Sebastien St-Laurent's (AKA Sebby) WebLog

The holidays are here! And my and my wife are going to see my family in Quebec for a whole week. Should be a fun, cold and exciting week. Havn't seen them in almost two years. So i'm way past due!! I want to wish happy holidays to everybody out there...

If you recall my post from about one week ago, i had a chance to meet up with Minh T. Nguyen, the author of Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks . I had a chance to read his book this week and thought I would share some of my thoughts on the topic. The...

I have been considering changing my book printing plans from POD to offset. Although i do believe that POD has its place and will be even more commonplace in the future, my title needs (and deserves) the chance to be carried in brick-and-mortar book stores...

Scott Meyers, the author of several technical titles such as "Effective C++" has posted an article in which he describes his experiences about writing books and what new authors should be aware of. I love his insight and wish this would have been out...

Yesterday for lunch i had the chance to meet up with Minh T. Nguyen , author of " Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks ". He has self-published his own book and since we live in the same area, it made sense to meet up and discuss book publishing. It was...

Over the past few months, Amazon.com has changed the way their sales rank has been calculated, bringing havoc to the author community who often use this value as a gage as to how well their books are doing. Since Amazon does not disclose how the ranks...

Some of you may wonder why i have not posted anything significant to computer graphics recently. I wanted to appologize for this. With work, my INS dealings, the holidays coming and my self-publishing venture my free time has been rare recently to work...