Re: Expert needed - McGraw-Hill professional technical book author/contributor

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:59:59 -0700, Tim Wescott <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On 18 Apr 2006 05:30:22 -0700, lweauthors@xxxxxxx wrote:


Hello,

My name is Victoria Roberts and I am the Acquisitions Administrator for
Lone Wolf Enterprises, Ltd., a book producer. McGraw-Hill has asked us
to produce books on the following general topics: signal processing,
emerging communications technologies, cutting edge digital design
techniques, and optical engineering. The prospective author should
have significant standing in his professional community and/or a strong
promotional platform.

If you are interested in becoming a published author, please reply with
your credentials to me

Thank you,

Victoria Roberts



How many copies would you expect to sell in, say, the first five
years, and what would be the ballpark revenue to the author?

John

Mine's only been out for a few weeks, but everyone I talk to with any
experience tells me that I won't recover my effort in royaltie checks
(although they may buy more than a coffee). I'm hoping that it'll lead
to more business, but if not then I've at least done my bit for
explaining a corner of human knowledge in (hopefully) a bit more
accessible way than has been done to date.

Yeah. Vic chooses to not address my question. I suspect that the deal
is that her company gets the money, and you get to furnish the work
and the "strong promotional platform" (ie, do the marketing for them
as well) for the honor of being a "published author."

It's almost as bad as the scientific journals gig, where *you* pay
*them* to have your paper published.

John

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