Are you a fan of developer and technical books?

Have you ever wondered what went into the writing of your favorite Python book?

This week will peek inside the world of book authorship with a panel of renowned developer-focused authors.

You'll meet Catherine Drummole, Bruce Eccle, Luciano Romalo, Dan Bader, and Brian Ockin.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 148 recorded January 26, 2018.

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm, and follow the show on Twitter via at talk python.

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Now let's meet our panel.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Talk Python.

We have Luciano Romalo, Brian Aachen, Bruce Echall, Dan Bader, Catherine Jarmul, and me of course,

Michael, your host. And we're going to do a pretty large tech book author panel, which I'm really excited to share this, all of your thoughts

with everybody. It's going to be so fun. Let's do a quick round of introductions. Some of you have

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