Michael Daly wrote: > I just did this for my kayak club newsletter and figured some > of you would be interested. Note the second book includes > a Paddlewiser author! > > Mike > > Guide to Sea Kayaking Lakes Huron, Erie & Ontario, Sarah Ohmann and Bill > Newman, The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn. ISBN 0-7627-0417-9 > > Guide to Sea Kayaking On Lakes Superior & Michigan, Bill Newman, Sarah Ohmann > and Don Dimond, The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn. ISBN 0-7627-0416-0 > > These two books are part of a larger set of regional guides on sea kayaking > published by The Globe Pequot Press. I purchased the first since it covers the > areas I kayak in the most (one trip described is only a few minutes from my > house). I was impressed enough by the first to go out and buy the second, > especially now that some friends and I are planning a trip to Lake Superior and > to Saguenay next summer. It should be noted that the eastern Great Lakes book > includes sections of the St. Laurence River, including the Thousand Islands and > Saguenay regions! Thanks for the positive comments. Send the corrections and negative comments to the publisher (we are very fragile people). Actually I have at least one correction to make. All three of us authors are on the Paddlewise list. Don Dimond helped us research the first book while Sarah and I did most of the writing and research for both books. Initially we thought we could paddle the routes together, but we soon found the overall territory that we had to cover was too great for us to do together. We split the routes so naturally I am holding to the story that all of the errors and poor writing is limited to Sarah's routes not mine. It turned out to be a real monster of a project primarily because of the logistics of covering over 5,000 miles of shoreline. Sarah had 11,000 road miles to expense on her taxes and I had 10,600. The two of us worked more or less full time for six months to pull it all together. After finishing all this we could see why no one else had completed books on kayaking all the Great Lakes before. A word of warning to anyone who has the romantic notion that they want to make a living as a kayak guide author. Most of your time is spent behind the wheel of a car, on the phone or in front of a keyboard instead of on the water. As for compensation I think I might break even by the end of 2000 and who knows maybe minimum wage by 2005 if sales continue to be good. It was a lot of hard work for not much money, but it was a rewarding experience just the same. I am not saying that you should not try the author gig.....but.....keep your day job! Bill Newman *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
wanewman_at_uswest.net wrote: > Thanks for the positive comments. Send the corrections and negative comments to the > publisher (we are very fragile people). Actually I have at least one correction to > make. All three of us authors are on the Paddlewise list. Don Dimond helped us > research the first book while Sarah and I did most of the writing and research for > both books. Well, I have to admit I was a tad nervous about posting the review here, knowing that Don would read it. Had I known that all three of you hung out here, I'd probably not have posted it! You know, it's not good manners to criticize folks etc. However, I hope that the review came across the way I intended - the criticisms are pretty minor. I actually purchased the first book in error! I had confused it with "Kayaking Georgian Bay", a recently released book by Jonathon Reynolds and Heather Smith. I didn't know the title and only knew that the authors were a man and women, so the eastern Great Lakes book seemed to match. Then I received the Qayaq newsletter of GLSKA and saw Sandy Richardson's review of the Georgian Bay book. Oops! Anyway, Sandy's review was somewhat negative, so I guess I chose the right one. Thanks for the books - I'll be making use of them for years to come. Mike PS - the route nearest my house is the Humber River one. If you paddle and drag your kayak another 1.5 km up the river (over the rocks and dams), turn right and go straight up the "cliff", then continue west one block, you'll be at our house. I prefer to exit the water at the yacht club and car-top the kayak the rest of the way. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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