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Adrian B.G.

Any advice on writing my first technical book? I do not know if I should search for a publisher, make it open with donations or use a dedicated website like manning or others.

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Allan MacGregor ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Distribution is relatively simple. The tricky part is planning, organizing and actually writing the book.

My advice before you start reaching out to publishers is the following:

  • Build an outline which should have the Book Description, chapters and general structure

Pick a chapter other than the first one / introduction and put a deaf together.

That will help you structure and solidify what kinda of book you are writing, a better ideas of the effort and double as prep work since you have content that publishers will typically ask for as part of any proposal.