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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
Congrats, howd you go about getting them to publish you, if you don't mind me asking?
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I was approached by an acquisitions editor from Sybex for some of the work I had done and my involvement in the PHP community. I was actually just contracted to write the book rather than writing it and then pitching it...
I will say one thing, the writing is the quick and easy part. The editing is BRUTAL... After you've written each chapter the chapter goes to the acquisition editor to edit for flow and style. Then it comes back and you make or don't make recommended changes. Then it goes to a technical editor who reads it for correctness... then it comes back... then it goes to the grammatical editor... then comes back with recommended changes... then it goes BACK to the tech editor to make sure nothing got out of sync during the last editing phase. Then it goes to the layout editor who prepares the final PDF and comes back for final approval...
By the time you're on Chapter 6 you've got chapters in every stage of the editing process coming back. I think it took me a total of a month to write the thing and at least two months in editing... brutal process, hahahaha.