Seeking Python book authors
Susan Capparelle
We're a publisher of high quality computer books currently seeking
authors for a number of Python related books. A couple of titles or
topics would be; 'Enterprise system development with Python,'
'Practical Python' and 'Effective Python.' If you can recommend
anyone with the necessary experience and skills to undertake any of
these books, please feel free to contact us.
Sincerely,
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Susan W. Capparelle
Assistant Publisher
Manning Publications Co.
209 Bruce Park Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830
su...@manning.com
tel. 203.629.2211 www.manning.com
fax. 203.629.2084
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Peter Hansen
>
> We're a publisher of high quality computer books currently seeking
> authors for a number of Python related books. A couple of titles or
> topics would be; 'Enterprise system development with Python,'
> 'Practical Python' and 'Effective Python.' If you can recommend
> anyone with the necessary experience and skills to undertake any of
> these books, please feel free to contact us.
Although I'm all warm and fuzzy about Python's continually
expanding domain of influence, I'm a little uncertain what
advantage more books would bring in the category of
"general Python programming". What is it about "Practical
Python" and "Effective Python" which existing books don't
cover adequately.
And perhaps more interestingly, what is it about "practical"
Python which makes it ineffective, and what about "effective"
Python programs make them impractical?
(Posted and emailed, in case you don't read the newsgroup.)
-Peter
dsavitsk
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"Peter Hansen" <pe...@engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3C7D8AC4...@engcorp.com...
Ron Stephens
will have a winner indeed, Ms. Capparelle!
Look, I hope you publish dozens of Python books (anything to help the
cause, besides, I gotta keep reviewing 'em), but I know what Peter
means: it would really be more helpful at this point to have more
advanced Python books, and books exploring various Python specialties.
How about a Python and Bioinformatics, a Python Scientific Programming,
a Python and AI, an Advanced Pythonic Extensions and Embedding book,
Python Game Programming, Advamced Pythonic GUI's, Python Functional
Programming and re-Factoring?
Best of all, how about a "On the Meaning of Life" by Tim Peters?
And all the authors you'll ever need for all these great advanced books
are right here on the newsgroup Ms. Capparelle, you needn't look any
further.
Hmm, better leave a few of them alone or we'll miss their open source
contributions as they all churn out more and more books... ;-)))
Ron Stephens, Python City
http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html
nlin
> We're a publisher of high quality computer books currently seeking
> authors for a number of Python related books.
As a published book author with two well-selling titles to my name, I'd
just
like to warn potential authors about my negative experience with
Manning.
After responding to a post similar to the above, I presented Manning
with a
book idea. My experience with Manning was marked by their lack of
technical
expertise on the subject matter, a failure of upper management to
understand
my book's premise, their lack of faith in the author's competence and
vision,
and their unbalanced reliance on unqualified "reviewers".
I lost months lost reworking my material to try to accommodate their
reviewers
(in the case of my book, some of these were self-proclaimed experts who
knew
little about the topic I was writing about), and to compound the misery,
my
earnest attempts to rework the focus of the book were met only with a
curt
message from upper management saying "Why the change. I thought your
book's
focus was XXX" (where XXX was not even the original focus, but only a
tangential
aspect). I never had the feeling that Manning (or at least the upper
management) was really interested in trying to understand my vision for
the
book or make an earnest attempt to work with me - it was almost as if
the
publisher was the author's adversary instead of ally!
Eventually I gave up on them, went elsewhere, and got my book published.
I was
interested in writing a book, not making an eternal sales pitch. It was
a
waste of good months working with Manning and attempting to appease
their
reviewers and to convince them of my vision. Manning trusted their
reviewers -
again, many of whom had dubious or inflated qualifications - more than
they
trusted the author - not a very productive situation for the author.
Maybe things have changed at Manning. If anyone has better experiences
with
Manning, feel free to share.
One author's opinion,
N Lin
http://linux3dgraphicsprogramming.org
David Lees
useful and accurate for a beginner like me.
David Lees
Cameron Laird
David Lees <debl2no...@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>They published 'The Quick Python Book', which I have found to be quite
>useful and accurate for a beginner like me.
>
>David Lees
>
>
>nlin wrote:
>>
>> Susan Capparelle wrote:
>>
>> > We're a publisher of high quality computer books currently seeking
>> > authors for a number of Python related books.
>>
>> As a published book author with two well-selling titles to my name, I'd
>> just
>> like to warn potential authors about my negative experience with
>> Manning.
.
.
Me, too. I've had plenty to do with Manning, some of
it disappointing, mostly OK. They're among my pre-
ferred publishers; I also understand their limits.
--
Cameron Laird <Cam...@Lairds.com>
Business: http://www.Phaseit.net
Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html