[Leica] WAS: Nathan's Book List NOW: BEING PUBLISHED REAL TIME!

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Ted,


Interesting story on how your books got published. ?I have both medical 
books, and they are fantastic. ?I will be buying your latest blurb book as 
soon as I get back from our vacation, I don't want it to sit on the porch 
for a month. ?;-)?


Cheers,
Gene

 -------------- Original message from "Ted Grant" <tedgrant at shaw.ca>: 
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> A history lesson real time on being published and or getting published!
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> My first book happened long before what we can do these days. So I thought 
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> might like to know the realities of then, now and how!
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> A couple of friends, a husband & wife photographer team who had several 
> books published previously happened to see an A/V production of mine in 
> Ottawa using 16 projectors at the same time on ?cowboy life!?  All 
> Kodachrome colour 
> slides. 
> Later unbeknownst to me, they told their publisher in Toronto about the 
> images and the potential for a book.  Publisher phoned and asked me to fly 
> to Toronto at their expense for a meeting and would I bring a selection of 
> mages for the 
> editorial staff to have a look. 
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> We had the meeting, they looked at the images, they decided to ?publish a 
> book!? It was as simple as that!  ?Men of the Saddle, Working Cowboys of 
> Canada.?  I believe it?s on used book internet sites and still found, 
> maybe 
> tattered and rumpled, but it?s still a neat book. Colour and black & white 
> images. I believe some on the list have copies?
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> The next book occurred because a publisher in Toronto wanted to do a book 
> on the 
> Leader of the Opposition, as in Leader of the Opposition to the 
> Government, Mr. 
> Joe Clark and they?d like to send a Toronto based photographer to do so.  
> The 
> Leader?s Director of Communications said? ?No way, we have a photographer 
> who is the only one allowed behind the scenes for in depth photos. And 
> your 
> stranger photographer will never have that kind of access! Use Ted Grant 
> or you 
> don?t get the coverage.  Now that?s the kind of people you want on your 
> side 
> for promotion. :-)
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> Publisher said ?OK have him send a selection of prints so we can see 
> whether 
> he?s any good? I did, 200 11X14?s and the next day I was on the way to the 
> second published book by a publisher who?d never heard of me, neither I of 
> them.
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> The first medical book was a near disaster even though the medical world 
> from 
> coast to coast thought they were the most revealing and interesting of 
> anything 
> any had ever seen. One publisher shot it down on a first look. Had a bad 
> taste 
> for anything medical. I could never figure out why he even bothered to 
> have a 
> look in the first place! But then publishers aren?t known for their 
> abundance 
> of brains! 
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> Next publisher thought it was fantastic and encouraged me to continue as 
> they 
> were very very interested. I did so. Three years later with everything 
> ready to 
> go to press, their marketing manager quite pointedly offered? ?It?s all 
> B&W, nobody buys B&W photo books!?  BAM DEAD IN THE WATER!  Later there 
> was a 
> large gallery showing of the work for the public where a visiting 
> publisher 
> approached me with, ? This is the most fantastic medical related 
> photography 
> I?ve ever seen and it should be a book!?  In my mind the reaction was? 
> ?hell man I know it should be a book, so do it!?  :-)
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> Three days later on the phone? ?We?re sending you a contract to publish 
> your wonderful photographs.?  another one on the way.  , ?Homes?Mean while 
> another publisher producing a book of Canada?s Leaders.? As in the home of 
> the Prime Minister, two of them. And the official home of the Leader of 
> the 
> Opposition wanted me to shoot the material for the book. And the next was 
> on the 
> way. 
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> Then a re-make by a different publisher of the first medical book 
> entitled, 
> ?Doctor?s Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.? Then came ?Women in 
> Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work.?  A collaboration with 
> Photojournalist 
> Sandy Carter creating another smash hit if you haven?t seen it. The very 
> wonderful thing about this book is, two photographers worked in different 
> locations and hospitals and in the finished book you can?t tell who took 
> what 
> pictures we we?re so evenly matched in how we observed and saw the 
> subjects. 
> Quite amazing really. And extremely rare! 
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> In any event that?s some real time at being published.  Combination of 
> highs 
> and lows unimaginable, unless you?ve experienced it. 
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> Cheers,
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> Dr. ted
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