Colin Salter - non-fiction writer
Arts and Leisure
I've had careers in the performing arts (stage design and management), popular music (musician and DJ) and crafts (furniture and ceramics), and degrees in drama and applied art. Whether it's pop history or how-to hobbies, I write with clarity, enthusiasm and personal experience.
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Pavilion Books, due January 2017 Co-author, automotive history. 29 articles, 42,000 words. Commissioning editor Frank Hopkinson.
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Instinctive Product Development, 2013 Contributing author. Biography of the Hollywood heart-throb. 7500 of 12000 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Not Now Music 2014 Author, CD booklet. Background notes and biography for 3CD rerelaease of noted jazz harmonica player. 800 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Not Now Music 2015 Author, CD booklet. Background notes and history for a 2CD compilation of ragtime piano music. 800 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Not Now Music 2014 Author, CD booklet. Background notes and history for 3CD compilation of jazz film sondtracks from the 1950s. 800 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Not Now Music, 2014 Author, CD booklet. Background notes and history for 3CD compilation of 1950s jazz and soul organ greats. 800 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Omnibus Press, 2012. Contributing author. Chapters on Early R'n'R & R'n'B, British Invasion, Stadium Rock, late 20th and early 21st century design. 18000 words, 260 captions. Commissioning editor Laura Ward, Elephant Book Company.
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One Day Music, 2014. Author, CD booklet. Background notes and history for 3CD compilation of popular songs from two world wars and both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. 800 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Green Umbrella Publishing, 2006 Author. Book to accompany a DVD in a Christmas giftpack. Descriptions of the birds featured and their roles in folklore, plus sections on habitat and a round-up of organisations and reserves. 128pp, 81 articles, 24000 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Park Lane Books, due 2014 Author. Biography of the first great American writer, with a detailed review of his major works, a discussion of his place in the 21st century and a summary of sources of further information. 12000 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
Flame Tree Publishing, 2006 Contributing author. 1960s US soul music section. 56 articles, 9750 words. Commissioning editor Micahel Heatley, Northdown Publishing.
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Compendium Publishing (unpublished), 2011 Contributing author. Biographies of singers and choreographers, and essays on trends, in a book on the genre's history from the 1930s to the present. 21 articles, 6200 words. Commissioning editor Michael Heatley, Northdown Publishing. (Compendium went out of business before the book could be published.)