Hello Andy, > 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.
great - expect to hear a few questions from me then. I have to wrap up man 1.6, and then I will focus on finishing the proposal. > 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. The proposal email is fine, but I wanted to ask a few things *before* sending in the proposal. > 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.) That's nice to hear - I was getting scared by some of the other replies ;) _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish Muad'Dib of Caladan (Federico L. Lucifredi)- Harvard University & BU http://metcs.bu.edu/~lucifred _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
