My publisher is looking for authors to write big data (Hadoop, etc.) books
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I can see the title of the Article already! I can't read the article clearly - it's covered in brown fingerprints... :laugh:
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I can't read the article clearly - it's covered in brown fingerprints
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I'm so dedicated to the cause that I'm off to do some preparatory research! :cool:
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Hey, guys. My editor pinged me yesterday to say he's looking for big data authors. If you're interested, go to my website's contact form[^] and ping me so that I can make an email introduction for you. If I know you, I'll share my impressions with him. If I don't, I'll be honest with him that you're a blind referral. As far as he goes, of all the editors I've worked with over the years, he's my absolute favorite. Honest, positive, constructive and a good guy. He helped me make both Tribes 2nd ed and Have Fun much better books without getting in my way or stepping on my creative toes. I would recommend him without hesitation. If you've never written a book before, be advised that you need to be prepared to do your own marketing and promotion once it hits the streets if you want more people than your family and friends to read it. Your publisher (mine and any other) will do very, very little for you in that regard. That's just the nature of the business. You can waste time and emotion ranting about how that's not fair, or you can embrace reality and operate accordingly. It is what it is. Consequently, publishers are most enthusiastic about authors who have a firm grasp of their audience and are both willing and able to get in front of them and spread the word once the book has been released - in other words, authors who are capable of effective marketing and promotion. If you're not comfortable with doing that, don't write books. It's a lot of work (takes a year or so to get it on the street) and it won't be rewarding for you if it dies a quiet death once it's available for sale. With that in mind, here are his comments to me. If you're interested in writing for Apress, I'll be happy to hook you up.
I’m now doing big data books—both specific technologies like Hadoop and as it relates to sectors like healthcare or finance—so feel free to pass my name along to any developer friend working in that area.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity
I don't want to say big data, because well, in my mind, big data is truly staggering, I don't think another book on hadoop is what the world needs. Why? 1) Everyone is doing "hadoop" 2) Hadoop is not marketed as a panacea but is being implemented as one 3) Vertical Scale has been proven to be faster when "it fits" 4) Enterprise Really needs to be spoon fed and buying 100 nodes isn't "feasible" sometimes 5) Sometimes what seems like a "big data" problem is an infrastructure problem What I think would be better is a book of case studies that came with a CD (haha, DVD's of sample data) that took a data set, real-world problems, and the tackled them using numerous methods. Did you know that it takes 2 seconds to load a 2GB file into ram on my machine?
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Hey, guys. My editor pinged me yesterday to say he's looking for big data authors. If you're interested, go to my website's contact form[^] and ping me so that I can make an email introduction for you. If I know you, I'll share my impressions with him. If I don't, I'll be honest with him that you're a blind referral. As far as he goes, of all the editors I've worked with over the years, he's my absolute favorite. Honest, positive, constructive and a good guy. He helped me make both Tribes 2nd ed and Have Fun much better books without getting in my way or stepping on my creative toes. I would recommend him without hesitation. If you've never written a book before, be advised that you need to be prepared to do your own marketing and promotion once it hits the streets if you want more people than your family and friends to read it. Your publisher (mine and any other) will do very, very little for you in that regard. That's just the nature of the business. You can waste time and emotion ranting about how that's not fair, or you can embrace reality and operate accordingly. It is what it is. Consequently, publishers are most enthusiastic about authors who have a firm grasp of their audience and are both willing and able to get in front of them and spread the word once the book has been released - in other words, authors who are capable of effective marketing and promotion. If you're not comfortable with doing that, don't write books. It's a lot of work (takes a year or so to get it on the street) and it won't be rewarding for you if it dies a quiet death once it's available for sale. With that in mind, here are his comments to me. If you're interested in writing for Apress, I'll be happy to hook you up.
I’m now doing big data books—both specific technologies like Hadoop and as it relates to sectors like healthcare or finance—so feel free to pass my name along to any developer friend working in that area.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity
Interesting one
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Hey, guys. My editor pinged me yesterday to say he's looking for big data authors. If you're interested, go to my website's contact form[^] and ping me so that I can make an email introduction for you. If I know you, I'll share my impressions with him. If I don't, I'll be honest with him that you're a blind referral. As far as he goes, of all the editors I've worked with over the years, he's my absolute favorite. Honest, positive, constructive and a good guy. He helped me make both Tribes 2nd ed and Have Fun much better books without getting in my way or stepping on my creative toes. I would recommend him without hesitation. If you've never written a book before, be advised that you need to be prepared to do your own marketing and promotion once it hits the streets if you want more people than your family and friends to read it. Your publisher (mine and any other) will do very, very little for you in that regard. That's just the nature of the business. You can waste time and emotion ranting about how that's not fair, or you can embrace reality and operate accordingly. It is what it is. Consequently, publishers are most enthusiastic about authors who have a firm grasp of their audience and are both willing and able to get in front of them and spread the word once the book has been released - in other words, authors who are capable of effective marketing and promotion. If you're not comfortable with doing that, don't write books. It's a lot of work (takes a year or so to get it on the street) and it won't be rewarding for you if it dies a quiet death once it's available for sale. With that in mind, here are his comments to me. If you're interested in writing for Apress, I'll be happy to hook you up.
