"Can I sucker gardeners into buying my book?"

No. Not if you treat them disrespectfully by saying you're going to sucker them.

Maybe change your selling point to one that's more attuned to offering a reference product to assist those folks who are interested in bristlecone pines.

I agree with Trudi. And will add that I have gone, like so many others, to see these in a national park and I would be interested in their garden use and such info, even if they don't grow here. Didn't even know they were available.

I sense some are not particularly happy with the wording of the "can I sucker gardeners into buying my book" but I also see the underlying point which is: how can I increase the marketing on my book to a greater audience? By all means, do offer info on cultivars and garden use. Show pictures of them in their natural state, placement in individual gardens, uses such as bonsai, lots of photos and list sources. Gardeners are always interested in knowing obscure facts such as which are our oldest living plants? How far out of their natural range can they be successfully grown? Are they propagated from seed or "suckers?"

Was not 'Can I sucker gardeners...' a tongue in cheek title to grab the interest of readers here?

My opinion from the information given is that this is a book with a narrow focus and a limited audience, perhaps students and researchers? I might read a book of this nature at a library, but as a general rule I wouldn't buy a book that has no impact on where I garden.

I wish you well.

Nell

Lighten up, Trudi -- don't writers have license to play with words?
Good suggestions, Eddie. Thanks.

Sure they do. However, consumers hate getting suckered--and that WAS your opening statement. You didn't say you were going to offer, but sucker, and that's VERY different from selling.

You can lighten up a bit too ;-)

Haven't heard from INKognito in a while but I see others are stepping up to the plate. By now we should all be so lightened up that we're just floating around like vapor on a pond. Speaking of vapor-
There is a special name for the mist in pine barrens. Can anyone think of what it is?

I wish could light & up right now ;-o

Curiosity got the better of me, Eddie. I HAD to search for '"Pine Barrens" +mists' and found few forestry sites. The searches ran to online novels and poetry set in the New Jersey woods and spooky sites with black backgrounds, horror movie themes and other depressing notions, principally the 'New Jersey Devil.'

I came up with three choices: fog bank, ground fog and acid rain. I hope you will share a more descriptive phrase, or will I have to read John McPhee?

Nell

PS I did find a nice Acrobat file with an extensive list of plants threatened in Georgia, so all was not in vain.

I found a story about the NJ Devil and while reading it, I began to wonder if this tale may have influenced the story writers of The Blair Witch.

Here is a link that might be useful: New Jersey Devil

I'll buy the book with or without the chapter but I'd like to have the chapter as well .. I have read your work before and those books stay on my prefered book shelf !!

Good Day ...

Pinetree great catch phrase.

If it s botanical book you may just want to include a appendix witha a list of cultivars.

Most conifer nuts will by the book regardless.

Hi Ron,
Have you finished the book?, any latest info appreciated.

I expect it to be out in Fall 2007, by Mountain Press in Missoula. Sorry I didn't see your post earlier
Hasaki.

Trudi- needs to get some (way too up tight). Resin I'll buy it. Your knowledge has help my garden...more than you know.

Whoa!
I haven't been to the GW forums for months on end...
just happened in tonight to see what's new and saw in the index the 'writers'..
this is the very first thread I happen upon and me thinks me better be cautious around you folks here...
no one seems to be afraid to speak their 'words'.....lol

I'll lurk before I ask too many questions..gotta get me feet wet before I get dunked in this pool.