Food Wine Budapest doesn’t officially come out until next week (Tuesday to be exact), and it has already gotten a few nice reviews. One of my favorite websites, Chow.com has written it up, and so has author/journalist John Mariani. In fact, Mariani has listed it as one of the “best food and drink books [...]
This blog has been pretty neglected over the past few months. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been writing. In fact, I have too much interesting stuff on my plate right now, which has left no time for paying attention to this poor blog.
I have been contributing to Chew.hu on and off for awhile [...]
Writing a Book:
Sitting down at the computer to actually start writing a book is quite an intimidating task. Looking at the screen–knowing that the blankness has to be turned into an entire book of a certain length in a certain amount of time–was overwhelming, to say the least. But not as much as it could [...]
Publishers and Contracts:
I don’t know whether or not this was the right decision, but I decided to find a publisher on my own rather than going through an agent. It wasn’t because I was trying to avoid the 15 percent agent’s cut, but because I thought that the book would be too much of a [...]
The Pre-Book Phase:
I can’t say exactly when the idea for writing this book occurred to me. It happened gradually, after I moved to Budapest and began attempting to find my way around the city’s food scene. I quickly realized that I was going to get little help from most of my guidebooks, which had restaurant [...]
How Books Are Made:
Before I began writing my culinary guidebook to Budapest and Hungary, and even during the process of writing it, I had no idea how much work really went into publishing one single book. (My book, by the way, has turned into two separate books somewhere along the way). Since there are [...]
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