I got word in late November that linux Journal had accepted two more proposals for articles.  The last acceptance (in mid November) was for an article to be published in issue 190 (Desktop) which I wrote and submitted without a proposal.  The next two are for issues 191 (Systems Administrations) and 192 (Software development) and were submitted by proposal first.

The article for issue 191 is focused on automating remote backups.  I finished and submitted the article last night.  Since much of my previous writing has been tutorial based and required many screenshots I had to ask if they needed more images in this article.  There is plenty of code in it, but not many images.  However, for this article I don't think it really will benefit much from screenshots of terminal windows.  I'll wait to see what they need from me.

The article for issue 192 is in development and will be about programming with an embedded web server.  This is based on a project I'm doing at CEI related to cloud computing though the article is about an open source tool we utilize within that project.

So that's three issues in a row for me at lj.  Glad to be working with them again.  I have to get a proposal for issue 193 ready now.  I have ideas.  Now I just need to put keyboard to email and get it out the door.

Interestingly, that's two full years of non-stop articles for me in various magazines.  In fact, I think I've only had about 12 months off of writing in the past 10 years.  Mixed with my day job of software development and writing proposals for government projects, my eyeballs are about ready to fall out of their sockets.