Happy new year everybody!
As some of you already know, a second edition of the "Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler´s London" is being written, and the thing developed in a direction that will make it a "different book".
First, the title will be different as it has some new chapters that includes new cities like Leeds, New York, Pennan and some others already in the first book but that will be expanded, so the title had no longer any sense.
The main thing of the book was to be a guide of places, and this "new book" will follow that but it will be more biographically oriented, the chapters will be expanded, all of them, and obviously rewritten in this new orientation. It will include the maps as well with directions to visit the places, but the text will be oriented in a more friendly style to read it.
It will also includes many pictures, many of them new ones that were not in the first one, and a very big percentage are pictures from AMIT friends.
Many AMITers had contributed (and will contribute) to the new chapters and to expand the already existing ones, and what´s more important, the book is being written not only by me, but also by DMG, he wrote some of the chapters, I did some of the others, and we read each other chapters to add/change/improve so it´s being a very colaborative thing, so when it´s done we´ll probably use a nick name to include both as writters. The book wasn´t entirely mine as it had contributions of many people, but now it´s only mine in a percentage, so changing the credits was needed
Some of the chapters needed assistance from inhabitants of the places mentioned, in the text and in the pictures, and I´m proud to thank them, but I won´t mention his names yet, I will wait when the book is done, it will take probably most of 2017 and I don´t think that it would be ready until 2018, and if MK release new songs that should be included, it could make it even longer... When it´s done, we will let you know
This means that the "Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler´s London" book will be out of print as it is before january ends. Maybe I will upload later a reduced version of it just with the London chapters as a guide for London spots related to DS and MK, , but the book as it is today is going out of print.
If you don't have it yet and you want to have it, follow this link
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Jbaent, if you rather wait for the "new book", it will contain the same information but very expanded and I hope that better written
with a lot of more pictures. If you already had the book, you will like the new one more, we hope so!
If when reading the book you thought that something was missing or that could be improved in any way, please let us know in this thread.
