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On the Ether: Faster, Authors, Faster!

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By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson
Writ­ing on the Ether: Faster, Authors, Faster! 

The busi­ness exi­gen­cies are sim­ply there: more books, more sales. None of us can argue with that. But sprung from the restraints of Old Publishing’s bovine pace, is the mad dash into burnout all we have to offer entre­pre­neur­ial authors?

Read the full arti­cle at JaneFriedman.com

Friend Grief and AIDSFriend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends by Vic­to­ria Noe

It’s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The sec­ond of a series on griev­ing the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends, revis­its a time when peo­ple with AIDS were also tar­gets of big­otry and dis­crim­i­na­tion. In sto­ries about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red rib­bons and more, you’ll learn why friends made all the dif­fer­ence: not just care­giv­ing or memo­ri­al­iz­ing, but chang­ing the way soci­ety con­fronts the med­ical estab­lish­ment and gov­ern­ment to demand action.

Click here to visit Ama­zon and down­load a sample.

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

Read: Are Publishing Firefights Hurting the Mission?

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By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson
Ether for Authors: ‘Fire­fight­ing at Each Stage’

Remem­ber the mis­sion? Lit­er­a­ture. For whom? Read­ers. To make? A living.

All of us—yes, all of us, nobody gets away—need to be more care­ful of how we say things.

Not just because we’re writ­ers, for God’s sake, and don’t you think we should know how to speak accu­rately? But also because we set off fire­fights each time we torch the strung-out, exhausted Kin­dling of the indus­try! the indus­try! with mis-phrased, over-heated, and usu­ally ill-researched accusations.

Read the full arti­cle at PublishingPerspectives.com

Friend Grief and AIDSFriend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends by Vic­to­ria Noe

It’s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The sec­ond of a series on griev­ing the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends, revis­its a time when peo­ple with AIDS were also tar­gets of big­otry and dis­crim­i­na­tion. In sto­ries about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red rib­bons and more, you’ll learn why friends made all the dif­fer­ence: not just care­giv­ing or memo­ri­al­iz­ing, but chang­ing the way soci­ety con­fronts the med­ical estab­lish­ment and gov­ern­ment to demand action.

Click here to visit Ama­zon and down­load a sample.

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

FutureBook: Orna Ross, the Pudding Would Like a Word

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Orna Ross, left, founding director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and, right, the Pudding.

Orna Ross, left, direc­tor of the Alliance of Inde­pen­dent Authors. The Pud­ding, right.

By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson
The Future­Book: Orna Ross, the Pud­ding Would Like a Word

At The FutureBook:

What’s impor­tant is for all of us to remem­ber that our words, our expres­sions of opin­ion, can be hurt­ful, wrong, unfair, dam­ag­ing. It’s incum­bent upon us to be careful.

A tip from the long-lost arts of jour­nal­ism: None of us knows what another is think­ing, feel­ing, believ­ing, or wish­ing. A good jour­nal­ist never writes, “The police believe the Pud­ding was one egg short of a true York­shire.” Instead, he writes, “The police say they believe the eggs were not fresh but stale.”

Had Ross taken a moment to write, “Porter says he wishes this self-publishing lark would just stop,” she might have real­ized that she’d never heard the Pud­ding say any such thing.

Plus: Excel­lent com­men­tary from Orna Ross

Read the full arti­cle at TheFutureBook.com

Friend Grief and AIDSFriend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends by Vic­to­ria Noe

It’s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The sec­ond of a series on griev­ing the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends, revis­its a time when peo­ple with AIDS were also tar­gets of big­otry and dis­crim­i­na­tion. In sto­ries about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red rib­bons and more, you’ll learn why friends made all the dif­fer­ence: not just care­giv­ing or memo­ri­al­iz­ing, but chang­ing the way soci­ety con­fronts the med­ical estab­lish­ment and gov­ern­ment to demand action.

Click here to visit Ama­zon and down­load a sample.

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

When Amazon Sat Down With the Lambs

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By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson
Writ­ing on the Ether: An Ama­zon Roundtable

Amazon’s Cre­ate­Space and Kin­dle Direct Pub­lish­ing (KDP) did some­thing I saw no other pub­lish­ing outfit(s) doing at Book­Expo Amer­ica: They hosted a pri­vate round­table of lead­ing self-publishing authors and some of us who cover publishing—not for the pur­pose of pro­mot­ing what they do, but to get everyone’s input on how things look.

The result­ing ses­sion was a mar­velous, one-hour, seri­ous but thor­oughly pleas­ant kind of party of shared insights and repar­tee. I couldn’t have liked it more.

Read the full arti­cle at JaneFriedman.com

Friend Grief and AIDSFriend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends by Vic­to­ria Noe

It’s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The sec­ond of a series on griev­ing the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends, revis­its a time when peo­ple with AIDS were also tar­gets of big­otry and dis­crim­i­na­tion. In sto­ries about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red rib­bons and more, you’ll learn why friends made all the dif­fer­ence: not just care­giv­ing or memo­ri­al­iz­ing, but chang­ing the way soci­ety con­fronts the med­ical estab­lish­ment and gov­ern­ment to demand action.

Click here to visit Ama­zon and down­load a sample.

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

How London Beat BEA’s Pants Off

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By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson
Ether for Authors: How Lon­don Book Fair Beat BEA’s Pants Off

What became clearer than ever this year is that Book­Expo Amer­ica posi­tions authors pri­mar­ily as crea­tures of the publishers.

I’d like to see #BEA13 be the last hash­tag we assign to such a ret­ro­grade concept.

It’s past time to cre­ate the same AuthorLounge-style cen­tral focus at New York’s BEA that I saw in rol­lick­ing sway when Lon­don Book Fair pro­vided it.

Read the full arti­cle at PublishingPerspectives.com

Friend Grief and AIDSFriend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends by Vic­to­ria Noe

It’s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The sec­ond of a series on griev­ing the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Bury­ing Our Friends, revis­its a time when peo­ple with AIDS were also tar­gets of big­otry and dis­crim­i­na­tion. In sto­ries about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red rib­bons and more, you’ll learn why friends made all the dif­fer­ence: not just care­giv­ing or memo­ri­al­iz­ing, but chang­ing the way soci­ety con­fronts the med­ical estab­lish­ment and gov­ern­ment to demand action.

Click here to visit Ama­zon and down­load a sample.

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