If you're looking for clojurists... Note that Carin's looking for new opportunities right now. She's also the author of http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034292.do I worked with her in a past life, she's great to work with, I'd recommend her for any team.
seems like a nice book, would love to hear some reviews from the early release version
I really don't see the advantage of trying to sell clojure and emacs as a package, it just alienates a lot of potential newcomers. Sadly almost every Clojure tutorial I've seen so far does this. Most tutorials for other programming languages simply go with a text editor of your choice + a console repl.
Well, the series is titled "How I start" after all. It's not "How you might want to get your feet wet" -- it's "How I, that actually have used X in anger, get stuff done". That doesn't mean your point isn't valid, but I think showing off how the author actually works makes sense in this context.