Packt Publishing reached out to me and offered to do a book. They pretty much want me to do any book and pre-agreed already. They gave me carte blanche on the topic. (More or less, I doubt I can convince them to publish a vampire thriller set in a Silicon Valley startup.) Funny thing is that I know the editor. He worked at Apress Media when I published my first book Practical Node.js with them. I submitted to them my idea about a software engineering career book for junior developers. They li...