About a month ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me to gauge my interest in writing a book on the Adobe Flash Platform and Android operating system. After speaking with her and nailing things down with the assistance of Acquisition Editor Wilson D’souza, a contract was put together and I’m now well into writing the first chapter.
The book itself will be in the form of a cookbook with a variety of recipes concerning both Flash Professional and Flash Builder projects, Adobe AIR and Flash Player for Android. I fortunately have excellent connections in this area and one of my goals is to make sure that, upon publication, the book is as up to date as possible in regard to tooling and runtimes. I’ve been knee-deep in AIR for Android since the early pre-release days when we were all compiling .apk files through CLI; warms my heart that I’ll be able to put all of this to good use!
As a result of this project, which will take me well into the Summer of 2011, I’ll be placing some other projects on a slow simmer. I have always gotten a great amount of use from the cookbooks I own and am quite pleased to offer my contribution to this excellent format.
I beg my friends and family to have a little more patience with me over the next 6-8 months :)
A little about Packt:
Packt is a modern publishing company, producing cutting-edge books and eBooks for communities of developers, administrators, and newbies alike. Packt, pronounced Packed, published its first book “Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management” in April 2004 and has continued to produce highly specialized books on understanding and applying IT technologies.
Good luck Joseph! I can’t wait ’til it is published. But that must seem like a long way away at the moment. :-)
Thank you, Adrian! It does seem like a long way away- I’m approaching the writing just as I do with my audio CD releases: 1 track == 1 chapter. Makes the process seem familiar (even though it is totally new for me).
Nice! Looks like an awesome book. Can’t wait for it to be published ;) If you need a tech editor let me know.
Good work!
Thanks much, Sean. I will keep that in mind – not sure what the process for tech review is yet but good to know people are excited about it!
Congrats man! Writing a book is hard work, good luck! Would love to tech edit too if you still need to find tech editors. When I wrote mine we had to come up with a list of people we’d like to edit our books, so if you get to choose sign me up!
Thanks, Omar. I appreciate it! Fun stuff so far- I love writing about AIR and such so it is hardly a chore.
Not sure what their tech review process is like yet – good to know I have some willing participants if it comes down to it.