It’s been a rotten couple of months. For reasons that I can’t talk about publicly, the printing of Thinking in C# has been cancelled. I’d love to just rip the parts of the book that are based on Thinking in Java out, throw them in the trash, and publish the 2/3 of the book that I wrote from scratch, but I don’t have the clear legal right to do so and my former co-author is the one who can afford lawyers. I’d love to produce training information on C# and .NET (after all, one Microsoft reviewer said that Thinking in C# was “the definitive text” on certain subjects), but 18 months after starting Thinking in C# I’m flat broke.
The writing of Thinking in C# was one of the greatest experiences of my life. After 14 years of writing for magazines, it was amazing to be able to tackle broad issues, with numerous examples. The publishing of Thinking in C#, though, was probably the worst experience of my professional life…<long rant scribbled because, like I said, I can’t really talk about it>…
Stay tuned to http://www.ThinkingIn.NET/ — I’ll be making some significant changes to the Website in the coming days.
I bought the $5 non-printable PDF several months ago and considered it an amazing bargain at the time. I was looking forward to purchasing the book in print for reference, but it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Luckily you can snag the book in progress that may never be finished here.
Sounds like some nasty stuff must have happened. I’m sorry that a good book was one of the casualties.