Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson

Quite often on this site and in social media, I men­tion or rec­om­mend books — or excerpt books by per­mis­sion — and pro­vide a link to Ama­zon. These are affil­i­ate links, and I am an Ama­zon Affil­i­ate. So are oth­ers whose writ­ings may appear from time to time at this web­site. This means we might be paid a com­mis­sion if you buy what we rec­om­mend from Ama­zon. (This does not increase the price you pay.)

We are required by law to tell you this.

I also hope you agree this is an excel­lent and non-intrusive method to help cover the costs for host­ing this site and pro­vid­ing use­ful infor­ma­tion and report­ing. If you’re espe­cially pleased with con­tent you find here, then you can proac­tively click here to shop at Ama­zon, and let Ama­zon pay me a com­mis­sion on your pur­chases. Again, this is at no cost to you, and is an easy way to help sup­port the work that goes into this site.

In addi­tion, I’m glad to announce that I have an affil­i­ate part­ner­ship with Res­cue­Time, a ser­vice that helps writ­ers and oth­ers under­stand and mea­sure their time and activ­i­ties online — and, most impor­tantly, pro­tect their writ­ing time from dis­trac­tions. I highly rec­om­mend RescueTime’s spe­cial func­tion­al­ity Focus­Time as the best assist I’ve found yet for guard­ing your most impor­tant work time. Going to Res­cue­Time via my links here as well as from tweets and other social-media mes­sages from me about the ser­vice will pro­vide you with free test­ing and full expla­na­tions of the ser­vice and, if you decide to use the pre­mium ser­vice (a free ver­sion is avail­able), then I get a small commission.

In addi­tion, you may see me offer dis­count reg­is­tra­tion codes to var­i­ous pub­lish­ing con­fer­ence events, both here on my site and in social media mes­sages. Such codes (“PORTER,” “AFFILIATEPA” and oth­ers) are revenue-sharing codes, mean­ing that for each reg­is­tra­tion using such a dis­count code, the con­fer­ence in ques­tion pays me a small amount as a kind of refer­ral reward. I may use these codes here at PorterAnderson.com and also abroad on the web in such social media loca­tions as Twit­ter, Face­book, Google+ and more.

If you have any ques­tions about affil­i­ate links on this site, please don’t hesi­ti­ate to con­tact me.

(Spe­cial thanks to Jane Fried­man for the boil­er­plate lan­guage here.)

About Porter Ander­son

Porter Ander­son, BA, MA, MFA, is a Fel­low with the National Crit­ics Insti­tute and has done spe­cial read­ings in the psy­chol­ogy of the arts at the Uni­ver­sity of Bath, UK. As a jour­nal­ist, he has worked with three net­works of CNN (CNN USA, CNN Inter­na­tional, CNN.com) and was on the lead devel­op­ment team for CNN.com Live. He also has worked on The Vil­lage Voice, Dal­las Times Her­ald, D Mag­a­zine, Sara­sota Herald-Tribune and other out­lets. He writes the weekly (Thurs­days) WRITING ON THE ETHER col­umn at JaneFriedman.com and (Mon­days) ETHER FOR AUTHORS col­umn at PublishingPerspectives.com. Ander­son also is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to WriterUnboxed.com and to Dig­i­tal Book World’s (DigiBookWorld.com) Expert Pub­lish­ing Blog. He has been posted by the United Nations to Rome (P-5, laissez-passer) for the World Food Pro­gramme, and served as Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer to INDEX: Design to Improve Life in Copen­hagen. He is based in Tampa and his pri­mary medium is Twit­ter. Fol­low him @Porter_Anderson

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