If
you've come this page it is hopefully because you are a potential
candidate to write something for the book I'm publishing. I need one
practitioner and also one person who has experienced each of the below
methods.
The book is about
advancements in natural birthing - kind of a Readers Digest type of
book (very current and informative) with topics such as:
Home birth vs. hospital,
What's a Doula? Midwife?
VBAC
Vitamin K drops
Hypnobirthing
Waterbirthing
Inducing Labor
Breastfeeding (something interesting?)
Pregnancy Chiropractic
Pregnancy Acupuncture
Placenta use (I have written this one)
(10 or 15 page chapters)
I imagine a separate person writing each chapter and having his or her
bio and contact information at the end of the chapter, but if someone
wrote well about 2 topics that would be fine too.
After
each chapter with technical information about the topic I'd like to have a
story of one woman's experience with that method or issue. I want to
have left and right brain reasons for the reader to connect with and
hopefully be converted over to natural birthing. I'm also open to more
topics if you feel something is missing (I don't really want prenatal
info - it is more based around the actual birth and postpartum).
I am an editor and the administrative director of the LA Publishers
Association - a nonprofit for independent publishers. So I would edit
the book and self-publishing it, but it will be available for retail
distribution and you will only pay for the copies you buy.
I see this as being a great self-promotion tool for professionals that
have possibly not written enough to publish an entire book or if they
have written a book this could be another avenue to drive readers to
their work. Each person involved can order as many books as he or she
would like and make the profit on those as they sell them. I'm not
seeing this project as a big money-maker. Honestly, when I started the
process I just really wanted to get something published about placenta
use and didn't have enough for an entire book. Now I'm realizing that a
simple book like this could really make a difference and I'm getting
excited about it.
