From Medium Blogger to Book Author — You Can Publish a Book Like Me!

Share my experience of three years of blogging, which led to a book. Also, introduce the general process of publishing a book with a reputable publisher.

Yong Cui
12 min readFeb 6, 2023

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One thing that all of us share in our childhood is reading books in various genres, such as history, mystery, fiction, and science. Some of us, maybe a small portion at a certain point like teenage, may have wondered how it feels to have your name on a book as the author — it must be thrilling!

I had the same thought when I was growing up. Unfortunately, I wasn’t good at writing and didn’t either have great ideas to write about. So, I stopped dreaming to become an author of any book — I knew that publishing a book had nothing to do with me. Particularly, when I spent significant time writing code, authoring seemed to become an even further possibility, as I felt that there was no way you could convert code to a book.

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Yong Cui

Work at the nexus of biomedicine, data science & mobile dev. Author of Python How-to by Manning (https://www.manning.com/books/python-how-to).