For a large part of his life my grandfather 1875-1971 was a ships wireless officer. He wrote a lot about his life through war time letters to his father and in a detailed daily diary (1905 - a 6 week journey from Kimberley, South Africa along East coast of Africa and through the Suez canal to London). He gives graphic detail of life on ship and of the various ports of call. I have masses of other memorabilia including photos of ships, ports of call etc. After the war he was on the Australian mail ships for many years so we have accounts of geisha girls in Japan, visits to volcanic sights in New Zealand etc. He was an opinionated man – back in England several of his letters to the press included topics about politics, religion etc. I think there is plenty of material from which to collate a book and I would like to discuss this possibility with a suitable publisher. Can anyone suggest who I might approach. Anne Loughborough England

Anne The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook by A & C Black contains comprehensive information about all aspects of writing and publishing. It costs £15+ to buy but you may well find it in your local library. I've used it for many years and found it very helpful. Good luck! Tony Holkham www.tonyholkham.org in sunny (but only just) Pembrokeshire On 20 July 2011 09:05, Anne Speight <annep.speight@ntlworld.com> wrote: > For a large part of his life my grandfather 1875-1971 was a ships wireless > officer. He wrote a lot about his life through war time letters to his > father and in a detailed daily diary (1905 - a 6 week journey from > Kimberley, South Africa along East coast of Africa and through the Suez > canal to London). He gives graphic detail of life on ship and of the various > ports of call. I have masses of other memorabilia including photos of ships, > ports of call etc. After the war he was on the Australian mail ships for > many years so we have accounts of geisha girls in Japan, visits to volcanic > sights in New Zealand etc. He was an opinionated man – back in England > several of his letters to the press included topics about politics, religion > etc. > > I think there is plenty of material from which to collate a book and I > would like to discuss this possibility with a suitable publisher. > > Can anyone suggest who I might approach. > > Anne > Loughborough > England > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Have you thought about self publishing? I have used several on-line companies to produce photo books and one Blurb also does both text only books and photo books. The final product is very good and the software pretty easy to use, with tutorials on the site. You can sell the books via Blurb, you set the price and they will print them on demand for you and you get any profit. Their website is here: http://www.blurb.com <http://www.blurb.com/> Hope this helps Gavin On 20/07/2011 09:05, Anne Speight wrote: > For a large part of his life my grandfather 1875-1971 was a ships wireless officer. He wrote a lot about his life through war time letters to his father and in a detailed daily diary (1905 - a 6 week journey from Kimberley, South Africa along East coast of Africa and through the Suez canal to London). He gives graphic detail of life on ship and of the various ports of call. I have masses of other memorabilia including photos of ships, ports of call etc. After the war he was on the Australian mail ships for many years so we have accounts of geisha girls in Japan, visits to volcanic sights in New Zealand etc. He was an opinionated man – back in England several of his letters to the press included topics about politics, religion etc. > > I think there is plenty of material from which to collate a book and I would like to discuss this possibility with a suitable publisher. > > Can anyone suggest who I might approach. > > Anne > Loughborough > England > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message