Julien Danjou 6/12/2024

A Decade of Writing Books and Selling 25,000 Copies

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The author details their 10-year journey writing and self-publishing Python programming books, including 'The Hacker’s Guide to Python' and 'Serious Python'. They discuss the challenges of time management, content structuring, proofreading, and marketing, while sharing sales figures and the impact of partnering with a publisher. The article is a first-hand account of technical writing within the software development field.

A Decade of Writing Books and Selling 25,000 Copies

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