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

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

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.

As Carl has unearthed this relatively old necro-post, having just published my first book, I'd recommend the use of a self-publishing agency as they can handle the administrative challenges of distribution across multiple channels (e.g. print vs. hardcopy, Amazon vs. Chapters), and creating suitable print-ready versions of your manuscript at a reasonable cost. Being in Canada, I went with one of our local self-publishing companies, Tellwell, but I'm sure there are similar economically priced options in all geographic regions.

Kiron

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.

Stellian

Check with Karthik, he recently published a book:

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

RK

Thank you Carl. That's what I am afraid of. I don't want to write a book to earn money, just an extension of the webinars where I try to help my colleagues.
I was a consultant and I know that you have to bend to the customer's goals if you want to earn good money. I am still ashamed of some of my actions/conclusions, although looking at the certifications market I shouldn't be :)

I have written 4 books on project management and PMOs, I am happy to help and connect. I can tell you the book business is a changing market and I would tread carefully before entering into it. You have to really understand your purpose and reasons to get into it and be prepared to spend before getting anything back. Let me know if you want to connect and we can deep dive.