RE: Question about "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing"

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

I think there MIGHT be one or two "For Dummies" books around 
the house, and those were bought grudgingly. 

But there's never been a "Complete Idiot's..." book of any 
sort, and never will.  I do see why people are put off. 

The "For Dummies" thing was amusing and relatively gentle, 
on the order of "nerds" and I guess "geeks", but the series 
title for "Complete Idiots" seemed both NOT endearing and 
... well... a little grasping and desperate. 

People can go along with a congenially ribbing "dummy" 
moniker, but when it comes to calling themselves a "complete 
idiot" about something, that's where the line is drawn. They 
can call themselves that, but they won't stand for other 
people calling them that. 

With that said, I wouldn't "review" or rate a book or 
any other product without reading it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krista Van Laan
> 
> I don't keep up with TECHWR-L so much anymore, so I was surprised and
> pleased to see my name. (Thanks, Craig!) We're actually working on an
> update for this book which I hope to have out early in 2012. The easily
> offended will be happy to learn that the book will have a new title
> without the word "Idiot" in it, since the rights reverted to the
> authors. That was so depressing on amazon.com to see people giving it
> zero stars when they admitted they hadn't read it, just because they
> didn't like the title for the series.
> 
> Krista Van Laan
> 


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