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.

Index review

 Posted on August 18, 2021  |  Loren Kohnfelder

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. [Read More]
publishing 

Sales categories adjustment

 Posted on July 15, 2021  |  Loren Kohnfelder

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. [Read More]
publishing 

Updating Hugo

 Posted on July 15, 2021  |  Loren Kohnfelder

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]
website 

Cover design

 Posted on May 20, 2021  |  Loren Kohnfelder

Once the title was chosen by the publisher (in consultation, of course) the cover design becomes the next topic of discussion. [Read More]
publishing 

Copy edit of a chapter

 Posted on April 3, 2021  |  Loren Kohnfelder

Copy edit is the last chance to make significant changes to the text. Most chapters involve plenty of sentence rewriting and a few moves of a paragraph, but much of the delta is punctuation and word choice. [Read More]
publishing