay them a certain amount of money and then they'll like to all the writing formats and everything for them and they're just more used to writing cookbooks. Or you might want to write the whole thing yourself. So there's a lot of different Avenues to be able to make that happen. I know that's not the perfect answer for you Patricia about the cookbook publisher. But that's a pretty big question, you know in a small sentence there. So what I would recommend is looking up some ways to self-publish a book. There are a lot of different YouTube videos on self-publishing that you might want to take a look at and then maybe look up a couple, you know agents, you might think of now if you're looking for a specific publisher, you know, you like a publisher and you already know what you want. You might want to look at some of your favorite cookbooks and see who published those and then approach them to say look I have this book idea. I'd love for you to be able to publish it. It's kind of a hard Avenue because I get a lot of pitches for things. That's why I think an agent might be a good idea because they're really used to agents and you know their process through that but that's completely personal to you.