My First Book: Articulate Storyline Essentials

I know some of you folks might be done hearing about this book, but I’m really proud of it! Last year I started writing Articulate Storyline Essentials, and it gets published this week (and is available for pre-order over on Packt Publishing’s website – go check it out!)

Packt Publishing has three tiers of books: Essentials, Learning (which Stephanie Harnett wrote and is a fantastic resource), and Mastering. Essentials is my first foray into book writing, and it’s been a long road to publishing, but a great learning experience. Now that Essentials has been taken care of, I’m in the middle of writing Mastering Articulate Storyline – YAY!

Articulate Storyline Essentials is meant to get you up and running with Articulate Storyline, from starting a new project to publishing that project to share with your audience. Unlike Learning and Mastering there are no activities; instead, there are many screenshots that will hold your hand through the development process and walk you through tasks step-by-step.

Mastering Articulate Storyline will be geared toward advanced topics, and I’m really excited to teach folks how to use some of the functions I don’t get to use as often as I’d like…most clients don’t need fancy JavaScript incorporated within their products…however, Storyline really is a powerful authoring tool and I want to teach people how they can push Storyline to its limits and learn how to do some really cool things!

Writing a book has been a huge learning experience and I have been extremely grateful for the fantastic team of editors I’ve been able to work with – they’ve done nearly all of the heavy lifting, and I could only thank them more if they had the power to make me focus my attention more. Sometimes you just need to sit down and write!

Again, I’m very proud of this book and I think it will serve a broad audience and compliment Packt Publishing’s other offerings within their suite of books focused on Articulate Storyline. Please go check it out, pre-order it, order it, tell all of your friends about it, and then tell me about it! I’d love to hear what you think!

I’ll be presenting at Learning Solutions 2015 later this month and if the stars align, I’m hoping to have some hard copies to sell at the expo bookstore. If the stars don’t align and you’re also attending, please don’t hesitate to stop me in passing – I’d love to meet you!