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Fun fact: the author can ask for a particular animal, but it’s not guaranteed. When we were working on our Ember.ha book we–naturallly–asked if we could get a h
by thomasqbrady 5y ago
Fun fact: the author can ask for a particular animal, but it’s not guaranteed. When we were working on our Ember.ha book we–naturallly–asked if we could get a hamster on the cover. They weren’t sure they’d be able to influence the art chosen, but in the end they can as close as they could–a dormouse: https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=Ember&x-sort=animal https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp?x-search=Ember&x-sort=an...
- andylynch 5y agoI’d noticed this owing to Hadley Wickham’s R books - all fittingly feature birds native to New Zealand.
- dehrmann 5y agoI'm imagining a sitcom scene where authors get into a fight over who got the best animal.
- daveslash 5y ago.... If George Costanza wrote an O'Reilly book, where he requests a specific animal for some sitcom reason, but instead his book gets something silly or embarrassing.
- xrd 5y agoMy editor got really mad when I tried to switch my animal so I got stuck with a beagle, my least favorite dog.
- ahmed_ds 5y agoThey have a "BeagleBone Cookbook" that features a... Foxhound. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beaglebone-cookbook/9781491915660/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beaglebone-cookbook/978...