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"SSH Mastery" now #1 on Smashwords

I even beat out the "Fat Loss Bible." Happy Birthday to me!

And thanks to everyone who has bought and enjoyed the book. I can now say I'm a "#1 bestseller" with a straight face.

New review of SSH Mastery, and print pre-order status

There's a new review of SSH Mastery over at DragonFlyBSD Digest. I'm delighted that Justin liked the book. (Mind you, I'm appalled that he's actually reading and paying attention to the minutia I occasionally post here. But I'm delighted he liked the book.)

On the pre-order front: Austin Hook just ordered 200 copies of SSH Mastery for the OpenBSD Project. He will be listing the book for pre-order "soon." I've given them the greatest discount possible, and they'll be selling the book for list p...

first long-form review of "Vicious Redemption"

At Electric Well.

SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords

Smashwords is an ebook retailer that sells books in ten different electronic formats in one purchase. If you want a book in .pdb for your Palm Pilot, in PDF for your laptop, and epub for your Nook, that's where you go.

I just saw this in their best-seller list.

I'm at #2 site-wide, right behind the Fat Loss Bible.

The implications are obvious: I must write a book for fat techies. I'll make a fortune!

SSH Mastery Review from Peter Hansteen

Peter has already read and reviewed SSH Mastery. While a few of my readers have been kind enough to post reviews on Amazon and Smashwords (which I very deeply appreciate), Peter's is the first long review.

And here I should confess something: The very existence of SSH Mastery is Peter's fault.

Peter will be doing the tech review of Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition. He looked over the outline and said "You need more SSH in here. You need SSH here, and here. More SSH love!" So, I listened to him...

SSH Mastery Round-Up

I went to bed last night, satisfied that I had gotten SSH Mastery uploaded to the various ebook sites. I figured that I'd contact some people about doing reviews this weekend, maybe generate one or two sales. Awoke to discover ten copies sold while I slept. And I received a whole bunch of messages via Twitter, Facebook, and email. Rather than try to answer them all individually, I decided to answer here.

If you've bought the book: thank you! Please consider leaving a review on your ebook site ...

SSH Mastery available at Smashwords

To my surprise, SSH Mastery is available at Smashwords.

I don't know if this version will make it through to Kobo and iBooks, but you can buy it now. If I have to update it to get the book through the Smashwords Meatgrinder and into third-party stores, you'd get access to those later versions as well.

SSH Mastery ebook uploaded to Amazon and B&N

I just finished uploading the ebook versions of SSH Mastery to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The manuscript is en route to the print layout person.

Amazon should have the book available in 24 hours or so, Barnes & Noble in 24-72 hours. Once they're available, I'll be able to inspect the ebooks to check for really egregious errors. The files were clean when I uploaded them, but both companies perform their own manipulation on what I feed them. There's no way to be sure the books come out okay...

Consistency in Writing

For the last couple of weeks, the SSH Mastery copyeditor has said "There's something wrong with Chapter 13, but I can't figure out what it is." I told her that I had confidence in her ability to figure it out and to just do her best. (I wasn't actually confident, but telling her that would have guaranteed that she would not have found it.) The copyedits came back this weekend, along with the following table.

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New fiction collection: "Vicious Redemption"

My first collection of short fiction, Vicious Redemption: Five Horror Stories, has started to appear in online bookstores. So far it's available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Today it's ebook only. I have a few marketing things to finalize before it goes to print.

Within a couple weeks, it should appear in other online bookstores. Ebook distribution is faster than physical distribution, but still slower than you'd think. I expect it to be in Kobo & Apple by the end of the month.

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