Survival Book

[talon]

I have enough articles on my survival blog now and enough interest from various people that I have caved in and will put the better articles together into a book. Since I don't think there's enough interest to capture the attention of a traditional publisher, I'll probably just do it through Lulu - a Print on Demand publisher. The quality of their books rivals and even exceeds traditional publishing, and the price for any buyers of the book is reasonable.

Once I have it together, it will be ready at Lulu, too, which is another bonus - it's done in less than the standard 12-18 months a traditional publisher takes.

I'll post a link here if any of y'all are interested in having a print copy.

Doing this as a book does not mean I will be removing the archives from Gallimaufree. See, the articles there are mostly rough drafts, things I whipped out as I remembered them or had to live through them again. I won't be polishing these articles up at the blog. The book will be polished and contain graphs and illustrations I haven't used there - and as a bonus the book will not be random, the way the blog is. It will be organized. I am still thinking about the organization. At this moment, I'm thinking I'll start with my philosophy of survival and then segue into the basic survival needs. After that I'll get into disaster preparedness for critical, short term disasters like floods, tornadoes, and such. Then I'll get into skills - that will be subdivided into food, gardening, and day-to-day living. Last, I'll get into apocalyptic survival because, according to my Survivalist's Pyramid, that's kind of the order in which survival happens.

No title, yet. I welcome suggestions, but being me, I may go with something completely different. I do plan to subtitle it: "A gallimaufrey of living."