You can tell I\u2019m pretty busy because my usual high rate of blogging has dropped significantly in the last month. Apologies for that. The blogging has become writing. I am involved in 2 book projects. I\u2019ve just seen on Twitter that details on one of those has just gone public. I actually just saw the tweet seconds after I sent off a chapter I just finished.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year I proposed an idea for a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtualization book to Wiley Publishing\/Sybex. It took quite a bit of work to tune the proposal. It requires an understanding of the subject matter, the audience, and ideas on how it can be marketed. You could think that a brief overview on the subject matter would be enough. But no, the publisher needs much more detail. You pretty much have to provide a detailed project plan for every heading (3 levels deep), page estimates and time estimates. The proposal evolved over the weeks and eventually went through a couple of reviews. I then got the news: an ISBN number was assigned and contracts were on the way \u2013 I was going to be a lead author on my own book for the very first time!!!! I did get drunk that night \u2013 I think.<\/p>\n
The deadlines are very tight. I was considering seeking help. My contact in Sybex advised that I outsource some of the chapters to a co-author. I knew the person I wanted to bring in. Wilbour Craddock is a technical specialist in the partner team with Microsoft Ireland. Will (Irish folks will know him as the crazy Canadian who is always wearing shorts) is also a former SBS MVP. His job has him spending a lot of time working with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center, making him a perfect co-author to work with on this project. Thankfully, Will agreed to hop on board the crazy train of book writing.<\/p>\n
Another MVP (I won\u2019t say who yet because I don\u2019t have permission to name him) is the technical editor under the employment of Sybex. He\u2019s an ace at this stuff and will make sure everything we do is up to scratch.<\/p>\n
The book is called Mastering Hyper-V Deployment<\/em><\/u><\/strong>. I won\u2019t go into the details of it yet. But you can bet that it is based on our collective experience and knowledge of the product set involved in a Hyper-V deployment. I saw a gap in the market and figured I could probably write (or a good chunk of) the book to fill it. The estimated release is in November 19th of this year. That means we need to finish writing in July. It has started to appear on some sites for pre-order.<\/p>\n I\u2019m two chapters in a the moment. I\u2019m really pushing my hardware at home to its limits and am \u201cthis close\u201d to buying more. Will is ahead of schedule and has one chapter nearly done.<\/p>\n I am also working on another book project as a co-author for a friend\u2019s book. It\u2019s another on-subject book that is turning out to be a good experience. I\u2019ve one chapter done on that and am 50% through the other. I\u2019ll talk more about that when the time is right.<\/p>\n As you may have read in my previous posts about my chapters in Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>, the original draft edit is just the very start of the process. There are numerous technical, language, layout and copy edits for each and every chapter. It\u2019s a lot of work but it\u2019s a great experience. And I can\u2019t wait for the buzz to see my name as the lead author of a book in a book shop. I had to really try when I saw Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a> in Barnes & Noble over in Belleview WA back in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can tell I\u2019m pretty busy because my usual high rate of blogging has dropped significantly in the last month. Apologies for that. The blogging has become writing. I am involved in 2 book projects. I\u2019ve just seen on Twitter that details on one of those has just gone public. I actually just saw the … Continue reading “So \u2026 What Exactly Am I Writing?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[171,60,175,181,184,83,193,194,195,196,103],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-books","tag-configuration-manager","tag-dpm","tag-hyper-v","tag-linux","tag-operations-manager","tag-system-center","tag-system-center-essentials","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmm","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}