Hello all,
I haven't taken the time to look through all of the posts regarding your
cook book. Perhaps you may know about this site www.Blurb.com they
specialize (for a fee) publication of books. You might check it out, you can
get some ideas at least.
Waiting to find and then waiting on one may take a lot of time. I am not a
user of the product. Just information for the list.
Happy meals to you
Martin
>
> For sure if you can show a publisher's contract or a published book. But
> without those it may be impossible initially. You may have invest in the
> costs for the years it takes and then try to claim that as a write off
> once there's income from the book coming in.
>
> It would be more logical to me if the travels included destinations
> pictures (with airstream) in the book and maybe recipes created to mimic
> famous restaurants that you traveled to and ate regularly to sample the
> fare mimicked.
>
> Once the first book is published and marketed, then convincing the IRS
> should be a whole lot easier. But they tend to be hard on projects that
> look like a hobby being costed as business. Like farming on a small
> scale. They are more tolerant once the income exceeds the costs. Even of
> the years when the income doesn't meet the costs.