[geeks] Writing...

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:34:30PM -0400, Mike Dombrowski wrote:
> With all the recent time about writing books I think it might be a 
> good time to ask, how does one go about writing a article, chapter 
> or book? I wrote a chapter for a medical text but I knew the editor 
> and I don't forsee that happening pretty often. Just contact a 
> publishing house and let them know that you're interested?

Yep, that's what I've done.  I was already one of their tech reviewers,
having been recommended to them by word-of-mouth and I've done tech
review on several of their books now so I guess they know I'm not just
another clueless wannabe, so I contacted the publisher and told them about
my idea for a book.  They tell me that it's the sort of thing they may
want to publish and have asked me for a more detailed proposal.  Must get
that to them this week, along with a first stab at an outline.

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David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

      Good advice is always certain to be ignored,
      but that's no reason not to give it            -- Agatha Christie