If you're a 6-foot-7 gay Italian Republican sushi-loving fossil hunter who just moved to Palm Harbor - and really, who isn't? - Eric Sturm has written your guide to life.

"I tried to be inclusive," said Sturm, a longtime collector of contacts for local clubs and organizations. "What I wanted was the most comprehensive resource available."

The result is Access Tampa Bay ($17.99), Sturm's book filled with Web sites, phone numbers and descriptions of nearly 700 local clubs, organizations, charities, art galleries and local landmarks.

For, say, the giant Republican sushi fan described above, the book includes organizations like Tall N' Terrific, the Log Cabin Republicans of Tampa Bay, the Italian Club, the Tampa Bay Sushi Society, the Tampa Bay Fossil Club and the Palm Harbor New Comers Club.

Sturm, who compiles an extensive weekly newsletter of events in the Tampa Bay area, spent about three and a half months organizing his contacts into one book.

"I basically could not manage my bookmarks on Internet Explorer anymore," said Sturm, 34, who lives in South Tampa. While transferring them to an Excel file, he realized he had at least 500 local Web sites and contacts at the ready. The more contacts he found, the more he thought about sharing them.

At nearly 200 pages, the self-published Access Tampa Bay lists prominent organizations like the Tiger Bay Club and Inter-Krewe Council as well as niche societies for fans of kickball, science fiction, snow skiing, Jimmy Buffett, belly dancing and ultimate Frisbee.

And that's just a start, Sturm says. Self-publishing allows him to update the book several times a year, meaning there's plenty of room to add any clubs he left out.

"If I can pull nearly 700, you've got to assume there's got to be another 300 or 400 that I missed," he said. "So for all the New Yorkers who move down here and complain there's nothing to do, just put this underneath their nose and tell them to go find something."