From: Louis Bignami Subject: FILL: BIO Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:02:43 -0700 After writing full-time since 1969 I've bagged 35 books -- this year's = are CALIFORNIA -- 88 Vacations ... and THE WIT AND WISDOM OF FISHING, = and I've done 13 cookbooks and written about a number of topics in the = outdoor and travel field. I've ben an editor/columnist for over 40 = magazines and newspapers and produced 10,000 plus articles and columns, = a screenplay, musical, various TV treatments and other oddments. =20 I now run an award-winning Internet site that, among other things, = includes the 2,000,000 words of Fine Food and Travel and Fine Fishing. = We publish professionals, and a few gifted hobby writers and our 60+ = editors write in seven languages and have written a total of 600+ books. = I've taught writing for Writer's Digest Schools and at various = universities and colleges in California and our relatively new home here = in Moscow, Idaho. I can help a few writers who show promise, accept abusive editing, and = want to sell what they write. But I require either traded time -- = editing, posting HTML, lawn mowing, car repairs, shipped in lobsters or = whatever -- or a small amount of cash so my wife, who is also a member = of the International, Food, Wine and Travel Writers, won't complain too = loudly about time taken from "more profitable projects." Details on = request on this. What I can't to is wade through pages of turgid prose, free verse, novel = fragments or anything "rough." Obviously I'm a demented old man from Idaho. Louis Bignami, CEO Big-Ray Publications, Inc. bignami@finefishing.com www.finefishing.com & www.finetravel.com Fine Food and Travel & Fine Fishing