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February 23, 2007

Client news and notes, February 2007

Congratulations to Dan Gookin on the publication of his Programmer's Guide to NCurses, just released by Wiley.

Congratulations to Sue Jenkins on the publication of her second book, Web Design: The L Line, The Express Line to Learning, from Wiley's for Dummies imprint.

Congratulations to Inman columnist Alison Rogers on completing her first book, Diary of a Real Estate Rookie: My Year of Flipping, Selling, and Rebuilding -- and What I Learned (The Hard Way), to be published this summer by Kaplan Publishing.

Congratulations to John Paul Mueller on delivering his two newest books: Mastering Windows Vista: Ultimate, Business and Enterprise (with Mark Minasi), to be published by Sybex in April; and Windows Administration at the Command Line, also due in April from Sybex.

Congratulations to Lee Varis, whose bestselling book Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies was excerpted in Macworld magazine this month, Stop Seeing Red.

Thanks for working with me!

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February 22, 2007

Links worth linking

Here's a very cool number site via Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Radar, What's Special About This Number?

This site is great for number geeks. It's great for the number impaired too. Just following this I found myself lost in the Fibonacci Sequence.

Along those lines, I want to rep more math and popular science. If you have a proposal in either arena I'd love to see it.

And here are more great links from Wiley publisher Joe Wikert, who links to Michael Hyatt's recent posts on publishing relationship management.

Joe's post is here.

He'll send you to Michael's distinct posts on the qualities that make for an ideal publisher, author or agent. Quoting Joe, "If you're an author in search of a good agent or publisher, use the (high profit, low maintenance) characteristics checklists Michael provides for each. Don't forget to read the author checklist too... The whole series of posts ought to be required reading for any publishing newbie (and not-so-newbie)."

I agree. Here's my own high profit, low maintenance mantra -- If you want to succeed in this business (and make friends and influence people) you need to be a great partner, do great work, be dependable, be easy to work with, learn to resolve conflicts peaceably, and communicate!

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February 20, 2007

Harlequin and NASCAR, a match made in pit row?

Not my genre and not my thing, so hey, maybe it will be successful, but for now I just think it's weird. Harlequin and NASCAR ink up for NASCAR themed romances. At GalleyCat, Linked.

This sounds like a genre ripe for fan fiction if there ever was one.

Whoa, I Googled it and I can tell you there really is such a thing! For NASCAR fan fiction check out TrackBunnies.

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