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Stories](#personal-experiences-post-mortems-and-campfire-stories)\n\n## Must Reads\n\n- [Scott Meyers' Advice to Prospective Book Authors](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html)\n- [Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile?](http://www.fasterj.com/articles/bookwriting.shtml)\n\n## Book Proposals\n\n- [The Proposal (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)](http://web.archive.org/web/20130809065323/http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch02.html)\n- [Scott Meyers' Advice on Preparing a Book Proposal](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html#bookProposal)\n- [Write for Us (Pearson Education)](http://www.informit.com/about/write_for_us.aspx)\n- [Drafting a Proposal (Que Publishing)](http://www.quepublishing.com/promotions/write-for-us-drafting-a-proposal-137677)\n- [Anatomy of a TOC (Que Publishing)](http://www.quepublishing.com/promotions/write-for-us-anatomy-of-a-toc-137678)\n- [Proposal Guidelines (The Pragmatic Programmers)](https://pragprog.com/write-for-us/proposal-guidelines)\n\n## Contracts\n\n- [Book Contract: What’s Negotiable and What’s Not](http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/book-contract-whats-negotiable-and-whats-not)\n- [Scott Meyers' Advice on Contracts](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html#contracts)\n- [The Contract (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)](http://web.archive.org/web/20130704110948/http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch03.html)\n- [Apress Standard Contract](https://web.archive.org/web/20161010102603/http://www.apress.com/files/Apress_Contract.pdf)\n- [No Starch Press Standard Contract](https://www.nostarch.com/download/nspagreement.pdf)\n\n## Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff\n\n- [Scott Meyers on Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html#moneyStuff)\n- [Royalties and Advances (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)](http://web.archive.org/web/20130704110948/http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch03.html#royadv)\n- [Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile?](http://www.fasterj.com/articles/bookwriting.shtml) - The benefits for writing a technical book, and the basics of how book advances work.\n- [How Book Advances Work – A Simple Explanation for Writers](http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/how-book-advances-work-a-simple-explanation-for-writers)\n- [Typical O'Reilly Advance Structure](http://web.archive.org/web/20130704110948/http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch03.html#advance)\n\n## Editors\n\n- [Scott Meyers on the Importance of a Good Editor](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html#publishersAndEditors)\n- [The Editing Process and Editor Types (Que Publishing)](http://www.quepublishing.com/promotions/write-for-us-the-editing-process-137679)\n- [Writing and Editing (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)](http://web.archive.org/web/20130710213743/http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch04.html)\n\n## Publishers\n\n- [Scott Meyers' Advice on Finding a Publisher](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html#findingAPublisher)\n\n## Marketing\n\n- [Marketing Your Book (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)](http://web.archive.org/web/20130711002825/http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch06.html)\n\n## Misc.\n\n- [Scott Meyers on Advance Sales, and How They Are Impacted by The Delivery Schedule](http://www.aristeia.com/authorAdvice.html#schedule)\n- [Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118554) - A discussion on Hacker News where many authors discuss their experience.\n\n## List of Publishers\n\n- [O’Reilly](http://www.oreilly.com/work-with-us.html)\n- [Apress](http://www.apress.com/write-for-us/)\n- [The Pragmatic Programmers](https://write-with-us.pragprog.com/)\n- [Packt Publishing](http://authors.packtpub.com/)\n- [Pearson (parent company for Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams, and more)](http://www.informit.com/about/write_for_us.aspx)\n- [Que Publishing](http://www.quepublishing.com/about/write_for_us.aspx)\n- [Manning Publications](https://www.manning.com/write-for-us)\n- [Wrox](http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-105073.html)\n- [No Starch Press](https://www.nostarch.com/writeforus.htm)\n\n## Self Publishing\n\n- [Self vs Professional Publishing](https://medium.com/@davetron5000/self-vs-professional-publishing-c3397bd7defd#.lrfhasuo5) - The pros and cons of each, plus a look at many of the options available for self publishing.\n\n## Writing Workflows and Tooling\n\n- [Living the Future of Technical Writing](https://medium.com/@chacon/living-the-future-of-technical-writing-2f368bd0a272#.8x6g1wxjb) - Scott Chacon shares his workflow and tools for writing \"Pro Git\" in Asciidoc.\n\n## Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories\n\n- [Writing a Programming Book: FAQs after Writing Learning React Native](https://medium.com/@brindelle/writing-a-programming-book-faqs-after-writing-learning-react-native-8a5ea8ce04e#.e85mhxolh)\n- [Do Not Buy This Book](http://blog.codinghorror.com/do-not-buy-this-book/) - Jeff Atwood's warning to potential writers.\n- [Writing a Technical Book: Motivation, Publishing and how to stay focused without ruining your Life](http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/writingbook/writingtechbook.htm) - Adam Tornhill shares experience gained writing his three books (two of them self published).\n- [Writing a Technical Book](http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/technical-writing.shtml) - Michael Foord shares his experience publishing with Apress.\n- [Tips for Writing a Programming 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