Are You An Author?

I am wondering how many of you have written an article or two for your local philatelic club or a wider audience. If you have, would you mind sharing the titles/headlines? It be nice to hear how many write blogs, too.

Here.....

https://goscf.com/t/6773&SearchTerms=Cold,Sweat

The first story on page one has appeared in a couple of publications including the UK's NPS Journal, Stamp Lover.

Just a spot of fun......it's what it's all about.
Isn't it ?

London, wonderful!

I've written a couple articles, in the past year, for Portu-Info, the quarterly journal for the International Society for Portuguese Philately. Do not have scan capability at this time.

Steve, does the Society focus solely on Portuguese issues? Is the journal an English publication?

I have had several articles printed in the SIP Journal, one in the APS Journal. I wrote a blog on Israeli stamps for almost 5 years, (http://israelstamps.blogspot.com) but haven't done anything with it in almost 3 years. Part of it is the editor at SIP wasn't interested in articles on modern stamps, so I stopped submitting articles. Maybe one of these days I will actually get back to it.

I'm not an author. I've only really been seriously collecting as an adult for about 3 years now, so I'm not really qualified to write much other than my own opinions on various topics.

I'd like to point out that for those inclined to write, there is a Wikipedia Philately Project that needs articles to be written:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip...ct_Philately

I was browsing stamp related articles on Wiki the other night and I was pretty impressed with how many good articles there are these days, but of course there's a need for more. It's a good place to put general articles as it's the first place many people go when they want to learn about something. I don't feel qualified to write much other than perhabs a stub article, so I haven't written anything there myself. I sure appreciate those that do, however.

Don't consider myself as an author, but I still do quite a lot of writing. .

Besides my stamp blog (450+ entries and counting) I've written random articles for British Philatelic Bulletin and Stamp Magazine, and lately have been working a monthly column at Stamp & Coin Mart. In addition I've done quite many articles in local (Finnish) websites & magazines (earliest dating back to mid 1990s). Writing for myself/blog is for personal fun of it; writing for others is serious work (with deadlines etc. interaction). Most of the time I've simply agreed to get the editors/publishers out of my neck, LOL.

@TheArtfulHinger...



My personal experience with Wikipedia is that it's a terrible platform to write; especially if you are nothing but an casual and creative hobbyist writer with no author training (like me).

If you include some tidbit in Wikipedia, then you'll also have to come up with creditable (printed etc. otherwise) references about it unless you want it removed. The fact of 'owning an item' or doing 'original research' about is not enough for Wikipedia. So for example if I want to include information about a new previously unknown perforation variant, I'd have to first get the story published in something like Gibbons Monthly or Linns; and then reference the article. On the other hand if I publish the story on my blog or here, it would be a no-go (as personal blogs or discussion boards/forums don't have the creditability required by Wikipedia).

And there are copyright issues with images. Images of classic stamps are ok most of the time. But try adding anything more modern, and you're usually in deep waters.

And then there's the editorial talks / discussions.

And...

In a way it's sad how 'complicated' it is to add even random facts (not to mention to write an entire article) to Wikipedia, but on the other hand it makes Wikipedia the 'encyclopedia' instead of a collection of 'personal opinions and thoughts'.

-k-

I've dabbled:



The full issue of First Days containing this article is here:

http://www.afdcs.org/resources/FD_422_web.pdf

Basil (aka blcjr)

And that's a major reason why I don't and likely won't write articles for them, even for those limited circumstances where I might be able to. I really don't have the time nor inclination to do all the cross-referencing necessary. I understand completely why Wiki has that policy, but it does make it difficult for articles related to philately due to the reasons you already mentioned.

I've written extensively for the Ohio Postal History Society over the last 20 years, including serving as editor from 2000-2010 or so. I've also been published in the Chronicle ("1848 Folded letter with ties to Early American History", co-authored with Alex Haimann) and the U.S. Specialist (the article was about the early redemption fee for postal savings certificates), and probably a few other publications.

I've had articles published in Linn's Stamp New, The American Philatelist, The Torch Bearer, First Days, Stamp Insider, Stamp Collector, Philatelie Quebec, Excelsior! and numerous other society journals. I have a short piece in the next LaPosta. I've also been editor of The Bulletin of the Empire State Postal History Society and currently am the editor of the Vermont Philatelist, a 28 page quarterly booklet.

This is turning into an impressive list!

Many articles, essays and reports. RPSC, BNAPS, ASPPP, Canadian Stamp News.

I'm going to write an article for AFDCS on the new Bergman stamp.

KGB asked: does the journal (Portu-Info) focus solely on Portuguese issues? Is the journal an English publication?

Answer to #1 is yes. There may be an occasional article covering a British mail steamship line, for example. But there is always some sort of Portuguese connection. Answer to #2...... the ISPP is based in the USA and the journal is written in English. The Society is fortunate to have members who are bilingual and occasionally we do get translations of articles from the Portuguese. There also is a sister society in the UK for Portuguese philately.