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Firstly congrats - as a recent HN submissions showed, half the battle is simply finishing the damn thing. A couple of questions, if you don't mind. How did yo
by joshvm 11y ago
Firstly congrats - as a recent HN submissions showed, half the battle is simply finishing the damn thing.
A couple of questions, if you don't mind.
How did you support yourself while writing the book? And if you were working another job, how did you find time?
Did you try any other marketing like giving away the first chapter or blogging/newsletters?
I've been toying with the idea of writing a book on programming AVR microcontrollers for a while, since most of the information online is horrifically fragmented. I'm tempted to go down the website route and then publish it separately as a cohesive ebook, but it looks like leanpub may be a good option if you can publish individual chapters as you write them.
- limedaring 11y ago> How did you support yourself while writing the book? And if you were working another job, how did you find time? I am lucky that I have no rent, so the income from WeddingLovely (when I was paying myself $20k/yr) as well as income from the Kickstarter (I raised $13k) helped a ton. As for time, that's one of the main reasons why it took me a year — I couldn't work on it full time. > Did you try any other marketing like giving away the first chapter or blogging/newsletters? I give away a sample to every subscriber to the email list, which includes the first four chapters, I believe. There has been mentions on podcasts and some newsletters, but nothing has matched the results from Product Hunt/Reddit yet. Still working on it.