Frontmatter: The Leanpub Author Stories Podcast

Tonya Mork is the author of Refactoring Tweaks: 7+ Easy Wins to Make Your Code Better and Increase Your Profits. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Tonya about her career, overcoming difficult and extraordinary circumstances in work and life, the importance of refactoring, and her book.

Victor Savkin is the author of the Leanpub book Angular 2 Router: The Complete Authoritative Reference. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Victor about his career, Angular, and his book.

Peter Yaworski is the author of the Leanpub book Web Hacking 101: How to Make Money Hacking Ethically. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Peter about his career, how he got into hacking, and his book.

Patrick Applegate is a co-author of the Leanpub book Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences: A Lab Manual with Exercises in R. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Patrick about his career, climate science, and his book.

Don Jones is an expert on Microsoft's business technology platform and is the author of the Leanpub book The DSC Book: Second Edition. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Don about his career and his book.

Ben Frain is the author of the Leanpub book Enduring CSS: Architect and maintain large-scale CSS codebases. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ben about his unique career path, his current work, and his book.

Daniel Dib and Russ White are the authors of the Leanpub book Unintended Features: Thoughts on thinking and life as a network engineer. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Daniel and Russ about their careers, their book, and their experience self-publishing on Leanpub.

Janelle Klein is the Austin-based author of Idea Flow: How to Measure the PAIN in Software Development. She is the CTO of the recruitment consultancy New Iron and founder of Open Mastery, a network for peer mentorship based on data-driven mastery of software development. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Janelle about her career, the ideas and experiences that are the inspiration for Idea Flow, the concept of Idea Flow itself and how it can transform the relationship between developers and management to profoundly improve productivity and quality, and at the very end, Janelle also talks about her experience self-publishing on Leanpub.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Nicholas Russo, a former Marine Corps Comm officer and current network professional who has earned CCIE certifications in both Routing and Switching and Service Provider. In the interview, Nick talks about his duties as a Comm officer on deployment in wartime, about his remarkable book (which is nearly 3,000 pages long), and what it's like self-publishing a book worth hundreds of dollars on Leanpub. Please note that the views and opinions expressed by Nick are his own, and do not represent the views of his employer, Cisco.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Amir Rajan, an indie game developer best known for making the bestselling iOS app for the popular text-based game A Dark Room. Amir talks about his career and the ups and downs of his fascinating experience with a big hit on the App Store, and also about his experience self-publishing his book on Leanpub.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founders Peter Armstrong and Len Epp chat with Nick Sutterer, a Sydney-based software developer and popular conference speaker who has published a book on Leanpub called Trailblazer: A New Architecture For Rails. Nick talks about his career, what Trailblazer is and how it came about, and about self-publishing his book on Leanpub.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Antonio Leiva, author of the Leanpub books Kotlin for Android Developers and 10 consejos para convertirte en un desarrollador experto. Antonio talks about his career, what the scene is like for software developers in Spain, and what it's like to self-publish an in-progress book.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Alan Richardson, author of the Leanpub books Dear Evil Tester and Java For Testers. Alan talks about the importance of software testing, some good and some bad approaches different organizations take to testing, and what it means to treat testing as a necessary evil.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with David Greenlees, author of the Leanpub book Software Testing as a Martial Art. David talks about how he got into software testing, his martial arts training, and the connections he draws between software testing and martial arts in his book.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Phil Sturgeon, author of the Leanpub bestseller Build APIs You Won't Hate. In a wide-ranging discussion, Phil talks about his career, his various projects, and his experience writing and selling a bestselling book.

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Claire Bowern, Vice President of the Endangered Language Fund and Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. Claire’s fascinating research includes working with the speakers of a number of languages from Northern Australia. Claire talks about her career, her work, and the two books she has published on Leanpub, Learner’s Guide to Bardi and Learners Guide to Yan-nhagu.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp chats with Emmanuel Nataf, co-founder of Reedsy, a marketplace for high-quality publishing services that helps authors find professional editors, designers and marketers. We talk about how how Reedsy got started and about their vision for the future of publishing.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Jeff Geerling, a full-stack developer, author and blogger. We talk about how Jeff got into programming, his bestselling Leanpub book Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans, and how he made over $25,000 in sales before his book was finished.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Obie Fernandez, an author, consultant, and current Senior Vice President of Engineering at 2U. We talk about Obie's career and his latest book, Serverless: Patterns of Modern Application Design Using Microservices.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Patrick Kua, a technical leader and agile coach for ThoughtWorks, and the author of two Leanpub books, The Retrospective Handbook and Talking with Tech Leads. Patrick is also a blogger and frequent conference speaker. We talk about how Patrick began his career, his thoughts about the importance of retrospectives, and the various challenges tech leads meet in the course of their work.