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Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2019

Misc.

• Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book? - A discussion on Hacker News where many authors discuss their experience.

Oct 30 - Nov 05, 2017

Contracts

• Apress Standard Contract

May 16 - May 22, 2016

Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories

• Tips for Writing a Programming Book

May 02 - May 08, 2016

Self Publishing

• Self vs Professional Publishing - The pros and cons of each, plus a look at many of the options available for self publishing.

Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories

• Writing a Technical Book - Michael Foord shares his experience publishing with Apress.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2016

Writing Workflows and Tooling

• Living the Future of Technical Writing - Scott Chacon shares his workflow and tools for writing "Pro Git" in Asciidoc.

Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories

• Writing a Programming Book: FAQs after Writing Learning React Native

• Do Not Buy This Book - Jeff Atwood's warning to potential writers.

• Writing a Technical Book: Motivation, Publishing and how to stay focused without ruining your Life - Adam Tornhill shares experience gained writing his three books (two of them self published).

Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2016

Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff

• Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile? - The benefits for writing a technical book, and the basics of how book advances work.

• How Book Advances Work – A Simple Explanation for Writers

• Typical O'Reilly Advance Structure

Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2016

Contracts

• No Starch Press Standard Contract

List of Publishers

• No Starch Press

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2016

List of Publishers

• Manning Publications

• Wrox

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2016

Must Reads

• Scott Meyers' Advice to Prospective Book Authors

Book Proposals

• The Proposal (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

• Scott Meyers' Advice on Preparing a Book Proposal

• Write for Us (Pearson Education)

• Drafting a Proposal (Que Publishing)

• Anatomy of a TOC (Que Publishing)

• Proposal Guidelines (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Contracts

• Book Contract: What’s Negotiable and What’s Not

• Scott Meyers' Advice on Contracts

• The Contract (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff

• Scott Meyers on Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff

• Royalties and Advances (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

Editors

• Scott Meyers on the Importance of a Good Editor

• The Editing Process and Editor Types (Que Publishing)

• Writing and Editing (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

Publishers

• Scott Meyers' Advice on Finding a Publisher

Marketing

• Marketing Your Book (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

Misc.

• Scott Meyers on Advance Sales, and How They Are Impacted by The Delivery Schedule

List of Publishers

• O’Reilly

• Apress

• The Pragmatic Programmers

• Packt Publishing

• Pearson (parent company for Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams, and more)

• Que Publishing