<story><title>Tips for Writing a Technical Book</title><url>https://performancejs.com/post/31b361c/13-Tips-for-Writing-a-Technical-Book</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nbaksalyar</author><text>Thank you, this is very timely: recently I got a cold email from an acquisition editor too and been researching this fascinating topic of writing tech books. :)&lt;p&gt;Some more helpful resources I found:&lt;p&gt;- Advice to Prospective Book Authors from Scott Meyers (of Effective C++ fame): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aristeia.com&amp;#x2F;authorAdvice.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aristeia.com&amp;#x2F;authorAdvice.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;I wrote a book&amp;quot; by Tryggvi Björgvinsson: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.to&amp;#x2F;trickvi&amp;#x2F;i-wrote-a-book-lfg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.to&amp;#x2F;trickvi&amp;#x2F;i-wrote-a-book-lfg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Writing a technical book&amp;quot; by Ian Miell: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zwischenzugs.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;writing-a-technical-book&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zwischenzugs.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;writing-a-technical-book...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Then there are some good discussion about this topic on HN. You can try searching by keywords like &amp;quot;ask hn + writing a book&amp;quot;, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14300932&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14300932&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tips for Writing a Technical Book</title><url>https://performancejs.com/post/31b361c/13-Tips-for-Writing-a-Technical-Book</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmason</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been a technical editor on a few programming titles.  I don&amp;#x27;t think the average developer realizes that for the authors writing a book is a passion project.&lt;p&gt;Not only won&amp;#x27;t you get rich, you will be extremely lucky to make minimum wage.  Most if not all the marketing is on your shoulders. Even though it&amp;#x27;s a hits driven business the publishers do all right though.</text></comment>