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Ep.52 w/ Charlie Barrett “The Reluctant Guide”
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:43:03
Publish Date: 2016-02-17 15:18:05
Description:

On everything he had to learn to publish his Tuolumne and Mammoth bouldering guides, his reluctance to ever work on a guide again, and why the Bishop guide wouldn’t leave him alone…

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Show Notes for episode with Charlie Barrett:

  • Why he decided to take on his first guide book, Mammoth Bouldering Guidebook
  • What he had to learn to make it happen
  • His early roots in boulder area development
  • Finishing the Mammoth guide and happy to be done with writing guidebooks
  • The phone call that led to Charlie inevitably writing the Tuolumne guide
  • What information to include in a guide
  • Why write a new Bishop guide? Isn’t the original good enough?
  • How Charlie ended up getting Wills’ blessing to re-write the book, and why Wolverine wouldn’t give him the rights to just update the original Bishop Guide
  • Changes that will be made to the new guide
  • Self-publishing vs. using a publisher
  • Learning to publish, sell, distribute, market, etc
  • The future of guidebooks!!!

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