Hi everyone. After cutting back on posting on Slowtwitch, my bored fingers found themselves writing a book. Somehow, I got a publisher interested and- long story short- the book will be released in late August.
Very briefly, the book began as a challenge to lose weight: I read that only 5% of diets resulted in meaningful sustained weight loss. Thinking this was ridiculously low, I sought out to try to find a better way, eventually adopting a diet where I ate only every other day. As I lost weight, I became fascinated with the value of human intelligence and willpower in propelling you to achieve physical goals. I begin to test myself, first in running, then in triathlons, as I chronicle how I turned myself from a 350-pound couch potato into a competitor at the national tri champs. The book is- in my opinion- aimed at telling a story, being helpful/inspirational to those who struggle with their weight, and being funny (I have a solid repertoire of new-triathlete stories:).
I’m not trying to use this forum to promote myself, so I won’t mention the title. However, this is my first book. I enjoyed doing it, and would like to be successful enough at it that I can leave my “day job.” Thus, I want to promote it as best I can. Since there seem to be very few non-training triathlon books, I thought the forum might be interested in helping me. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might go about doing this?
Sorry, I have no idea how to go about being an author…but congrats on the book deal. Who hasn’t thought about writing a book at one time or another? On the other hand, very few of us do.
Send a PM to this guy: Todd Crandall - Racing for Recovery
(Sorry, I just did a search for a recent thread he created but couldn’t find it. It was only a few weeks ago that he posted it).
Anyway, he wrote a book (which I read) about overcoming addiction through Triathlon.
Possibly you guys could cross-promote your books. Not sure what the numbers were on his publishing run.
He would at least be a good contact as he has actually published a book about Triathlon and as you stated it wasn’t about the training aspect.
Hi everyone. After cutting back on posting on Slowtwitch, my bored fingers found themselves writing a book. Somehow, I got a publisher interested and- long story short- the book will be released in late August.
Very briefly, the book began as a challenge to lose weight: I read that only 5% of diets resulted in meaningful sustained weight loss. Thinking this was ridiculously low, I sought out to try to find a better way, eventually adopting a diet where I ate only every other day. As I lost weight, I became fascinated with the value of human intelligence and willpower in propelling you to achieve physical goals. I begin to test myself, first in running, then in triathlons, as I chronicle how I turned myself from a 350-pound couch potato into a competitor at the national tri champs. The book is- in my opinion- aimed at telling a story, being helpful/inspirational to those who struggle with their weight, and being funny (I have a solid repertoire of new-triathlete stories:).
I’m not trying to use this forum to promote myself, so I won’t mention the title. However, this is my first book. I enjoyed doing it, and would like to be successful enough at it that I can leave my “day job.” Thus, I want to promote it as best I can. Since there seem to be very few non-training triathlon books, I thought the forum might be interested in helping me. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might go about doing this?
Thanks!
I think you’ve done the right thing in order to promote your book. You
just mentioned it and some guys here are good in using google