I’m now doing big data books—both specific technologies like Hadoop and as it relates to sectors like healthcare or finance—so feel free to pass my name along to any developer friend working in that area.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity
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Hey, guys. My editor pinged me yesterday to say he's looking for big data authors. If you're interested, go to my website's contact form[^] and ping me so that I can make an email introduction for you. If I know you, I'll share my impressions with him. If I don't, I'll be honest with him that you're a blind referral. As far as he goes, of all the editors I've worked with over the years, he's my absolute favorite. Honest, positive, constructive and a good guy. He helped me make both Tribes 2nd ed and Have Fun much better books without getting in my way or stepping on my creative toes. I would recommend him without hesitation. If you've never written a book before, be advised that you need to be prepared to do your own marketing and promotion once it hits the streets if you want more people than your family and friends to read it. Your publisher (mine and any other) will do very, very little for you in that regard. That's just the nature of the business. You can waste time and emotion ranting about how that's not fair, or you can embrace reality and operate accordingly. It is what it is. Consequently, publishers are most enthusiastic about authors who have a firm grasp of their audience and are both willing and able to get in front of them and spread the word once the book has been released - in other words, authors who are capable of effective marketing and promotion. If you're not comfortable with doing that, don't write books. It's a lot of work (takes a year or so to get it on the street) and it won't be rewarding for you if it dies a quiet death once it's available for sale. With that in mind, here are his comments to me. If you're interested in writing for Apress, I'll be happy to hook you up.
I’m now doing big data books—both specific technologies like Hadoop and as it relates to sectors like healthcare or finance—so feel free to pass my name along to any developer friend working in that area.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity
I'm curious if the tech publishing industry treats its writers any better than most fiction publishers do? This post was triggered by SF author/blogger Sarah Hoyt doing a retrospective[^] on her state of the industry post from 2011 titled "He Beats Me But He’s My Publisher". Short version: it hasn't gotten any better.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm curious if the tech publishing industry treats its writers any better than most fiction publishers do? This post was triggered by SF author/blogger Sarah Hoyt doing a retrospective[^] on her state of the industry post from 2011 titled "He Beats Me But He’s My Publisher". Short version: it hasn't gotten any better.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I've always enjoyed a great relationship with my publisher and they treat me quite well. You'll find that the root of most artistic complaints (and not just in writing) is unrealistic expectations. Creative people expect that they shouldn't have to do anything but create and then sit back and let everyone else do all the work of gemerating revenue. They're also shocked when businesses act like for-profit entities. Not surprisingly,when you approach the world with such expectations, you'll suffer a never ending stream of disappointments. Whether it's books, music, film, dance, graphics or any other creative endeavor, if you want to make a full or part time living at it, you have to understand and embrace the business side of things. Wishful thinking is not an effective strategy. In fact, that's why I wrote Have Fun, Get Paid, to help those who really do want to help themselves. 95% of creatives will run screaming in the opposite direction and continue to search for a "somethiing for nothing" lifestyle. The other 5% will enjoy success, and will also have a much more positive relationship with their industry.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity The Career Programmer
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That's an option these days, and one I considered for my own work. However, it would cost me thousands of dollars to hire the professional editors, compositors, artists and other talent to insure a professional quality title. Working with a publisher, I get those services for free. And of course, any author who feels that he shouldn't have to participate in the marketing and promotion of his work won't have much fun in the world of self publishing. There are benefits to self publishing and to working with an established publisher. I looked at both and went the approach that would serve me best. That said, there is no path that doesn't involve the author being actively engaged in promotion. Have you had good experiences self publishing your own books?
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity The Career Programmer
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That's an option these days, and one I considered for my own work. However, it would cost me thousands of dollars to hire the professional editors, compositors, artists and other talent to insure a professional quality title. Working with a publisher, I get those services for free. And of course, any author who feels that he shouldn't have to participate in the marketing and promotion of his work won't have much fun in the world of self publishing. There are benefits to self publishing and to working with an established publisher. I looked at both and went the approach that would serve me best. That said, there is no path that doesn't involve the author being actively engaged in promotion. Have you had good experiences self publishing your own books?
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity The Career Programmer
I wrote a maths textbook years ago which was published in the traditional manner (All the internet facilities did not exist then) but I never had time to promote it. I took it back from the publisher and published in on Lulu. I know that self publishing means spending time on promotion, and I concentrate on writing articles now
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I wrote a maths textbook years ago which was published in the traditional manner (All the internet facilities did not exist then) but I never had time to promote it. I took it back from the publisher and published in on Lulu. I know that self publishing means spending time on promotion, and I concentrate on writing articles now
Yeah, there's different motivations for writing and as you well know, a book is a heckuva lot of work. Of course, what they don't tell you in the beginning is that's when it's published, the work has just begun. :-D
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity The Career Programmer
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Yeah, there's different motivations for writing and as you well know, a book is a heckuva lot of work. Of course, what they don't tell you in the beginning is that's when it's published, the work has just begun. :-D
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living with Your Creativity The Career Programmer
