This week I reviewed the complete book PDF, checking that previous changes were successfully made by the compositor. With luck that should be make it final.
[Read More]The book Designing Secure Software: a guide for developers took nearly two years from finding a publisher to publication. These posts tell part of my experience developing the book and writing it. Writing a book is the ideal project for riding out a pandemic.
Custom domain for this website
It’s time to point the domain name designingsecuresoftware.com
at this website. For reference, the docs I referenced for this are noted below.
Index review
The penultimate review for the book is the index, and I just hit Save on it. Creating the index was a surprisingly interesting as well as challenging part of writing the book, and I’m very glad to have tackled it myself. Having taken book indexes for granted myself, I have a new appreciation.
[Read More]Sales categories adjustment
When the book appeared in the Amazon marketplace I set up an author’s page and claimed the title. I expected some sort of verification, but they just granted me the book I asked for. This allows me to publish my bio and also see reports on sales ranking and so forth.
[Read More]Updating Hugo
Hugo has worked well for me building this static website overall. However, it remains generally somewhat mysterious and there have been some bumps.
[Read More]Publication date set
This Monday morning I started the week by discovering that a publication date is set for the book: October 19, 2021.
[Read More]Cover design
Once the title was chosen by the publisher (in consultation, of course) the cover design becomes the next topic of discussion. Cover design is up to the publisher, and I’m quite happy with that having zero experience. My input was that I personally prefer the dark background style of their security book series, while being open to anything the publisher might propose.
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