awesome-book-authoring

:books: A collection of awesome resources for technical book authors
https://github.com/TalAter/awesome-book-authoring

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Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories
- Writing a Technical Book - Michael Foord shares his experience publishing with Apress.
- Tips for Writing a Programming Book
- Writing a Programming Book: FAQs after Writing Learning React Native
- Do Not Buy This Book - Jeff Atwood's warning to potential writers.
- Writing a Technical Book: Motivation, Publishing and how to stay focused without ruining your Life - Adam Tornhill shares experience gained writing his three books (two of them self published).
Book Proposals
List of Publishers
Contracts
Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff
- How Book Advances Work – A Simple Explanation for Writers
- Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile? - The benefits for writing a technical book, and the basics of how book advances work.
- Typical O'Reilly Advance Structure
Editors
- The Editing Process and Editor Types (Que Publishing)
- Writing and Editing (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)
Marketing
- Marketing Your Book (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)
Misc.
- Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book? - A discussion on Hacker News where many authors discuss their experience.
- Scott Meyers on Advance Sales, and How They Are Impacted by The Delivery Schedule
Self Publishing
- Self vs Professional Publishing - The pros and cons of each, plus a look at many of the options available for self publishing.
Writing Workflows and Tooling
- Living the Future of Technical Writing - Scott Chacon shares his workflow and tools for writing "Pro Git" in Asciidoc.

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List of Publishers 9 Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories 5 Book Proposals 4 Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff 3 Contracts 3 Misc. 2 Editors 2 Writing Workflows and Tooling 1 Self Publishing 1 Marketing 1

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