And So The Dream Dies
As some of you know, I’ve been working on a NoSQL book for the last few months. It’s been coming along pretty well — about 8 chapters written or so — and I have been in conversations with two different publishers, one of which was almost at the signing phase about a month ago or so.
However, the project has come to an unfortunate end. The main focus of my work — namely, how to apply NoSQL to business problems for people who are accustomed to thinking of RDBMS only — has already been published by a few other people. I don’t begrudge these other folk; they wrote some good articles. I also could prove I thought of the idea before the respective articles on the web were published, but it doesn’t matter. Even a whiff of plagiarism is enough to push a publisher away. I could always self-publish, I suppose, but that’s not really attractive to me.
So, what am I going to do with the months of work I’ve already put into this? Well, I’m going to start publishing another series of articles on this site about NoSQL. The work’s already done; I’ll link to the other articles where appropriate and share what I’ve learned with everyone. Who knows; perhaps there’s enough interest either in what I say or in how I say it to justify a book even yet.
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