My Book is Finally Out
by admin on Dec.12, 2005, under Jeremy
My first real book was finally released a few days ago. It’s a
multi-author book written by myself and seven other guys
about ADO.NET 2.0 (database access for the non .NET programmers). I met
most of the other authors at the MVP summit in Redmond, WA in May of
2004. We began writing this book a few months later in the
summer of 2004
against early alpha versions of .NET 2.0 and finished writing the
majority of it in January of 2005.
This wasn’t the first book I’ve worked on; I wrote 30 of the “recipes” for the ASP.NET Developer’s Cookbook,
and wrote an e-book on GDI+ for CSharp Today.
I really feel this one is different though, because it’s
significantly more content than I wrote for the other two, I’ve
always had a lot of respect for the Wrox Professional series and
it’s
been a goal of mine to write for them for a number of years now.
I have to admit though, now that I’ve done it, I don’t think I’ll do it
again.
I enjoyed writing it, and have enjoyed working with the other authors
and the people at Wiley/Wrox, but it was a significant amount of work,
much
more than I expected. I don’t feel the money I’m going to earn from it
is worth the time I put into it. Not just with this book, I believe
that’s
the case for any technical book. I don’t regret working on it at all
though; money wasn’t really the motivating factor.
