Do All Conference Roads Lead to Writers Now?

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By Porter Ander­son | @Porter_Anderson

Ether for Authors: Do All Conference Roads Lead to Writers Now?

[dropcap style=”flat” size=”5″]T[/dropcap]he centricity of the entrepreneurial writer in publishing circles still comes and goes as a focus these days. We’re in the early days, yes.

Amazon's Jon Fine, left, talks with author and Writer's Digest West speaker Boyd Morrison.
Amazon’s Jon Fine, left, talks with author and Writer’s Digest West speaker Boyd Morrison.

But Jon Fine’s line about starting with the author as customer and working backward makes even more sense when you see an issue play out as the author-website question spun out from Peter McCarthy and Mike Shatzkin’s well-received DBW Marketing show.

Here it is, the author emphasis. And conferences may, better than most destinations, show us just how fast we can zip down so many roads and find ourselves again at the creative heart of the matter: authors.

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