I've got a really good idea for a book

[Droopy]

No, I'm not looking for a writer, unless you happen to have schizoaffective disorder. :)

I've got a mental illness called schizoaffective disorder. Not long after I was diagnosed as having the illness I went looking for books about it. I couldn't find anything that was current and still in print. Those afflicted with the illness have the symptoms of bipolar disorder as well as some symptoms of schizophrenia. I've read books about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and they've been helpful to a certain degree, but there are things about schizoaffective disorder that make it a unique illness that aren't covered in those books. I think that's a shame considering 1 in 200 people have schizoaffective disorder. It's still not as common as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but not at all rare.

So that got me thinking that there should be a book out there about schizoaffective disorder and I tried to write one. I soon found that I wasn't up to the task, so I had a different idea: Create a book about schizoaffective disorder that was written by those who have the illness. I would solicit essays from them and put them all together to make what I think would be a useful and unique book.

But I ran into a brick wall with that when I found that soliciting essays and getting people to write was a lot harder that I had anticipated. I did manage to get 4 essays with the authors' permission to use them as I please. And that's where I'm at right now.

How would you go about soliciting more essays? If you did manage to get enough essays together for a book, how would you put it together?