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==~~Publishing with Amazon~~==

I was a professional software engineer for most of my life, but I've always loved writing. At 44, I decided I hate income, and moved to writing fulltime.

==~~=Margins=~~==

* ~~Inner margins~~ (~~that margin next to the binding)~~: ~~.375--1in~~, ~~depending on page count~~

==Fiction==

* ~~Outer margins: minimum .25in, recommended .5in~~

* [[Midnight's Simulacra|midnight's simulacra]], my first novel

* [[INFERNAL COLUMNS]], coming soon

==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 [[HTPwN|guide]] to the use of [[Notcurses]] to make vidid TUIs

==The Finest Machine==

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==Nascent Nonfiction==

* Fill in [[~~:Category:Computer_Science_Eponyms~~|computer science eponym list]], market as a phatty ''Dictionary of Ideas'' or ''Binet's Reader's Encyclopedia''-like deal

* Fill in [[Computer_science_eponyms|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 [[Fast UNIX Servers|low-latency, high-throughput I/O]] on UNIX and Windows, with an emphasis on ~~API's~~

* A guide to [[Fast UNIX Servers|low-latency, high-throughput I/O]] on UNIX and Windows, with an emphasis on APIs

* [[CS GRE|Computer Science GRE]] exam prep

* Definitive biography of von Neumann (as of 2009, the three major ones are all garbage)

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** 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==

* ''~~Maximum Scrunch~~''~~, a novel~~

* The Annotated ''[http://www.amazon.com/The-Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Leviathan/dp/0440539811 Illuminatus!]''

** ~~the title comes from Hans Bethe~~'s ''~~Road from Los Alamos~~'', ~~referring~~ to the ~~conditions at which implosion turns to explosion in a supernova's core collapse~~

** someone might [http://www.rawillumination.net/2011/09/proposal-for-illuminatus-reference-book.html 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 [https://sigil-ebook.com/ sigil], in conjunction with a lot of handwork.

===Margins===

* Inner margins (that margin next to the binding): .375--1in, depending on page count

* Outer margins: minimum .25in, recommended .5in

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-==Publishing with Amazon==
+I was a professional software engineer for most of my life, but I've always loved writing. At 44, I decided I hate income, and moved to writing fulltime.
-===Margins===
-* Inner margins (that margin next to the binding): .375--1in, depending on page count
+==Fiction==
-* Outer margins: minimum .25in, recommended .5in
+* [[Midnight's Simulacra|midnight's simulacra]], my first novel
+* [[INFERNAL COLUMNS]], coming soon
+==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 [[HTPwN|guide]] to the use of [[Notcurses]] to make vidid TUIs
 ==The Finest Machine==
@@ Line 12: / Line 19: @@
 ==Nascent Nonfiction==
-* Fill in [[:Category:Computer_Science_Eponyms|computer science eponym list]], market as a phatty ''Dictionary of Ideas'' or ''Binet's Reader's Encyclopedia''-like deal
+* Fill in [[Computer_science_eponyms|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 [[Fast UNIX Servers|low-latency, high-throughput I/O]] on UNIX and Windows, with an emphasis on API's
+* A guide to [[Fast UNIX Servers|low-latency, high-throughput I/O]] on UNIX and Windows, with an emphasis on APIs
 * [[CS GRE|Computer Science GRE]] exam prep
 * Definitive biography of von Neumann (as of 2009, the three major ones are all garbage)
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 ** 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==
-* ''Maximum Scrunch'', a novel
+* The Annotated ''[http://www.amazon.com/The-Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Leviathan/dp/0440539811 Illuminatus!]''
-** the title comes from Hans Bethe's ''Road from Los Alamos'', referring to the conditions at which implosion turns to explosion in a supernova's core collapse
+** someone might [http://www.rawillumination.net/2011/09/proposal-for-illuminatus-reference-book.html 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 [https://sigil-ebook.com/ sigil], in conjunction with a lot of handwork.
+===Margins===
+* Inner margins (that margin next to the binding): .375--1in, depending on page count
+* Outer margins: minimum .25in, recommended .5in