At last... contract signed!

Well, already about three months ago, in fact. I'm signed up with the rather impressive No Starch Press, and all going well, my book will land in the shops in the first half of 2010.

Most of the hard work has already been done (the content is generally finished, though there'll probably still be updates, depending on what happens in the Linux kernel-userspace API in the next 6 months). And by now we're well into production, with me and NSP exchanging a lot of mails each week as we copyedit chapters. (I didn't think this phase would be so much work, but then I could say that about every part of working on the book so far...)

Me, contract in hand, with Bill Pollock, founder of No Starch Press, outside the No Starch Press offices on a cold, sunny San Francisco day.