Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly

[Berger, Daniel]

Hi all,

I'm curious how many people out there have had a Ruby book proposal
rejected by O'Reilly & Associates in the last three years, what your
subject was, when you proposed it, and the person whom you dealt with
(i.e. who specifically rejected your proposal).

This may seem a strange question - please humor me. You can email me
offlist if you prefer at djberg96 at n0spam at gmail dot com. Remove
the 'at n0spam'.

Please don't ask why I'm asking, either. I will say nothing at this
time. For now I'm just collecting information.

Thanks,

Dan


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[Berger, Daniel]

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From: Berger, Daniel [mailto[email protected]]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:54 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly
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I'm curious how many people out there have had a Ruby book=20
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Let me expand that to the last five years (in case that matters).

Thanks,

Dan


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lol

 

[Peter Hickman]

Presumably you will also want a list of all those who made successful
pitches, including those that then had to pull out for their own reasons.

Otherwise the numbers will mean nothing. I mean, just how many 'Ruby
Cookbooks' can their be?

 

[Berger, Daniel]

-----Original Message-----

From: Peter Hickman [mailto[email protected]]=20
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:07 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Rejected Ruby book ideas by O'Reilly
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Presumably you will also want a list of all those who made successful=20
pitches, including those that then had to pull out for their=20
own reasons.

Fair enough. I'd be interested to hear about those, too.

Regards,

Dan


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[Paul Wood]

What in the world are you talking about? Qwest is a telecom. We do not
publish books. There is no conflict of interest here. And there was no
criticism in my question. It's just a question. I think ORA is, on the
whole, a very good publisher.

Please, don't try to guess why I'm asking - it won't work.

Regards,

Dan


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Berger, This is your boos.
You're fired for prattling on on company time.
I'll expect you out of the office by tomorrow !!!

 

[Paul Wood]

Berger, This is your boos.
You're fired for prattling on on company time.
I'll expect you out of the office by tomorrow !!!

Boos ?? Did I say Boos ? I meant boss

 

[Dark Ambient]

Berger, This is your boos.
You're fired for prattling on on company time.
I'll expect you out of the office by tomorrow !!!

Sounds harsh , till I read it came from boos.

S

 

[OliverMarchand]

From my point of view you might be ruining your chances to ever publish
a book with O'Reilly. You are asking people to give fairly confidential
information here. Maybe you should rethink you business practices.

To say something about O'Reilly. I had one book proposal rejected two
years ago. The process was very friendly, professional, fast and I was
enthusiastic that they really called me. We discussed the idea and I
could understand 100% that the proposal didn't work for them.

ciao, Oliver

 

[Hal Fulton]

Sounds harsh , till I read it came from boos.

Berger, this is your booze talking. What's this we hear
about you quitting Qwest to work for O'Reilly? That's a
blow to our fiber optic book publishing department.


Hal

 

[Eero Saynatkari]

Hi all,

I'm curious how many people out there have had a Ruby book proposal
rejected by O'Reilly & Associates in the last three years, what your
subject was, when you proposed it, and the person whom you dealt with
(i.e. who specifically rejected your proposal).

This may seem a strange question - please humor me. You can email me
offlist if you prefer at djberg96 at n0spam at gmail dot com. Remove
the 'at n0spam'.

Please don't ask why I'm asking, either. I will say nothing at this
time. For now I'm just collecting information.

You think you can exploit this loophole in the Rules?
Ha! I will show you! There is nothing my simian minions
cannot achieve given sufficient oranges.

You may have dealt me an underhanded blow but the Puppetmaster
will be Asking Questions soon and your backers will start
disappearing. You will have to deal with Jones then and
there is a distinctive variability present whenever that
is the case.

In any event, the Yon Syndicate is onto you--if I were you,
I would watch my back. They have bought out all printer ink
cartridge manufacturers and are planning on inserting vampires
in them in their bid to seize control of the Eastern New Jersey
seagull mines.

Thanks,

Dan

This is not the communication you are looking at.

 

[William Crawford]

1. Who is This matz Person Anyway? (*)

That's absolutely hilarious.

(*) That title was later accepted at Megadodo Publications, Ursa Minor
Beta.

Even without that bit.

 

[William Crawford]

A question to all native speakers,
is there a big difference (semantically, that word is 4 U Devin )
between thread & threat, sounds all alike to me

I hope you meant to be humorous with that, because ... well, it's
hilarious.

A 'thread' is a piece of string OR a conversation between multiple
people on a forum or list.

A 'threat' is when someone tells someone else they are going to hurt
them.

Now, it's humorous because quite often in heated discussions... The
majority of the thread is threats

No offense intended if you didn't mean to be funny... But it was.

 

[Matt Todd]

01. nil?

Awesome. I may well steal this!

How about...

self.responds_to? :love

Or any manner of self-inspection or meta-self-cognition method calls...

Any _good_ ideas?

M.T.

 

[Simen Edvardsen]

Are you gonna write "Mastering O'Reilly Book Rejections"? Or
"Head-first Becoming an Unemployed Book Author"?

How about "Writing a Book for O'Reilly (And Have It Rejected!) in a Nutshell"?

Also, someone should write a for beginners book about writing books
for beginners. That would be funny just for the meta-ness of it.

 

[William Grosso]

How about "Writing a Book for O'Reilly (And Have It Rejected!) in a
Nutshell"?

Also, someone should write a for beginners book about writing books
for beginners. That would be funny just for the meta-ness of it.

I wrote a couple of O'Reilly books. I'm not going to write a book about
writing books, but I'd be glad to answer some questions (or introduce
prospective authors to my editors there).


Bill

 

[Charles O Nutter]

10. Swine Life: The Autobiography of Chuck E. Bacon
09. Ruby.on_java #=> JRuby

Hey now, we've got publishers begging to do a JRuby book

 

[Devin Mullins]

Or any manner of self-inspection or meta-self-cognition method calls...

Any _good_ ideas?

extend self

 

[Simen Edvardsen]

I wrote a couple of O'Reilly books. I'm not going to write a book about
writing books, but I'd be glad to answer some questions (or introduce
prospective authors to my editors there).

I'm not planning to write a book, but perhaps that's what the original
poster was. I just thought the idea was amusing.