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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1919618, member: 41863&quot;]Hey guys, I was wondering if any of our published authors had any insight or advice to give about putting a book together to be published.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know its a monumental task to undertake and I am thinking if I start forming the idea now, then say in 10-15 years I will have the necessary information ready to be arranged and printed. I want to do a definitive encyclopedia on a whole design and not just pick a single series from that engraver. So for instance, if I was thinking about doing the Barber coins, then the book would include a compilation of all of the known information I could gather on the Dime, Quarter, Half Dollar, and Trade Dollar. Set-up along the lines of:</p><p><br /></p><p>Foreword</p><p>Introduction about myself and why I have the necessary knowledge to write the book and my collecting experience</p><p>Information about designer</p><p>Information about the time period and its relation to how and why the coins were made</p><p>General Info about the first design (Barbers would be dimes)</p><p>Variety and Diagnostic info about the first design</p><p>General Info about design two (barber quarters)</p><p>Variety and Daignostic info about the second design</p><p>Repeat for the following subsequent design</p><p>Conclusion</p><p><br /></p><p>My main concerns are how do you compile the pictures of the coins needed to show the diagnostics (assuming a publication previously existed detailing varieties)? Is that something I would have to pair up with an author from a previous book, or is that something that I have to find and do myself? The numbers and the population reports and the known varieties can be gathered fairly easily from existing publications and various organizations that handle these coins, so not overly concerned there.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, it is just a budding idea and I want to sort of test the water before moving further at a break neck speed. In fact, my main goal for the moment is finding all of the pre-existing references that I can and reading through them to gather as much information that has already been written. I think the ANA library is going to be the fastest way to find those hard to locate books that I need. At least to get my eyeballs on them and see if this is something I want to tackle further.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe I have a good idea and know of a niche I can fill and also educate folks and give them some updated material to reference for their collection. Its just a matter of finding the old information, understanding it, and then adding my own touch and some updates along with compiling it how I want. All in all I think its going to be a winner though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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