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I wrote a book for O'Reilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043027.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043027.do This post is so accurate. I have
by xrd 9y ago
I wrote a book for O'Reilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043027.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043027.do
This post is so accurate. I have nothing but good things to say about the O'Reilly staff. It didn't make a dent in my finances but was a good experience to understand the challenges in writing something like that.
The most meaningful experience for me was when someone reading the early access version found me on the internet and sent excited questions to me out of the blue: https://medium.com/@xrd/sending-two-signed-copies-of-my-book-to-a-guy-i-ve-never-met-in-michigan-8832cb405dcf https://medium.com/@xrd/sending-two-signed-copies-of-my-book...
- pc86 9y agoHow would you recommend someone with a limited audience go about becoming an O'Reilly author?
- xrd 9y agoIn my case, I stumbled into it. I went to Google I/O and talked to someone who already had written several books for O'Reilly. He proposed the book to them long before I got involved. Honestly, the hacker in me thinks that finding a list of people who have already written for O'Reilly and then seeing if you can help them complete a book in progress might be a good way to get into the oreilly ecosystem. I proposed a book 16 years ago to O'Reilly and the rejected the idea. So maybe just show up multiple times and you'll get lucky? I think I did. But once I got "lucky" then I did have three years of hard work for very little money. Be prepared for that!
- pc86 9y ago> I did have three years of hard work for very little money. Be prepared for that! Oh my wife and I own a gym so I am very familiar with working a lot and getting little to no money in return haha