Writing a successful programming book

Chris Sells expounds on What Makes A Book Successful.

Be sure to read the comments for my thoughts on Chris's points.

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 28, 2004
  Did you directly contact your publisher before writing any of your books to set things up or do you start out writing a book and then find the publisher - did they find you? I have written many articles of The Code Project and have considered continuing to other mediums but I'm not sure where to begin.
• Anonymous
  July 28, 2004
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• Anonymous
  July 30, 2004
  Nick: I was lucky in that Andrew Schulman found me. At the time, he was working on Undocumented Windows. Subsequently he was the series editor, and he wanted my next book (which became "Windows Internals") for the series.
  
  After "Windows Internals", the publishing team that did the Andrew Schulman series moved over to IDG. They aggressively recruited me to get me to sign, and gave me a pretty decent advance.
  
  So far I've been lucky. I've never written anything without having already having an agreement of who will publish it.
• Anonymous
  May 29, 2009
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