I was trying to make sure you went into writing with open eyes. I give
everyone who asks me about writing the same scare talk, if you still
want to write the book when I'm done, you're doing it for the right
reasons :)
--- Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can certainly echo the
I've been saying all along that writing technical books is NOT the way
to early retirement :)
I've done both authorship and technical editing. Both have advantages,
both were done for several reasons, none of which included riches. In
the case of the authorship, I wanted to help spread knowledge
Good Article Dennis, and I am living proof that you CAN get a technical book
contract even in a soft market.
Rachel is right... isn't easy (I knew you were, Rachel, but I am doing it
anyway... it is still THE book that I wish I had in my hands a year ago).
I'm hoping to nearly pay off my trip to
And it was a good book you wrote (Perl for Oracle DBA).
Any extensions/2nd editions? What about C# for oracle DBA?
-Original Message-
From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Ideas
I know I've really enjoyed the technical reviews that I've done. I have
done about a half dozen or so and I can say that I have learned things
from every one. I would like to write books, but the muse has not given
me a technical topic yet, so I try to stay involved in tech reviews when
I get
can't recall at the moment...
Jared
Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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care to share that method?? :)
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Andert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:55 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Ideas for future authors
I know I've really enjoyed
Chris,
Sure, come to my session (#534) at IOUG grin.
But if you can't make it, O'Reilly published the book I reviewed and
the article I wrote about that at
http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oraclesqlload_0401.html . Of course,
my e-mail address there doesn't work, and I don't know if they're
