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28 goodreading ı JUNE 2010 HOW TO ORGANISE YOUR CONTENT Collect your family recipes. Contact anyone in your family who might be interested and ask them to contribute their favourite family recipes. Be sure to explain the criteria that a recipe must meet to be included in the book. And don't forget to let them know when you need the recipes. If you don't give a deadline, they may never get back to you. I met a lady who had a brilliant idea. Every year her extended family gets together for a big celebration. Last year, she asked everyone to bring their three favourite recipes, which everyone did. They were then collated into a book and a copy sent to the whole family. Look through any family notebooks or old cookbooks for hidden treasure. I was lucky that my Mum had a little spiral-bound recipe book that she wrote most of her favourite things into. It also had a heap of clippings and random scraps of paper. Recipe gold! Figure out a way to file your recipes as they come in, and use it. I had both written and electronic recipes -- can be a nightmare to keep track. I strongly advise figuring out a system. Choose your chapters. This can be tricky. I based mine mostly on the sections in my Mum's little recipe book, but yours will be different. There's no point in having a pasta chapter if you don't have any pasta recipes. If you get stuck, have a flick through your favourite cookbooks for inspiration. Fit your recipes to the chapters and identify holes. I quickly realised that while the sweet section was completely full, I had very few savoury recipes. It made our family look like a bunch of serious sweet tooths. This was because Mum knew instinctively how to make spag bol and things like that so she didn't write them down. Don't stress if this happens to you as well. Just dig a little deeper and ask around.You can always do what I did and include your interpretations of whatever is missing. HOW TO ORGANISE PRINTING Choose your size. If you're using traditional printing, your book can be pretty much any size you like. Have a look at your favourite cookbooks and take it from there. For POD (print on demand), they have a few different size options, so it's relatively easy to choose the one you like best. For e-books, again the size can be whatever you like. But if people are going to print it, best to keep it to standard printing paper size. I find that landscape is best for e-books because you can easily view a whole page on your computer screen. Estimate the number of pages. At this stage you just want to get an idea so you can figure out how much your book is going to cost. It's a great idea to get a quote now from a few different suppliers (printers for traditional books or different POD sites like lulu.com or blurb.com). For most printers, the price per number of pages goes up in multiples of 32 or 16. It's related to the way they print on a large sheet then fold and cut. How to Bake Your Family Cookbook by Jules Clancy is published in an e-book format, rrp $9.95. It is available exclusively at www.thestonesoup.com. When JULES CLANCY’s mother died, Jules put together a collection of her mum’s recipes and published them. So many people told Jules they’d like to pay tribute to their own loved ones in this way that she came up with an e-book to help them out. Here’s a ‘taste’, to help you get started. cooking the books cooking up a cook book
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