Authors

Working with Charles Petzold

I have alluded to this a few times here on the blog, and with Charles talking about it and Amazon.com posting the product page I suppose I should post about it as well. I have the extreme honor of working with programming legend Charles Petzold on his next book, The Annotated Turing.
The cover is [...]


Struggles with Google Books

 Wiley author Charles Petzold points out some frustrating limitations with Google Books in a recent post on his blog.
This is not a blog entry by an author who thinks that Google Books is evil because it promotes the idea of free books.
This is a blog entry by an author who sees Google Books as [...]


Hanselman Releases Ultimate Tool List for 2007

Wrox author and Microsoft Senior Product Manager Scott Hanselman has updated his Ultimate Tools Collection for Windows for 2007 . This year’s list includes tons of new tools for Windows PowerUsers and Developers.
If you are a programmer who is not reading Scott’s blog you are missing out on a great resource.


Security Expert and Wiley Author Bruce Schneier Interviews TSA’s Kip Hawley

I travel quite a bit, so I have a grin and bear it attitude when it comes to the various hoops the TSA makes us jump through at airports across the country.  But the logical side of me is often skeptical as to if what we are doing actually makes us safer.
Security expert Bruce Schneier [...]


SEO Tips for Author Blogs

Tom Masters of the Future Perfect Publishing Blog has an interview with Wiley authors Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin who give some great SEO tips for bloggers.
Every author should be blogging, and the interview includes several great tips every blogger should take advantage of.
One tasty morsel includes a link to some great SEO plugins for [...]