Tech-writing novelists was RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

42 short stories written, 4 sold, years ago.

1.8 novels completed, but don't ask me about the remaining 0.2 till the
kids grow up.

Either way, all tech writing is fiction. :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Stegall
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 1:54 PM
> To: TECHWR-L Writing
> Subject: RE: Aging out was RE: job-hunt weirdness
> 
> I co-wrote three books, which spent several weeks on the NY 
> Times Best Seller list; my name is on the title page. They 
> had nothing to do with technology, but they got me my first 
> technical writing assignment, from a software manager who 
> loved The X-Files. I can't see that they've done much for me 
> since then, at least not in the tech writing world.
> 
> As for writing books, are there any technical writers on this list who
> *don't* have a Great American Novel in progress? All the ones 
> I've worked with over the last few years have one in the 
> works. I'm on my fourth.
> 

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