Now this is quite exciting.

For me at least where this is a first (and dare I suspect last?).

You may recall me blathering on about writing a book chapter last July (28th)
http://doosouth.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
(does Blogger really not let me have a URL to just that post?)

I mentioned we got one free copy of the book between us but my colleague, quite fairly as the lead author, wants to keep it. So I thought I'd spend pretty much all the money I'm being paid on a second copy of the book.

Amazon have just delivered it and I can hold it in my hands for the first time. Very weird - very satisfying. Not only is there our chapter but there are two short paragraphs on 'future of ebooks' and a 'top tip' that appear later in the book. We're in a section that contains two other chapters and of course our chapter is 'introduced' with the others. But we also get a mention in the chapter before ours. (Fittingly, from the folk whose presentation I went to and who started the ball rolling for us).

I have actually read a chapter already and intend to read more. It's not

just going on my brag shelf! But what's a real relief is that my effort at looking ten years into the future isn't out of place with the other snippets. Because we had to submit that in a vacuum I had no idea if it would hold up to other contributions. But I think it works well. Ten years is a long time in the ebook world though, so I'm not expecting to be very accurate timewise!