Anyone write an aviation book?

[IslandDriver]

Anyone on here ever write and publish an aviation book.

Not a text book but one about your journey to the majors?

Any fears of telling "Too Much"

I have written a lot of stories and was thinking of publishing it.....good or bad idea?

Just wondering>

 

[Kharma Police]

Just a coloring book.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

The Genny has 18k posts, they are "published" on the interwebs thingy, but they made my eyes burn the first time I read them, once was more than enough.

 

[Bake]

well, this first thing you should do is change that avatar. Otherwise you are going to be called names and ridiculed and that won't help sales. JMO. However, General Lee and Kharma will buy one.

 

[IslandDriver]

I do need to change the Avitar! It was from when I was in a hiring pool 6 years ago .

 

[The Drizzle]

Memories and Tales of My Days on the Guard Police

by A. Delta Pighlet

 

[cl65capt]

I wrote a book once......Everybody Poops.

 

[FlyinGuy]

What about my poopscipades at 40,000 feet.

 

[CRJ puppy]

What about my poopscipades at 40,000 feet.

"Yellow River"
By I. P. Freely (Pen name)

 

[Pasturepilot]

If you're going to write a book, start by finishing your questions with a question mark instead of a period. Nothing personal, it just sets a bad tone for the idea of you writing an entire book when your first sentence is structurally flawed.

I've got a lot of stories from general aviation up to the airline world, and they're all written down. I used to write for a living, but not aviation writing. About the only thing keeping them from being a book is my lack of motivation to shop them to an editor/agent or self-publish. Maybe one day.

 

[HAL]

I have my first novel at the publisher, being edited. It's an alien invasion technothriller from the viewpoint of an airline pilot. It should be out around Christmas. And yes, I did have to run the manuscript past our corporate communications department because the airline in the book had some 'similarities' to HA. They said it was fine, and didn't request any changes.

In connection to the spirit of your question, I am working on a book about the job. I think it will end up as sort of a memoir, but focuses on the beauty of what we see from the cockpit. Hopefully if the novel does well, the publisher that accepted that book will take the memoir too.

As for writing ability, the more you write, the better you get - as long as you are willing to look at it critically, and make sometimes drastic changes to the prose. I've gone back and looked at some of my earlier work - that I thought was well done - and cringed at how easily I slaughtered the English language. Keep writing. The best book in the world isn't worth a penny if it exists only in your head.

HAL

 

[Pasturepilot]

As for writing ability, the more you write, the better you get - as long as you are willing to look at it critically, and make sometimes drastic changes to the prose. I've gone back and looked at some of my earlier work - that I thought was well done - and cringed at how easily I slaughtered the English language. Keep writing. The best book in the world isn't worth a penny if it exists only in your head.

HAL

You hit the nail on the head. I started writing out some of the stories when I was little more than a kid, and when I go back to read through them, I'm horrified at the writing, but I'm forever grateful that I captured enough details to make it worth revising and polishing.

IslandDriver, have you considered publishing a blog with some of the stories? That's how a lot of writers are getting their start these days.

 

[Dan Roman]

Thanks to the magic of kindle and amazon, there are a lot of "airline pilot genre" books out there. I enjoy them. A recent good one was Dangerous Lessons and Guardian Angels by P J Spivak. Not that professionally written, but a good story about a career in the non skeds. On the other end of the spectrum was The Life of Captain Reilly. Gawd, it was awful and centered around flying for an European LCC. Thought I would like it, but I couldn't finish it.
Some out there from some Aussie pilots that are interesting, kind of cool to read about their flying.

Looking forward to your book HAL!

 

[Flyby1206]

Memories and Tales of My Days on the Guard Police

by A. Delta Pighlet

That's pretty damn funny

 

[brokedash]

I say go for it. There have been many popular books by aviators on the subject of their "journey". Just make sure names and locations are changed to avoid un-wanted outlash if said tales could embarrass a current employer.