Almost at a store or website near you!
Nick Philipson, executive editor at Perseus books, overnighted me the first hardbound copy of Net Attitude on September 28. It was a joy to see a real book after all these months. My thanks go to all the great people at Perseus who did the design work for the art, pages, and fonts. Also, to […]
Book Party in San Francisco
My thanks to Fitzgerald Communications and Truste for hosting a book party in San Francisco on Monday night October 22. I have never been to a book party before, let alone be the one whose book was the subject of the party! I was quite honored. The origin of the party idea goes back to […]
Marketing of the book
The book was printed last week and should now be shipping to the various distributors and from there to the book retailers. Within three weeks I expect Net Attitude to be generally available. I have been thinking about how I can help the marketing efforts to maximize a successful book launch. The publisher is doing […]
Thanks for the endorsements
I always wondered how the endorsements (called blurbs) that appear on the back of the dust jacket of a book came about. Actually, I have written a dozen or so blurbs for other peoples books over the years but now with my first book of my own the reciprocal relationship needs to happen. I sent […]
Getting Net Attitude Into Print
I started writing the book in the summer of 2000 and submitted the manuscript to Perseus Publishing around the end of March 2001. Memorial Day weekend was spent going over the hardcopy manuscript that the publishers copy editor had marked up with grammatical fixes and suggested changes. Being an electrical engineer by original training I […]
