Tushar Gupta is a Senior Product Manager at Packt. He produces books in the Machine Learning and AI portfolio. He's been in tech publishing for close to 8 years. And has produced over 300 books to date. In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:- How did you get into the world of book publishing?- How do you identify topics for books?- What trends are you seeing in ML books?- What does great writing look like to you?- What is the learning journey of a reader?- How to think about your book's target audience?- How do you work with authors?- What's the step by step process of writing a book?- What advice do you have for people who want to write their first book?- What areas of ML are gaining traction in 2022?- What type of book tends to sell more? A text book, a book containing recipes, or a book that does a deep dive?- What do book readers want?- What's the role of communities in book publishing?