I am an author!
It's official... I'm getting a contract for my book proposal today, and with the publisher that I think is tops in .NET books right now. Even more exciting is that their marketing people think it will be a big seller. How cool is that? I hope I can deliver on that.
So I'm wondering if, as a first-time author, I should take what they give me (provided it's reasonable, and yes I've read Scott Mitchell's advice) or if I should negotiate something more. It's not my intention to get rich off of this thing, because I know how realistic that isn't, but I do want to get a fair deal. Just having something on the shelf at Border's with my name on the spine is good enough for me, and it'll certainly help establish a little credibility.
I feel pretty good about the project and what it will contain. Right now I'm trying to spend more quality time with Whidbey because it does offer (not exactly change) a lot of different ways to do things in ASP.NET.
Two and a half chapters down, about a dozen to go!