Book ideas

Midnight's Simulacra, my first novel coming 2024-01-01!

Modern UNIX Programming

• An update to Stevens+Rago (update 2016: there's a recent 3rd edition of APIUE, so maybe this is handled)

Hacking the Planet! with Notcurses

• A guide to the use of Notcurses to make vidid TUIs

The Finest Machine

(Not) Funded on Kickstarter

The Finest Machine: The Science and the Joy of Computing.

• Computing from the ground up, beginning with formal systems and moving up through information theory, VLSI, microprocessors and programming languages.
• Failed Kickstarter project
• Table of Contents

Nascent Nonfiction

• Fill in computer science eponym list, market as a phatty Dictionary of Ideas or Binet's Reader's Encyclopedia-like deal
• (major and semi-esoteric) Trees. A chapter on each, kinda like The Periodic Kingdom
• A guide to low-latency, high-throughput I/O on UNIX and Windows, with an emphasis on APIs
• Computer Science GRE exam prep
• Definitive biography of von Neumann (as of 2009, the three major ones are all garbage)
  • possible title: Fekete Pestis (sets up unfortunate puns on my last name, though)
• The Well-Tempered Computer (working title): an in-depth guide to modern computer hardware with an emphasis on standards
  • Everything from the input power to the output LEDs
  • Creative Commons license
• Peak CUDA: A guide to NVIDIA microarchitecture and programming for peak on CUDA
• ATLympics, a short, poppy history/analysis of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games

Nascent Fiction

• The Annotated Illuminatus!
  • someone might already be doing this
• The Annotated Southland Tales

Notes on publishing with Amazon

I've successfully published on Amazon using LaTeX.

For making EPUB, I recommend tex4ebook. Use -x to drive XeTeX.

Margins

• Inner margins (that margin next to the binding): .375--1in, depending on page count
• Outer margins: minimum .25in, recommended .5in