Chris Webb

Promoting Your Book – The Power of Just One Recommendation

We always hope for positive reviews of our books, but there is a rare and magical event that only occurs every once in a while. It is the ability of a single review or recommendation to propel a book to bestseller status. Case in point: Charles Petzold’s most recent book, The Annontated Turing which as [...]

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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 [...]

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Charles Petzold’s Light Summer Reading

When Windows programming legend Charles Petzold told me last week that he was going on vacation, I assumed he was off on a summer trip – perhaps the beach, or a nice resort.  “No, I’m taking some time off to read,” he replied. I assumed it was a much needed break from writing to take in [...]

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