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Discussions About Being Bald => Bald Stories => Topic started by: Morthen on April 19, 2010, 05:51:01 PM
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Just another one of my derpy thoughts out of nowhere.
But I've seen lots of great stories, regarding the transition to sly and reactions to being bald and stuff. I just thought it would be a neat idea to compile all these stories into a book it could be sort of a confidence building book for young gents losing their hair.
Anyhow just a thought, what do you guys think?
also if someone has done this already I apologize for my tremendously stupid post
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Even if someone has thought of this before, how would that make it stupid?
I think it's a splendid idea, and a quick search on Amazon didn't turn up anything.
Even though I'm an author, this would be a bit out of my league (I write computer books), but for someone who is good at interviewing folks and compiling stories, it'd be a great project.
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I nominate Tyler !
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Even if someone has thought of this before, how would that make it stupid?
I think it's a splendid idea, and a quick search on Amazon didn't turn up anything.
Even though I'm an author, this would be a bit out of my league (I write computer books), but for someone who is good at interviewing folks and compiling stories, it'd be a great project.
no i wasn't calling the idea stupid. i was saying it was stupid of me to post this if someone has already done a bald stories book pertaining to this website. sorry for the miscommunication there
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Sounds like a good idea with a potentially large market. As an author myself its a great experience.
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Todd, what kind of books do you write?
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Even if someone has thought of this before, how would that make it stupid?
I think it's a splendid idea, and a quick search on Amazon didn't turn up anything.
Even though I'm an author, this would be a bit out of my league (I write computer books), but for someone who is good at interviewing folks and compiling stories, it'd be a great project.
Bear, do you write fiction or non-fiction.?
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Bear, do you write fiction or non-fiction.?
Books on hard-core web development.
Want the Amazon links? I could use the royalties! >:D
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Oooops, never mind. Thought maybe you wrote novels with a computer world background.
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LOL! Sometimes I do think that's the reaction some of my reader's have when they get in over their heads. 8)
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(I write computer books)
Bootedbear is being modest. It's little known in these circles, but he's also published award-winning poetry about misunderstood teenage vampires.
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Hey bootedbear -- I just finished the final round of edits on Beginning Drupal 7 for Apress Publishing. Drupal is a web content management system. So like you -- in the IT arena. My second book is underway -- Pro Drupal Development 3rd Edition, also published by Apress.
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Bootedbear is being modest. It's little known in these circles, but he's also published award-winning poetry about misunderstood teenage vampires.
... that write JavaScript!
Bet that's an episode of The Vampire Diaries that you'll never see!
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I just finished the final round of edits on Beginning Drupal 7 for Apress Publishing.
Very cool, Todd! Is that your first book?
(Does it not seem that the "final round of edits" never seems to end?)
Here's the Bear Bookshelf (http://www.amazon.com/Bear-Bibeault/e/B001JORYY6)
I'm currently putting the wraps on the 2nd edition of jQuery in Action which will be book #4.
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OMG I have your books! What a small world we live in. Your JQuery in Action book was one of my most used books last year. Beginning Drupal 7 was my first book. It was quite a journey. I wrote 600 pages in 4 weeks while working full time and heading into surgery (gall bladder). Its taken 12 weeks to edit those 600 pages. But I now know the publishers processes and procedures. Pro Drupal Development is a significantly more difficult book to write as documentation on Drupal 7 is sparse at best.
Wow still amazed! JQuery in Action saved me hundreds of hours of frustration.
Any other authors out there?
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OMG I have your books! What a small world we live in. Your JQuery in Action book was one of my most used books last year.
Too cool!
Beginning Drupal 7 was my first book. It was quite a journey. I wrote 600 pages in 4 weeks while working full time and heading into surgery (gall bladder). Its taken 12 weeks to edit those 600 pages. But I now know the publishers processes and procedures. Pro Drupal Development is a significantly more difficult book to write as documentation on Drupal 7 is sparse at best.
Did it surprise you how much work it actually is, over and above the writing?
I had no idea when I worked on my first...
Wow still amazed! JQuery in Action saved me hundreds of hours of frustration.
Glad to hear it!
P.S. I just pre-ordered your book -- gotta support a fellow sly author! O0
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I didn't have a clue how much work the editing process would consume. I was pretty elated over how quickly the initial write was. The edits have been a very painful process - but the end result is significantly better than the first pass. A friend of mine wrote a book back in 1995 and said that he could have made more money by working the same number of hours at McDonalds. I hope that's not the case!
Thank you for the pre-order. I'll do the same on your next edition of JQuery.
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I think a head shaving book would be a good idea. One guy from a DE forum (Badger and Blade) wrote a book on traditional wet shaving (Liesureguy's Guide to Gourmet Shaving) and it's had great success. It started just like this...a typical guy on a forum thinking it would be a good idea and just taking the initiative to get started. O0
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I like comic books b@b~
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A friend of mine wrote a book back in 1995 and said that he could have made more money by working the same number of hours at McDonalds. I hope that's not the case!
Well, as I've said, if you're in it for the money, you may be disappointed.
For me it's a resume builder.
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Hi I know I am responding to an old post but I think a book on this subject would be great. I'd love to do it as a graphic novel but my drawing not great. Anyone out there interested in illustrating with me? I can do sketches well enough to show what I have in mind but obviously would want you to bring your aesthetic to the table too. I worry there is a shift backwards in accepting and embracing baldness, at least in England. Recently a few celebritys have had hair transplants - each to their own but I think the subtext of such action suggest hair is always better. I disagree. I have an idea for a graphic story if anyone interested to work on it?
Just so you get an idea I love the work of Will Eisner, and Harvey Pekar
Hang loose
Zed