Finally had lunch with my book editors, who are blogging and tweeting now

Last week, I finally got to meet my book editors. As I stated in the acknowledgements of my book, I never understood why book authors always profusely thank their editors. I used to think “aren’t they just doing their jobs?” until I had to go through the process.

People often ask me why did I go two months without sleeping in order to make my chapter deadlines. The obvious reason was to create the scholarship fund. But the non-obvious reason was to complete my chapters as soon as possible, as it was my only way of really thanking my editors and the powers-that-be at Microsoft Press for giving me the opportunity to write a book in 3 months. (yes, 3 months from offer to printer – my eyesight is still recovering. I never want to hear an eye doctor say “OMG what have you done?” ever again).

But what I really want to call out is that they are blogging (https://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/) and tweeting (@MicrosoftPress). I really like the ideas they shared with me over lunch for blogging and twittering, so I want to give them some link love and hope you’ll do the same. I’m all for making Microsoft more transparent and (dare i say it) agile.

From Left, Melissa von Tschudi-Sutton, Devon Musgrave, and Me.

Shameless plug #2 for the day: If you go to their blog right now, you’ll see an article about my book and an excerpt of chapter 4.

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2009
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• Anonymous
  February 17, 2009
  Congrats on your book Sara! I just finished working with the fabulous pair in your photo as well (on Solid Code). They are great aren't they!

• Anonymous
  February 21, 2009
  I look forward to reading your book. You've done a lot of good with these tips, Sara...I feel as though they've saved my sanity on more than one occasion. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into helping people. It's really appreciated.