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Occasionally Asked Questions
I wouldn’t say it happens often, but I do sometimes get asked some questions about being a technical author. Seemed like a good place to start.
For a long time, the most common question was Did you pick the animal on the cover of the Jython book? The answer is no. The cover animals are picked by the O’Reilly production team, and the mechanism they use for assigning animals to books is somewhat mystical.