I'm sorry I wasn't on this (off-topic) thread earlier, but I don't have time to read every mailing list every day. I do some casual Perl coding of my own and edited a few Perl books at O'Reilly in the past, but I'm not in the Perl loop these days. So I can't judge whether a particular book idea would interest the right editors here, but I don't mind people coming to me with proposals, and I can forward them to somebody if they look at all viable.
The proposals alias works, but it takes time and sometimes the person handling the alias has trouble deciding whom to send the proposal to. Still, if you list a language it will probably go to the right person. So far as I know, the O'Reilly editors take ideas from outsiders all the time, and are particularly willing to listen to outsiders who have some connection and some standing in the community. (Although the complex relationships between O'Reilly and some of the people on this list would be scary to try to elucidate.) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editor 90 Sherman Street voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02140-3233 fax: 617-661-1116 USA http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ Stories at Web site: The Bug in the Seven Modules Code the Obscure The Disconnected ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm