I have been busy lately, and I feel really guilty that I haven't been able to spend time on my cookbook.  I have narrowed it down to what I know best....baking.  I have no idea what kind of a market is out there for baking books, so I went to Chapters to check out what kind of books already exist.  I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing...thoughts anyone?  It seemed intimidating to look at all of the beautiful covers with fancy designs and stuff.  Lulu has some tips that I will need to read over...and memorize! I also found that there are some websites specific to book cover design for self publishers.  I guess that it's wrong to be worrying about the cover of my book first.  Well, first I worried about WHAT I was going to write about, NOW, I'm worrying about what it's going to look like!  Perhaps, I should be worrying about what I'm going to put IN the book.  

Rough Outline

Introduction of Me and my passion for the topic

Baking Tips/Advice ***think I need to move this to a different area (end?)

Baking Techniques-icing, decorating

Bakeware-pans, decorating utensils

Cookies

Desserts

Breads

Cupcakes

Cakes ***put with cupcakes? in one chapter?

Fancy Drinks- coffees, teas etc

end???

I think that it's important to have an outline for my book.  It's kind of like a map...I need to know where I'm going so I don't get lost in the process. That's all for now.