Updated, September 13: The winner of our August book: Nate Burgos (@designfeast) for sending support Steve Portigal's way. Finish that book, Steve; thanks Nate!

Imagine trying to have a long, detailed conversation with a stranger that you'll never meet. The stranger may be far away from you—in time as well as in distance. Worse, you have to squeeze your conversation into the tiny open spaces you have between your professional and personal obligations.

Now you know why writing a book is so hard, even for a successful, experienced author like Sunni Brown:

As of this moment, there are 17 authors working on new Rosenfeld Media books (we'll announce one more very soon). All of our authors could use some encouragement, and you can help. Here's how:

Choose one of our books-in-progress. Then tweet why you're looking forward to their book. If you can, include the author's twitter ID (here's a list). And include the hash tag #RMgo. Here are two examples:

Getting nervous about lawsuits: really need that web accessibility book from @whitneyq & @gradualclearing. #RMgo (that's 112 characters)

Loved @ugleah's UX team of one workshop; could really use the book! #RMgo (73 characters)

Do it as many times as you like. Each tweet will serve as your entry into a monthly free book-giveaway. We'll announce winners on the @rosenfeldmedia Twitter feed and in our newsletter, the Rosenfeld Review. It's that simple.

Thanks for your help!

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Though we're known as a book publisher, we like to think of ourselves as being in the business of providing UX expertise. Along those lines, we're expanding our UX workshop tour this fall.

The tour features these great Rosenfeld Media authors: Indi Young will present on Mental Models in DC, Steve Portigal on Interviewing Users in Seattle, and Anders Ramsay on Designing with Agile in London (where registration doesn't go live until August 3).

And old standbys Steve Krug and Lou Rosenfeld will visit all three cities, and cover Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing and Adaptable Information Architecture respectively.

The UX workshop market is getting ever more crowded, but people tell us that ours are as intimate, engaging, and practical as they get. We hope you'll agree. And, given the competition, we've lowered our prices.

So, great workshops and a great deal. Will we see you there?

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This week's Wacky Wednesday deal: half off Luke Wroblewski's classic book, Web Form Design, from 12:01am until midnight, GMT-5. We'll tweet out the discount code from the @rosenfeldmedia Twitter account a few times during the day. Enjoy!

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It's summer, northern hemisphere style. And that means it's time to bring back our great summer Wednesday deals: 50% off one of our titles each Wednesday from now until September.

Here's how it works:

• Follow @rosenfeldmedia on Twitter.


• Each Wednesday we'll tweet a 50% off discount code for a different book.


• Please redeem it at our site's store (it won't work at Amazon, O'Reilly, or any of our other partners' stores).


• It'll be good for one day only, from 12:00am until 11:59pm GMT-5.


• If you really, really, really must share it with everyone you know, we won't object. Too much.

The sale starts tomorrow with Indi Young's classic (in its third printing!), Mental Models!

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We're pleased to announce that Search Analytics for Your Site, Lou Rosenfeld's new book, is now available via our site, Amazon, and O'Reilly.

Continue reading "now on sale: Search Analytics for Your Site" »

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