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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1919648, member: 38849&quot;]Since there are tens of thousands of &quot;suitable&quot; coins available for illustration, it should be a snap to license the rights to images for a specific book, and you will be in a position to say, regarding your terms, take it or leave it.&nbsp; Despite the fact that images are essential for your book, the images themselves are worth very little in the marketplace.&nbsp; You could make a contract with an auction house, or perhaps PCGS or NGC, or with individual buyers and sellers on eBay, using a short boilerplate contract which you pay an attorney $100 to write.&nbsp; Images are the least of your worries.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the book, start in the middle and work toward both ends.&nbsp; If you have, say, 14 chapters in mind, and today you feel like writing about Chapter 5, go right ahead; tomorrow, it may be Chapter 12.&nbsp; Authors who drag themselves to the keyboard and slog through 1, then 2, then 3, etc., in order, take much longer to tie things together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why do great ideas never turn into books?&nbsp; Because the neophyte author&#039;s afraid he&#039;ll make a mistake.&nbsp; The rule should be, <b>&quot;Get It Down, and We&#039;ll Get It Right Later...&quot;</b>&nbsp; The ideal -- splatter the book down in 48 hours, and every time you look at your tortured manuscript, you see something new to change and/or improve and/or expand.&nbsp; Trying to get it precisely right the first draft -- is -- insanity.&nbsp; That&#039;s why books never get written.&nbsp; I speak not as an author, not as an editor, but as a very very good proofreader.&nbsp; I was a proofreader for a literary magazine for over 20 years.&nbsp; I do not parse the creative process, I look for mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another task you may begin, today -- collect copies of all your competition, and study them.&nbsp; Don&#039;t re-invent the wheel.&nbsp; And you may want to quote from some of them, properly attributed, of course.&nbsp; It is 10 times easier to write the book than to market the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Proofreader?&nbsp; Go back and look at all MY old posts, comments, and sales ads.&nbsp; There are no mistakes.&nbsp; Free $1 bill sent postpaid to the finder(s) of the first three mistakes.&nbsp; After $3 has been mailed out, it&#039;s over, I&#039;m not rich, and that&#039;s coin money. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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