I took to some time earlier today to share some of my own anecdotal experiences in writing 5 books for O'Reilly Media over the past 5 years in a post entitled "5 Questions for Aspiring Author-Entrepreneurs" - http://wp.me/p3QiJd-53
The questions that I examine are these:
* What are your motives?
* How long will it take?
* To self-publish or not to self-publish?
* Is it a project or a product?
* What is its expected shelf life?
The post is about 2,500 words and the tl;dr is that you should seriously consider thinking of yourself as an author-entrepreneur and thinking of your book as a startup. One other post (from back in August) is also in the book-as-a-startup category and talks about some of the lessons I learned in writing a 2nd Edition of a book that was already somewhat well-established - http://miningthesocialweb.com/category/book-as-a-startup/
Would be glad to chat more if I can be of any help to you. I'm easy enough to find as ptwobrussell just about anywhere.
The questions that I examine are these:
* What are your motives?
* How long will it take?
* To self-publish or not to self-publish?
* Is it a project or a product?
* What is its expected shelf life?
The post is about 2,500 words and the tl;dr is that you should seriously consider thinking of yourself as an author-entrepreneur and thinking of your book as a startup. One other post (from back in August) is also in the book-as-a-startup category and talks about some of the lessons I learned in writing a 2nd Edition of a book that was already somewhat well-established - http://miningthesocialweb.com/category/book-as-a-startup/
Would be glad to chat more if I can be of any help to you. I'm easy enough to find as ptwobrussell just about anywhere.
HTH.