Insubordiknit

the book in my head

So, like everyone and his sister, I want to write a book. Correction: I am writing a book. Correction: I am spinning a book. Well, in this fantastic world that exists in my head it's a book, in the real world, it's just a girl with an idea, an attitude, and a wheel.

It's been on my mind ever since the segment Inspirational Spinning (on my podcast) was so fun and popular. If you don't know what I'm talking about, get yourself to the podcast page and give 'er a listen.

The idea is this -- a big coffee table art book featuring big, bold, beautiful pictures of my yarns with a facing page essay/prose pieces exploring the topic and the spinning procedure used/invented to convey the topic into the accompanying yarn. My best example of this is from episode #2 -- trickle down economics (which, actually, has already been adapted and will be appearing, yarn and essay, in Pluckyfluff's new book), or even episode #1 -- shark attack, except the pieces will be less conversational and more uh...read-y. heh. Each yarn and essay will be an exploration into a topic, however broad or specific. Here's a tiny example of ideas/yarns/essays I've been working on:

the life of a mosquito
castro
industrial revolution
lead poisoning
trepenation
the bunyip
the panama canal
hatshepsut
c sections

yeah, as you can see, the list is super varied. That's why I'm thinking it would make a great coffee table book, full of super cool arty pictures of fiber and interesting facts about a huge variety of off the wall subjects -- who wouldn't want it on their coffee table (besides my mum)?

Bill and I have been working on this together, he's a superior writer, not that I'm a total slouch, but he's actually been employed in the field, that and editing, so the essays will be a bit more than me hemming and hawing.

Yeah, so that's the book I'm envisioning/writing/spinning. It's the book I want to have on my coffee table, or at least the tin-foil wrapped plywood on cinderblocks we call a coffetable.

Anyone want to publish it?

Also, nobody steal my idea, okay? If you do, I'll be forced to step on your toe.

Posted by jacey at August 23, 2007 09:07 PM