Back at it

Yesterday I got back to work.  I spent some time researching how to apply for a copyright and the areas in which they are applicable and their terms.  I also investigated applying for trademarks in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and I also looked into how to apply for an ISBN, the unique number assigned to all books so you can identify it for sale.  Overall, this is going to be a very expensive process!!!  Just those things along are going to cost more than a thousand dollars.  Oh, the poor credit card!

Tomorrow night I have arranged a coffee with the photographer I want to use to shoot the cover of the cookbook.  Lesley did our wedding photos and she is amazing at capturing candid moments.  I want to use that same talent to capture people enjoying recipes from my cookbook for the cover!  We are going to meet at Pusateri’s a gourmet food shop nearby (hey may as well eat while talking, never pass up an opportunity!) and we are going to talk through the story boards, and how to shoot it, and what I would like. I am pretty excited about it.  Next I am going to have to figure out what recipes to prepare for the cover and where on earth am I going to get models for the cover?  I could always rope in unsuspecting friends to be on the cover.  

I was also thinking last night that I should develop and release a website dedicated to the cookbook to compliment this blog and the Facebook page.  Oh so much to do, and so much to learn.  I have no idea how to have a cookbook cover shoot, or develop a website and the legalese of the ISBN, copyright and trademarks is going to take a few quiet nights on the couch to understand!  But in full swing now.  If only I could find time to transcribe recipes and learn InDesign – I wonder if sleep is optional.