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Writing and Publishing

How do I rename hundreds of files at once?

December 26, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Linux Shell Script Programming, Writing and Publishing / 10 Comments

Dave, I’m in a bit of a pickle. Like you, I’m an author, and as I wrap up my latest book project, the development editor sent me a note saying that all the figures I’ve submitted, all 217 of them, are incorrectly named and need to be fixed. Augh! The naming scheme I’m using is FIGxxyy.TIF where xx is the chapter number and yy is the figure number. To make it a bit more complex, sometimes I use a three digit figure number and other times I use a two digit value. I need all the files to be called xxFIGyyy.TIF. How do I do that without going crazy?

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Can I fight a magazine publisher withholding payment for my article?

December 1, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Writing and Publishing / No Comments

A colleague of mine sent me a troubling question: “Dave, I recently submitted an article to a magazine I’ve worked with for a few years, and they accepted it without comment. A month passes and they’ve paid me 1/3 of the agreed upon fee, claiming that their staff had to completely rewrite it prior to publication and that cost came out of my recompense. That seems really unfair: is there anything I can do about it?”

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Can I keep track of my Amazon book rank with a script?

November 30, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Linux Shell Script Programming, Writing and Publishing / 2 Comments

Dave, do you happen to have a script that will pull Amazon.com hourly
sales rank data for 1 – N ASINs and save into either a CSV file or a
database?

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Can I get out of an overly restrictive non-compete clause in a publishing contract?

November 14, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Writing and Publishing / 1 Comment

A question came in from a fellow writer with a tale of woe: “I managed to goof up my contract with the publisher so good (being given a chance as an aspiring author and all) that I really don’t see a way out of my situation right now.

“In a nutshell, I didn’t negotiate my contract and ended with with non-compete clauses of all sorts which now prevent me to author a new
revision of my book…”

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What pitfalls do I need to avoid in an authors publishing contract?

November 6, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Writing and Publishing / 8 Comments

Having had oodles of experience with contract negotiation and publishing, I’m reviewing the contract that a very large publisher sent a colleague for a book she wants to write, and it amazes me how it has all the same anti-author clauses of just about every other publisher’s agreement I’ve seen (with a few notable exceptions). This is why people who aren’t familiar with the business really need to consider an agent, lawyer, or someone else who can represent their interests when reading through a legal document of this nature.

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Wonderful review of “Creating Cool Web Sites”

September 22, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Writing and Publishing / No Comments

I’m pleased to share this glowing review of my new book Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS from Internet expert Will Bontrager. Will and Mari Bontrager are the publishers of the highly regarded Possibilities E-zine newsletter that offers weekly insight and articles on CGI programming and design.

…Cool Web Sites ..

When Dave Taylor’s book arrived, I opened it right away.

It took very little time for me to be thoroughly impressed.

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Nice writeup of my “Creating Cool Web Sites” book

June 3, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Writing and Publishing / 2 Comments

My thanks to the Portland area Lotus/Domino User’s Group for being the first to publish a review of my new book Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS, which you can read here. In the review, it says: “This book does an excellent job in covering a lot of ground without needing 1000+ pages to do so. Taylor takes you through the basics of HTML and XHTML, as well as how to use CSS to add formatting and presentation to your page. There’s even some coverage of JavaScript as well.”

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Nice testimonial from a reader!

May 25, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Writing and Publishing / 2 Comments

I don’t ordinarily share testimonials here, but this was a very pleasant one to receive:

I am a computer science major at Queens College of the City University
of New York and I have recently purchased you book “Creating Cool HTML 4 Web
Pages.”
I must say that I am truly impressed. You see, I have my own
company, J I Diamond International, which deals in fine quality diamonds and jewelry and I have recently posted some of my merchandise on Ebay. I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate what your book has to offer, especially
due to the fact that I am no fool when it comes to computers. Designing a
webpage has always been a dream and all of my friends have told me to use
Front Page or other Page builders. Yet starting from scratch is always difficult.

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