Ask HN: Have You Written a Book?

FiddlerClamp · on Oct 23, 2011

A gay novel about the bear subculture - probably not of interest to the majority of you, but there you are. :) http://www.bearlikeme.com

dholowiski · on Oct 28, 2011

I wrote a book, it might be of slight interest to the HN crowd. It's non-fiction. I wrote it for fun and I've sold over 60! copies of it. I self-published on Lulu.com and was shocked when Apple picked it up earlier this year and put it in the iBook store! It's "Outsourcing and using a Virtual Assistant for Fun and Profit" and it's avaialble in the iBook store, or on lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/outsourcing-and-using-a-vi...

pauldi · on Oct 23, 2011

Have never written a whole book but back in the day I contributed a number of chapters to various Wrox books on ADO.NET. Glad I did it but the Wrox editorial process was a bit of a shambles and it showed up in many of their books at the time.

If nothing else it means I can refer back to Amazon every now and then to remember what I looked like with hair. http://www.amazon.com/ADO-NET-Programmers-Reference-Adil-Reh...

01PH · on Oct 23, 2011

I published one of my thesis as a book. Always tried to get into writing a mainstream book, but working against a self set deadline with all the "other" distractions in life is tough.

What I can recommend you is taking a look at "Steve Manning How To Write A Book On Anything In 14 Days or less". Even so the title sounds very scammy and marketing'ish it provides really a solid advice for non-fiction books and gives a very structured approach. You can find of cause copies of it in various online "repositories".