Repair Book Club

Do you have a once-favorite dress, now tainted with an unsightly red wine stain? Is your comfortable couch now covered in doggy paw prints that no amount of upholstery cleaner seems able to remove? Coming soon is a book that will show you how to repair clothing, carpets, and other fabrics that have become stained. The Good Housekeeping Stain Rescue!: The A-Z Guide to Removing Smudges, Spots, and Spills is a comprehensive and practical book that will save the reader time, aggravation, and money.

A must for anyone with small children, this handy book teaches the tips you need to know to recover quickly from disasters like crayon smears, ketchup spills, greasy stains, unidentified mystery stains and more. The book offers how-to information on how to remove virtually any stain you might reasonably expect to encounter in the home.

Readers will broaden their knowledge of stain removal basics, and glean expert tips to salvage even the most delicate fabrics and clean up the most terribly stained fabrics.

We all know that seconds count when it comes to stain removal, and this book's organizational scheme which groups together types of stains makes it easy and convenient to find what you need to know in a flash.

Compiled by the editors and experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute, the book is published by Hearst and will be released this April 3^rd, 2012 in a 288-page spiral-bound format. If you're looking for a way to save money by repairing stained clothing, upholstery, and carpet instead of having to replace your damaged items anytime there's an unfortunate spill, Good Housekeeping Stain Rescue! Is the book to get.:

Recently released from the University of Oklahoma Press, The Acoustic Guitar, Volume II, is one of the most useful and complete guitar repair books ever written. Written by Don E. Teeter, the book provides the sequel to the original The Acoustic Guitar, Teeter's book which provided general instructions on guitar assembly and repair. This latest release includes much of the information that was covered in the first volume, but it goes several steps beyond with some new additions and updates.

The book is packed with information guitar enthusiasts and musical instrument repair professionals and hobbyists will find both helpful and interesting. Procedures for taking guitars apart without damaging them and instructions for putting guitars back together again are described in a detailed, step-by-step format. Inlay work, refinishing techniques, how to keep your guitar in good working order, and how to use custom design tools are also covered, and both major and minor repair jobs are described. From repairing cracks to refinishing damaged surfaces, from repairing a broken guitar neck to adjusting the tension rod, pretty much anything you would need to know to give guitar repair a go is included in this concise yet information-rich 216-page volume.

Photographs and line drawings make the instructions easy to follow, and Teeter's emphasis on time-saving techniques and shortcuts without compromising quality make the book very practical and useful.

Intended as a supplement to Teeter's earlier work on acoustic guitar repair, The Acoustic Guitar, Volume II fills in the gaps left by the original title and provides a more updated and current look at guitar repair that takes into account today's modernized and improved tools and techniques.

Whether you own a guitar in desperate need of repair, or you own a guitar that you wish to keep in good repair, The Acoustic Guitar, Volume II is the book to get.

Are you both a wood smitha nd a wordsmith? Are you great at fixing things and good at expressing things? If so, consider becoming a repair book author. Repair books offer specialized information to mass market, trade, and niche audiences. They are often presented in a step-by-step or how-to format. Repair books are in constant demand, and you could be the next person to write one that really makes a splash. Here's what you need to know to start exploring the possibilities.

Repair book publishers tend to pick up books that cover unusual aspects of popular repair subjects, and books that explore unique niche repair subjects that would appeal to identifiable, previously untapped or under-tapped markets. For instance, is there a cuckoo clock-makers guild, and not a single book on the art of cuckoo clock-making written for beginners? Do you have specialized knowledge to share, knowledge others would like to hear and could likely benefit from? Let this line of thinking inspire you to come up with some book concepts.

To be a successful repair book author, you'll need to be an expert on the topic you're writing about. Make sure you have some experience or credential under your belt before you approach publishers with your book ideas.

You'll also need to keep current on what's going on in your field of expertise. Be aware of trends, and look for gaps that aren't being filled by other repair books. Get to know your audience—the people who you hope will buy your book. What does this audience want and need? What are their concerns? Does this line of thinking give you any more book ideas?

You'll also want to specialize. Find something useful, fresh, and specific to offer, be it a new way to approach antique furniture refurbishment, or the first complete guide to RC airplane repair.

Once you've formulated a general idea of the type of repair book you might want to write, take a look at the books currently available and start researching publishers. Choose a few publishers that you feel have the best chance of being interested in your work. Refine your idea and put together your book proposal, precisely following each publisher's guidelines and instructions.

Writing repair books could be a fun and rewarding way to supplement your income. Why not give it a shot?

If you collect old books, sooner or later you'll need to do some repair and restoration on your precious and ancient tomes. Knowing how to restore old books can help protect the value of your collection. Matching modern techniques to old book-making methods can be challenging, and if you want your book repair job to look authentic and seamless, you'll need to go about it the old fashioned way. Recently released is a reprint of a very old title on book repair and restoration that will teach you everything you need to know to get your antique books back into shape.

Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles, Including Some Translated Selections From Essai Sur L'art de ... et Les Livres, par A. Bonnardot, Paris, 1858 was resurrected to see the light of day once more by General Books LLC this past January, 2012. Written by Mitchell Starrett Buck, the book covers all the basics of book restoration, from repairing to cleaning. How to remove grease spots on covers, special considerations for leather-bound books, and freshening a morocco binding are among the topics described.

The book is old, the reprint of an original from 1858, and it shows in the cumbersome and old-fashioned language. If you can get through all that, however, this book is really a great reference to repairing and restoring very old books.

Whether you collect old books of all sorts, or repair books from all eras, Book Repair and Restoration is a historic classic to add to your collection.