A talk I gave at the London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting on 13th August 2015

1. Conference
Driven
Publishing

2. A talk about
procrastination

3. A talk about
procrastination
* Not written on the tube journey here, honest!

4. Conference
Driven
Development

5. The theory

6. 1. Propose talk
(about something cool, but unwritten)

7. 2. Stuff happens

8. 3. Give talk
(to rapturous applause)

9. The practice

10. 1. Propose talk
(about something cool, but unwritten)

11. 2. Other (more
interesting, but
not at all useful)
stuff happens

12. 3. Give talk about
all the stuff that
should have
happened (and
might still happen
in the future)

13. Conference
Driven
Publishing

14. LPW 2014

17. 12th
Dec

18. How's it
going?

19. Not very well

20. What have
I done?

27. Process is
important

28. Good tools are
important

29. Input format
-> epub
-> mobi
-> pdf

31. Markdown

32. Pandoc

33. Pandoc
Markdown epub→

34. Kindlegen

35. Kindlegen
epub mobi→

36. Calibre

37. Calibre
epub pdf→

39. That all
happened
months ago

40. What have
I been doing
since then?

42. 2. Other (more
interesting, but
not at all useful)
stuff happens

47. I'm building a
secret web app
for my wife's
school

48. I'm preparing
for
YAPC Europe

49. I'm doing all
sorts of things
that aren't
getting this
bloody book
written

50. I'm
procrastinating

51. All is not lost

52. I still have
four months

53. Don't give up
on me yet

54. See me
at the LPW

55. However

56. Remember
that toolchain
I developed?

57. Markdown
+ Pandoc
+ Kindlegen
+ Calibre

59. That would work
for you too

60. The large
publishers have
mostly given up
on new Perl
books

61. That doesn't
mean we have to
stop writing them

62. Amazon makes it
easy to publish
and sell ebooks

63. Amazon makes it
easy to publish
and sell ebooks
* Other ebook marketplaces are available

64. Perl book
publishing as a
cottage industry

65. Write the books
you want to see

66. (Or persuade
other people to
write them)

67. Plack Handbook
http://handbook.plackperl.org/

68. There's no
minimum size
for ebooks

70. “Perl Module Reference
(two volumes),
compiled and edited
by Ellen Siever and
David Futato”

72. Show the
publishers that
people still want
Perl books

73. That's how “5o
Shades of Grey”
got started

75. Don't
procastinate

76. Write a book

77. Next update
in Granada

78. Dave Cross
@davorg
dave@perlhacks.com