New Book Shows How to Turn a Serious Hobby into a Profitable Business

This new book shows photographers how to sell their work and how to get it published using real-world tips. Written by a working professional photographer, this book will help get any serious and competent photographer on the path to selling and publishing their work.

Gig Harbor, WA (PRWEB) November 14, 2004 -- The book, 88 Secrets to Selling & Publishing Your Photography, is now shipping. This new book is aimed at serious photographers who would who would like to turn their avocation into a money making venture.

The e-book and paperback versions of the book are available now for purchase at www.mountainschoolpress.com. Mass market distribution of the perfect bound soft cover edition begins early first quarter 2005.

Written by veteran photographer Scott Bourne, 88 Secrets to Selling & Publishing Your Photography (ISBN 0-9761878-0-9) is published by Olympic Mountain School Press. How can I make money with my photography is almost the first question every serious amateur photographer asks me," said Bourne. Or they want to see their name in lights by getting a byline when their photo is published."

In the book, Bourne provides answers to many of the questions asked by students at the workshops he teaches around the country through Olympic Mountain School of Photography. The book is divided into three sections. The first section offers general tips for photographers who want to sell or publish their photos. The second section is specifically geared toward publishing and the third section focuses on selling.

Pre-publication copies of the book have already drawn rave reviews from the professional photography community. Scott Bourne's 88 secrets are a treasure trove of pro secrets and should be required reading for anyone who is serious about photography as a career," says Bob Krist, internationally-known travel photographer Bob Krist who is a contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler and Islands magazine.

David Middleton, a nationally-known nature photographer and author of 10 books, wrote the foreword for 88 Secrets and said, Let me just say this right at the beginning: Scott Bourne is a marketing wizard." Rod Barbee, a contributor to Outdoor Photographer and co-author of the Photographers Guide to the Oregon Coast, said, Scott Bourne is a marketing wolverine. The secrets revealed in his book work. I know that because they have worked for me."

88 Secrets to Selling & Publishing Your Photography is 132 pages long with appendix, index, and illustrations.

For more information; contact Jane Bourne, president, Olympic Mountain School Press. 253-858-4448 or www.mountainschoolpress.com.

88 Secrets To Selling & Publishing Your Photography
132 pp / $12.95 USA
Soft cover
Perfect Bound C1S
ISBN: 0-9761878-0-9
LCCN: 2004114837

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