Topic: What would you do if, you held the secret to BIR?

[Kashmiri Bob]

or how about "Old School BIR"

With a foreword by secret santa.

Rob 

[Kashmiri Bob]

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[Secret Santa]

or how about "Old School BIR"

With a foreword by secret santa.

Rob 

I've yet to taste the curries made with the 'new secrets' so I can't give the thumbs up yet.  ;D

Hmmm... there's a thought..."New Secrets of the BIR". That is, after all, what we're being promised here.

[Malc.]

How about:

The Ruby Master - All your favourite recipes from an Indian Restaurant Curry Chef

Ruby Recipes - All your favourite Indian Restaurant Curry Recipes

Malc.

[Salvador Dhali]

Finding the right book title is a nightmare!

...The book title has to be the least important issue. What strikes me as a lot more important is having tried and tested recipes which are good enough to warrant publication - easier said than done!

Yes, tried and tested recipes are of course important. But in terms of disseminating the book to the widest possible audience and generating sales, the title is THE most important issue.

At the risk of repeating myself, when searching for a book on BIR cookery, there are certain words that people will type into search engines, online book stores, etc.

If your book title doesn't contain at least one (preferably more) of these words in either the main title or the subtitle, then the chances of it being discovered by a potential buyer are pretty much zero.

[curryhell]

issue.

At the risk of repeating myself, when searching for a book on BIR cookery, there are certain words that people will type into search engines, online book stores, etc.

If your book title doesn't contain at least one (preferably more) of these words in either the main title or the subtitle, then the chances of it being discovered by a potential buyer are pretty much zero.

An observation very much worth taking on board from a marketing pov.

"Beyond the golden gravy - the key to unlocking the secrets of real BIR cuisine"

Welcome Jon.  Good to have members stepping out from the shadows who are well up to speed on the sites activities, past and present

@ SS -  when did you copyright the term "liquid gold" and in what thread SS?  I may be in breach of copyright  ;D

[Secret Santa]

@ SS -  when did you copyright the term "liquid gold" and in what thread SS?  I may be in breach of copyright  ;D

Lol!  ;D

I said this "Also that oil is like pure gold for starting your next curry with." on this thread: http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,4596.msg42725.html#msg42725, back in 2010.

But I'm absolutely sure I've use the term "curry liquid gold", although I can't say it was pre 2010. I do know it was coined by me though, as was the term "curry Nirvana", and a couple of others I can't remember that keep popping up now and then.

[sp]

Other things to consider when producing PDFs is that, unless you're wealthy enough to own a suite of Adobe professional publishing software (Acrobat Pro, In Design, etc), you're going to encounter a few compatibility issues when it comes to converting content to PDF format from other programs (MS Word, etc.). What you see is most definitely NOT what you often get!

Good advice, but there is one very inexpensive (i.e., completely free) way around this.  Install TeX Live, learn to write in TeX, and you can produce as many perfect PDFs as anyone could wish for.  The learning curve is steep -- too steep for some -- but the results can be fully professional in skilled hands.  See, for example, Amazon's "look inside" view of Prof. Rosalind Gibson's "Principles of Nutritional Assessment", or the menu for the Thai-An restaurant.

** Phil.

For quick and simple PDF creation at its most basic there's always the free PDF-creating alternatives such as CutePDF Writer and PrimoPDF, once installed you can "print" any document (such as those produced from MS Office and OpenOffice) and save as a PDF.

[Peripatetic Phil]

For quick and simple PDF creation at its most basic there's always the free PDF-creating alternatives such as CutePDF Writer and PrimoPDF, once installed you can "print" any document (such as those produced from MS Office and OpenOffice) and save as a PDF.

Agreeed.  But don't they lead to exactly the problem that an earlier writer pointed out -- WYSINWYG.  Unless you can select the PDF printer as Word's default output device, the line and page breaks will almost certainly change when you generate the PDF.  Adobe Acrobat (the real thing) has its own printer drivers, so if I set the PDF printer as Word default printer, I can circumvent this.  Do you know whether the same can be accomplished with the free alternatives ?

** Phil.

[jb]

Hurry up and choose a title!!!  I need to find out exactly what you've discovered!!  The suspense is killing me!!