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- Subject: Computer Book Authors Wanted
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 22:21:15 GMT
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- Bill Adler, Jr.
- Adler & Robin Books, Inc.
- 3409 29th Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20008
- 202-363-7410
- adlerbks@clark.net
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adlerbooks
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- COMPUTER BOOK AUTHORS WANTED
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- We are literary agents. Over the past 30 years we and our affiliate
- agency in New York City have been responsible for literally hundreds
- of books, many of them national bestsellers. We also represent a
- wide range of computer books.
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- We are actively looking for computer books on these topics:
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- --Virtual LANs (configuring, etc.)
- --Remote LAN Access (providing, securing, etc.)
- --3-D Web Worlds (e.g., VRML)
- --Intranet Interfaces
- --IETF Electronic Commerce Security Protocols
- --Network Optimization (ATM?)
- --Client/Server Toolkit (w/ shareware/freeware CD-ROM)
- --Intranetting Intranets (as an alternative to Groupware)
- --Implementing WANs
- --Moving to Client/Server Systems
- --Multimedia Client/Server Networks
- --Web Servers
- --Advanced Java (Next generation titles)
- --Interent-3D Environments
- --Managing and Implementing Mobile Computing, A Network Manager's
- Guide
- --Advanced programming titles.
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- We would be very interested in seeing a proposal on any of these
- subjects.
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- By way of background about our literary agency, we have represented
- Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Dick Clark, Helen Hayes, Ronald Reagan,
- Nancy Reagan, Senator Gary Hart, Senator William Cohen, Jeff Smith
- (The Frugal Gourmet), Mr. Food, Larry King, Mickey Mantle, Nolan
- Ryan, PelĪ, Phil Donahue, Howard Cosell, Robert MacNeil, Sally Jesse
- Raphael, Steve Allen, Tom Shales, Tom Seaver, Willard Scott and
- others.
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- Some of the computer books we have represented include: Developing
- Applications with Clarion for Windows, The Computer Support
- Directory, Kidnet: The Kids' Guide to Cyberspace, Dr. Tom Linden's
- Guide to On Line Medicine, The Complete Guide To The World Wide Web
- on Prodigy, LotusNotes Certification Study Guide, The McGraw Hill
- Internet Training Manual, The McGraw-Hill Web Training Guide,
- Enhancing Your Own Netscape Web Pages, Managing and Tuning
- Distributed Databases, Internet Programming with Java, The Common
- Sense Guide to Computer Security, and others.
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- We have been responsible for negotiating contracts that are highly
- favorable to our clients, especially from computer book publishers.
- (Higher advances, better subsidiary rights, a more favorable
- revisions clause, for example.)
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- We would like to hear from you about any computer book ideas that you
- have, in addition to the book topics I mentioned above. If you would
- like, I can email you a short guide to writing computer book
- proposals.
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- Sincererly,
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- Bill Adler, Jr.
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