Posted in Book proposal on June 7, 2005 | No Comments »
Thanks to a hand-out by the CEO, I signed up for BookPitch.
I’m not green enough to imagine that it will help get this or this published, but hopefully it won’t hurt, and you never know.
The CEO insisted that 200 publishers will be signing up for the service. Again, we’ll see. Hopefully, it won’t be too [...]
Posted in Book proposal, Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Spain on April 19, 2005 | 2 Comments »
[Here is a piece on the same subject I wrote for Salon.]
[And here is what Prof. L.P. Harvey said about one of my models for this book, Richard Ford's Handbook for travellers in Spain: "I am glad to see that Ford still has the capacity to set people thinking. They don't make guide books like [...]
Posted in Book proposal, Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Spain on January 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I have had this idea in mind for a long time. No one seems as interested in it as me, alas (alack). So, here it is. Admittedly, the “sample chapter” is a bit slapdash. Here is a better look at the topic.
A brief description of the book:
“My Life on the Holy Mountain” is a biography [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Book proposal, Writers, Writing on January 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
“Five men left a West-end hotel last night on a secret expedition. It may prove to be the most romantic expedition ever undertaken.” — Daily Express, London, 1934
Sunday Driver at the Friday Mosque is an article that will document my travels from Jerusalem to Mazar-i-Sherif, Afghanistan, passing through Syria, Iraq and Iran. This journey is [...]
Posted in Book proposal on January 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Inspired in part by Scoble and Israel’s The Red Couch, I am posting my book proposal, such as it is. Earlier, I posted a sample chapter on Thomas Chatterton. So, to the hundreds of editors who regularly read this blog: please contact me if you are interested in a history of poetic frauds with an [...]
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