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I want to publish a technical book. Anyone can share his publishing experience?

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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
How do you find a good publisher for a Book about Project Management ?
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Stellian

Check with Karthik, he recently published a book:

https://www.projectmanagement.com/profile/KarthikRamamurthy

RK
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2 replies by Stelian ROMAN
Aug 02, 2020 5:33 AM
Stelian ROMAN
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Thank you Rami. I contacted him. Let's see...
Feb 09, 2021 7:52 PM
Stelian ROMAN
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Thank you Rami.
Bad idea, he just want to be a co-author.
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Larry Miner Founder and Sr. Project Management of Decision Memory Systems| Decision Memory Systems Bath, Oh, United States
Might want to start here; https://www.projectmanagement.com/discussi...agement-Authors
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1 reply by Stelian ROMAN
Aug 03, 2020 5:00 PM
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Thank you Larry. What I am interested in was the publishing process not why or how to write a book. I wrote few books 40 years ago about programming in c/c++ and I am aware how hard is to write something good and new. However, it is also rewarding. I am not doing it for money but to share my mistakes in the hope that other will do their own rather than reinventing the wheel.
I have a series of webinars and I am asked often "where we can read more about this"?. Most of what I present are original ideas based on my experience, that were not published by someone else or by me.

I am looking for something else than self publishing or to pay 10,000$ to a ghost writing company.
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Marcus Udokang Project Manager| Aivaz Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Stellian,

You could try Scribe, at scribewriting.com/services/ . The owner of the company is Tucker Max. You can connect with him on LinkedIn. He has published a few books on project management. Scribe will do the publishing and marketing for you.

Marcus
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2 replies by Stelian ROMAN
Aug 02, 2020 5:32 AM
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Thank you.
Aug 02, 2020 5:36 AM
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They ask for at least $10,000. That's not really what I'm looking for :).
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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
Aug 02, 2020 3:51 AM
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Stellian,

You could try Scribe, at scribewriting.com/services/ . The owner of the company is Tucker Max. You can connect with him on LinkedIn. He has published a few books on project management. Scribe will do the publishing and marketing for you.

Marcus
Thank you.
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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
Jul 31, 2020 9:23 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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Stellian

Check with Karthik, he recently published a book:

https://www.projectmanagement.com/profile/KarthikRamamurthy

RK
Thank you Rami. I contacted him. Let's see...
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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
Aug 02, 2020 3:51 AM
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Stellian,

You could try Scribe, at scribewriting.com/services/ . The owner of the company is Tucker Max. You can connect with him on LinkedIn. He has published a few books on project management. Scribe will do the publishing and marketing for you.

Marcus
They ask for at least $10,000. That's not really what I'm looking for :).
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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
Aug 01, 2020 2:00 PM
Replying to Larry Miner
Thank you Larry. What I am interested in was the publishing process not why or how to write a book. I wrote few books 40 years ago about programming in c/c++ and I am aware how hard is to write something good and new. However, it is also rewarding. I am not doing it for money but to share my mistakes in the hope that other will do their own rather than reinventing the wheel.
I have a series of webinars and I am asked often "where we can read more about this"?. Most of what I present are original ideas based on my experience, that were not published by someone else or by me.

I am looking for something else than self publishing or to pay 10,000$ to a ghost writing company.
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1 reply by Carl Young
Jan 27, 2021 5:19 PM
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Hi Stelian. First, thanks for your great video series. To answer your question I published a book via McGraw-Hill-Osborne in 2004. A lot has probably changed since then.
1) The publisher contacted me. For that reason I was able to negotiate an advance and get my name on the cover. And a whopping marketing budget of $500.
2) I submitted an H1&H2 outline using an MS Word template.
3) We negotiated over the content briefly.
4) I submitted a detailed outline H1, H2, H3 and paragraph summary.
5) They paid the first third of the advance.
6) I wrote 1/2 the book and used Visio to create illustrations.
7) They paid the second installment.
8) I finished the book.
9) We reviewed edits from the copy editor.
10) Book was published and I was paid the final third.
Lessons Learned
1) The book sold poorly so the only money I saw was from the advance.
2) The experience was stressful and caused me sleepless nights.
3) My ROI (payment/time) was far less than minimum wage.
I would not do it again unless I was paid a huge advance.
My editor told me that less than half of all book contracts are fulfilled by the authors.
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Marcus Udokang Project Manager| Aivaz Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Two other options

www.steveharrison.com
publish.friesenpress.com
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1 reply by Stelian ROMAN
Aug 06, 2020 6:24 PM
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Marcus, thank you for the references but I am not interested in links to agencies where I should pay a lot of money. I was looking for advice from someone who published a book as a hobby.
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Andrew Soswa Technology leader| Leading global financial institution Elk Grove Village, Il, United States
With a volunteering group, I released a book on Amazon.
Writing time = 6 sprints
Final edit & release = 6 hours
See this website for step-by-step https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US?ref_=kdpgp_p_us_psg_kw_ad89
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Aug 06, 2020 6:29 PM
Stelian ROMAN
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Thank you Andrew. That's closer to what I am looking for but I was aware of self publishing options. I thought that there are other ways.
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Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia
Aug 04, 2020 11:31 PM
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Two other options

www.steveharrison.com
publish.friesenpress.com
Marcus, thank you for the references but I am not interested in links to agencies where I should pay a lot of money. I was looking for advice from someone who published a book as a hobby.
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