Hi, thought I would reach out to the community of writers here. I'm currently learning ML, and biotech domain knowledge, so I thought I could convert my notes into a book.
Do you have any tips on writing/publishing books for software engineers?
Here is a waiting list if you are interested in biology ;p
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I'm in the process of writing a book too. My #1 lesson so far is to validate your book ideas/content before starting with the book itself. For example, come up with a list of chapters and main ideas for each chapter, then write a blog post (or LinkedIn post or tweet) for each. You'll know for sure which ideas resonate the most with your audience.
That's true, I didn't think of validating the idea. Thought that if I have a problem and can't find the right sources then there is a gap in the market. There probably is, however I can't be sure high wide.
There's a good sign. For sure, there's more people in your shoes.
What book are you writing? Share the waiting list if you have :p
Currently I'm working on a book with 30 ways to improve our coding skills. That's the book I wish I had to turn myself into a Senior SWE
Would read it definitely. Do you want to have a review of it? Sounds interesting. If so, lets move this conv to linkedin -> linkedin.com/in/jan-piotrzkowski/
You may wish to check out Leanpub @ leanpub.com/authors. I learned of it from a recent meetup speaker in houston .
leanpub.com/authors
From their authors page:
Publish Early, Publish Often
Imagine a world where authors can earn money writing books...
You can use Leanpub to write, publish and sell an ebook or online course.
Disclaimer: I'm not yet a member/customer yet. Looks worth investigating though.
Will check it out, thanks!
for tooling, try mdbook, a markdown to pdf conversion tool for writing docs and programming related books!
link
Haven't heard of it! However I'm planning on selling it on amazon kindle store. For that I'll need to use Kindle Create for the right formatting and I can only import docx and doc files into it. But that's a good thing as I can create with google doc everything I need.
Good!
Recommended!
Any tips are welcome 🙈
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