I probably should be, but there are several issues involved. One is that it takes a long time to get a book published, unless one self-publishes, and the field is changing rapidly. Another is that if one wants to put together a really good book, one has to devote a lot of time to it, and this would take away from my time writing on the web.

I have thought about having someone put together a compilation of some of my web posts and publish it. I could even write a few more posts to fill in the blanks.

One minor issue is that if one wants to keep publishing costs reasonable, one needs to only use black and white illustrations. On the web, color works better. With this particular post, I tried to make illustrations that would print out reasonably well in black and white. If one wants a book that would meet the standards of most "regular" publishers, all of the graphs would have to be reset in a manner that would make them look sort of OK in black and white.

A person can get to my Oil Drum posts on this link:
http://www.theoildrum.com/user/Gail+the+Actuary/stories

In November 2007, I put together a PDF of some of my posts. It is about 110 pages long. In some ways, it is a substitute for a book. It can be found here:

http://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/introduction-to-peak-o...

Quite a few of my earlier posts can also be found, in written out form, on that site. I have not been adding ones recently, because the Word Press site and The Oil Drum use different forms of HTML, and making the translation takes time.