As I've said before, sales of my book
have generally sucked. Again, great reviews and lots of e-mail from
people who really liked it, but A-W did an incredibly shitty job
marketing it (putting ASP.NET 2.0 on the cover would've been a good
start).
Today there was a DHL package at my door. The address was
from one of my former instructors from college, back in the old
radio/TV days. I wondered what the hell he could possibly be sending
me. Aside from a few e-mail exchanges, I haven't really kept in touch
with him.
I opened it and found my book, with a request to
autograph it. How crazy is that? It's really weird when one of your
former mentors now looks to you as an equal, or more.
I don't
know if I'll ever write another book, but I'm still very proud of the
fact that a great many people are getting a lot out of it.