Read: Hitting a Rough Patchett

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By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson

Ether for Authors: Ann Patchett’s Fly­ing Leap

On this side of the pond, there may be few authors as fondly regarded as Ann Patch­ett, she of the inde­pen­dent book­store Par­nas­sus in Nashville. But when she told The Book­seller in Lon­don that authors should become more involved in the indus­try and take greater respon­si­bil­ity as part of a wider ecosys­tem, her com­ments drew some sharp push-back from authors.

Read the full arti­cle at PublishingPerspectives.com
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ETHER FOR AUTHORS | Estab­lish­ment Snipes Back | PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES
LONDON BOOK FAIR | Lon­don on the Ether 1 (page19) | THE BOOKSELLER
LONDON BOOK FAIR | Lon­don on the Ether 1 (page19) | THE BOOKSELLER
LONDON BOOK FAIR | A Mighty Metaphor PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES
LONDON BOOK FAIR | They’re Let­ting the Authors In! JANEFRIEDMAN.COM
SOCIALMEDIABook as Sym­bol, Peren­niel as Spring | WRITER UNBOXED
EXTRA ETHERA Good Day for the ( R )evo­lu­tion JANEFRIEDMAN.COM

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Test It: Are your Books’ Cov­ers Sex­ist? 

Author Mau­reen John­son takes us to a neigh­bor­hood of that ubiq­ui­tous, sex­ist cover smooch — Shirt­less Men Kiss­ing Beau­ti­ful Women.


 

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’Social’ Media: ‘Shar­ing’ our Narcissism 

Food pic­tures are pretty hard to inter­pret as any­thing but Face Down at the Me-Pond. And “In case you missed it?” #Cmonson.


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Might not an author fall into empha­siz­ing plat­form­ing over writ­ing, thus slip­ping into a “shadow career?”


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To praise someone’s work on Twit­ter, try get­ting beyond “fab,” “great,” “super,” and “must read.” Put your vocab­u­lary into it.

 


 

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A great way for a plat­form­ing author to approach Twit­ter: as a language.

 


 

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And: My col­league Roz Mor­ris, a Q2-savvy writer and author of My Mem­o­ries of a Future Life, has a weekly essay on music from a work­ing author: Under­cover Sound­track.
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There’s a pic­turesque lone­li­ness that invades the mind when enough neg­a­tive focus con­verges, as in the open­ing of Samuel Barber’s Medea’s Med­i­ta­tion and Dance of Vengeance. Caleb Burhans’ ini­tial con­cen­tra­tion on a few phrases is over­taken by a walk­ing bass under an ironic theme.


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11 thoughts on “Read: Hitting a Rough Patchett

  1. Immer­sive read­ing is exactly what we have set out to do by way of trans­me­dia sto­ry­telling. The chal­lenge of course is the cost of pro­duc­tion and plan­ning an immer­sive expe­ri­ence with a long tail. Add the fact that con­sumers don’t know to ask for an ‘enhanced book’ or a ‘trans­me­dia expe­ri­ence’ and you have an expen­sive to pro­duce prod­uct going into a mar­ket that doesn’t even know the prod­uct exists. It’s com­ing, but we need more projects from big authors (per­haps some indus­try col­lab­o­ra­tion to set the bar, let con­sumers know what an immer­sive story can be) to cre­ate the cat­e­gory, to pro­mote these immer­sive expe­ri­ences as a rea­son to buy a tablet and a rea­son to spend a few more dol­lars on an ebook. See you at DBW, always appre­ci­ate your columns.

    • Kevin, thanks for the great note. You’re get­ting at such an impor­tant point here, which is, of course, that readers/consumers — our cus­tomers, let us not for­get — have pre­cious lit­tle under­stand­ing of what can be done in the trans­me­dial space. And it’s chicken or egg: Which comes first, the hugely suc­cess­ful trans­me­dia offer­ing that shows major authors a good direc­tion? Or a major author going in this direc­tion and prompt­ing oth­ers to do the same? Should be very inter­est­ing find­ing out! Indeed, look­ing for­ward to see­ing you at DBW! Thanks again for read­ing and com­ment­ing! –p.

      • I agree that most read­ers, writ­ers, sell­ers and pub­lish­ers of tra­di­tional print books are unfa­mil­iar with immer­sive trans­me­dia sto­ry­telling, but the cat­e­gory is rapidly emerg­ing nonethe­less through the inge­nu­ity and col­lab­o­ra­tion of tra­di­tional oral sto­ry­tellers, instal­la­tion artists, movie and video game pro­duc­ers, etc. Just as this nascent cat­e­gory is ger­mi­nat­ing out­side tra­di­tional pub­lish­ing, a new mar­ket for trans­me­dia sto­ries is being born among audiences/consumers not habit­u­ally tapped by print pub­lish­ing. This is an excit­ing oppor­tu­nity for pub­lish­ing to dilate the audi­ence, not just rede­fine it.

  2. What a hol­i­day feast! So much good stuff here I don’t know where to start. Maybe I’ll just wad­dle back to the recliner and enjoy the sati­a­tion. Thanks.

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