Okay not strictly comedy, but with guys on this site having books published I thought I would ask the question.
The first thing I need to do is give you the background – this is not that easy for me because behind a name on a forum you can be anyone, and I also know that many people in today's society really don't like fat people but here it goes.
I'm not called big fella on this site for no reason, until very recently I weighed 43 stone ( yes, you did read that right) I am also 6 foot 6. At the start of this month I went into hospital and had a gastric bypass operation, a operation that could have easily killed me. Now my stomach is no bigger than an egg – yesterday I ate half a muller light yogurt, a banana, a small piece of smoked haddock, one new potato and a teaspoon of peas! Hopefully with the operation I will lose around 25 stone.
I am also being filmed for an hour long documentary on the discovery channel to be shown in October. The interesting side to my story is that even though I weighed such a stupid amount of weight I had no medical problems at all, blood pressure is normal etc and I ran my own business, hence didn't lie in bed all day taking benefits from the state. Until being about 21 I was very fit and played American Football to quite a high level, my GP thinks this is why I never had any problems with my health. Of course I had numerous mobility issues and people always stared whenever I went out. My family's life has really been on hold for the past three years or so.
The principle of the book is to chart my past and how I got myself into this stupid position and then my experiences of the operation and finally my recovery and getting back to fitness and a normal life. I am making good progress with the first half of the book, but of course the final section will have to be written as I lose the weight ( it should take around a year).
So the question how best to go about this book published? Do I contact publishers or agents or both. Do I do it now or when the whole book is finished?
Thanks for your help.