书籍作者

Awesome Book Authoring¶

的集合 技术书籍作者的资源.

Must Reads¶

• Scott Meyers' Advice to Prospective Book Authors
• Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile?

Book Proposals¶

• The Proposal (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)
• Scott Meyers' Advice on Preparing a Book Proposal
• Write for Us (Pearson Education)
• Drafting a Proposal (Que Publishing)
• Anatomy of a TOC (Que Publishing)
• Proposal Guidelines (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Contracts¶

• Book Contract: What’s Negotiable and What’s Not
• Scott Meyers' Advice on Contracts
• The Contract (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)
• Apress Standard Contract
• No Starch Press Standard Contract

Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff¶

• Scott Meyers on Royalties, Advances, and Other Money Stuff
• Royalties and Advances (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)
• Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile? - 编写技术书籍的好处，以及书籍进展如何运作的基础知识.
• How Book Advances Work – A Simple Explanation for Writers
• Typical O'Reilly Advance Structure

Editors¶

• Scott Meyers on the Importance of a Good Editor
• The Editing Process and Editor Types (Que Publishing)
• Writing and Editing (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

Publishers¶

• Scott Meyers' Advice on Finding a Publisher

Marketing¶

• Marketing Your Book (O'Reilly: So You Want to Write a Book?)

Misc.¶

• Scott Meyers on Advance Sales, and How They Are Impacted by The Delivery Schedule
• Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book? - 关于 Hacker News 的讨论，许多作者讨论了他们的经验.

List of Publishers¶

• O’Reilly
• Apress
• The Pragmatic Programmers
• Packt Publishing
• Pearson (parent company for Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams, and more)
• Que Publishing
• Manning Publications
• Wrox
• No Starch Press

Self Publishing¶

• Self vs Professional Publishing - 各自的优缺点，以及许多可用于自助出版的选项.

Writing Workflows and Tooling¶

• Living the Future of Technical Writing - Scott Chacon 分享了他在 Asciidoc 中编写“Pro Git”的工作流程和工具.

Personal Experiences, Post Mortems and Campfire Stories¶

• Writing a Programming Book: FAQs after Writing Learning React Native
• Do Not Buy This Book - 杰夫阿特伍德对潜在作家的警告.
• Writing a Technical Book: Motivation, Publishing and how to stay focused without ruining your Life - Adam Tornhill 分享了他撰写三本书（其中两本自行出版）的经验.
• Writing a Technical Book - Michael Foord 与 Apress 分享他的出版经验.
• Tips for Writing a Programming Book