Anyone Here Ever Written a Book on Railroading?

I wrote a western novel on building the D&RGW narrow gauge south to Pueblo and

then west from there...collected a lot of rejection slips...never published!

With the advent of Kindle and Createspace, maybe some of you guys should publish them yourselves.  It would be interesting to read them.

Might I suggest trying to publish through the D&RGW historical society?  They might be a good place to start.

A couple of ideas if you aren't a professional writer...

• Find someone to critique your work.  There are a lot of forums dedicated to helping aspiring writers.  It may be something about how you write that is standing in the way.
• Keep at it and revise, revise, revise.  A friend from one of my contracts wanted to become a writer and it took an amazing amount of hard work.  He finally did it though.

Good luck...

Eric:  It is not historically accurate, is a novel, and is an ADULT novel, so

they would not be interested.  It was a fictional western novel with railroad building as its theme. It was critiqued by an English teacher in a private school whose students win scholarships and go off to Harvard, the Air Force Academy,  and other name schools.   She had few comments, mostly minor  punctuation, except that she wouldn't make it required reading for her student age group.

My other novel manuscript, also not to teach first grade reading with, dealt with teenagers going to college...both efforts were wild figments of my imagination, but some people who have no imaginations, think you lived everything you write.  (obviously I was not there with General Palmer building the D&RG) More people did read the "college" effort,  but publishers were unimpressed.

We, of course, who are in model trains, have tremendous imaginations...look as some

of the models on here, the layouts built, etc.,and we all understand creation of something from nothing.  Heck, some of us are trying to recreate our childhood, or

what we think it should have been.