On 14 Jul 98, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> Sounds like a lot of typing and thinking to me. ;-)
LOL... yeah it is. I've written various technical books and lengthy user manuals
over the years, and I'm not sure that I'd do it again unless there was some really
compelling reason. Such as a large advance from my publisher <g>
On the other hand, having a Web-related book published can be an excellent
promotional tool, as I guess is obvious. A friend of mine, owner of a large ad/Web
agency in Toronto, wrote a "guide to good stuff on the Internet" sort of thing a
couple of years ago, and he figures it was well worth the several months of late
nights. It establishes him as "a bona fide expert", and generates a lot of queries
from potential clients who've read or seen his book.
I dunno... I've had various people push me to write a Web-design book over the
past three years, but I don't think I will; the market already seems so saturated.
And I just have to read any two paragraphs by Laura Lemay to realize, "Sigh, I
couldn't write anything that good."
(Though such false modesty doesn't seem to inhibit other authors -- lordy there's a
lot of bumpf on the bookshelves, written by purported "experts". I assume that the
market is maturing by now, but a couple of years ago any idiot with a copy of
Notepad and the ability to roughly follow the HTML 2.0 specs was being offered
money to pen books, or so it seemed.)
Anyway Ronnie -- *I'd* buy your book :)
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