Scott Duffy's Book Writing Log

An account of my experiences writing computer programming books.

Hi there. My name is Scott Duffy, and welcome to my book writing log. I have documented the process of writing my last two books on this site, and have started my third. This book will be called Visual Studio Team System In Action, and should be available in 2005.

Thursday, September 02, 2004

Do We Have a Deal?

Well, it looks like one of the pending book deals came through. You'll be hearing more from me in the coming weeks on this, once the ink dries on the contract.

But the other one is still in a bit of limbo. There apparently has been some personnel changes at the publishers, and so the status of my proposal is unknown. Depends on how the new boss wants to proceed with pending projects.

I'm going to press my agent to find another deal, just in case. I really think 1 deal over the coming 6-12 months is not enough. I need 1 for now, and 1 for the winter. Possibly 1 for the spring too!

1 Comments:

  • At 3:11 PM, Anonymous said…

    You blog is very informative and entertaining to read. As I learn more about the book writing process I wonder whether one has time while undertaking the time-consuming process of writing a book to do other things, e.g., take out the garbage, brush one's teeth ...

    Steve Shu
    Managing Director
    S4 Management Group
    http://sshu-s4.tripod.com/blog

     

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