Authors in the Spotlight: How To Turn Your Readings Into Book Sales with Porter Anderson Join me in this special three-hour intensive Boot Camp session at Writer’s Digest Conference East (#WDCE) at 12:30pET on Friday, April 5. We’ll look at public presentation for the entrepreneurial author in an interactive, up-on-your-feet workshop format: come with two… Read More
What We Leave Behind
From February 5, 2013 An excerpt from my series of Ether for Authors columns on publishing at Publishing Perspectives, appearing Tuesdays. Table of Contents Tick-TOC: Optimism Ahead What We Leave Behind: ‘There Is No Midlist’ But More Optimism: An International Startup Showcase Tick-TOC: One Week To Go It would be enough to know simply that… Read More
WRITING ON THE ETHER: Three Agents, Changing
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson From December 6, 2012 Part of my series of columns on publishing, Writing on the Ether, appearing Thursdays at the invitation of Jane Friedman at JaneFriedman.com Three Agents, Changing In time, there’s going to be so much self-publishing that you’ll have to invent publishing. Never mind that David Mitchell,… Read More
Ether for Authors – 11 December
Table of Contents Flexibility: Listening to the Publishers’ Convo Tech-ing Up: ‘Transformative, Exciting, Alarming’ Authors on Publishers: Who’s Sorry Now? Your Turn: Surveying Discoverability Except Some Countries: Amazon’s International Competition Craft: Storyboarding as a Sales Tool Craft: Making the Scene Craft: Take Aim at Foot and… Conferences To Consider (And Tell Me Yours) Books: Reading… Read More
ETHER FOR AUTHORS: Sans Frontieres
By Porter Anderson / @Porter_Anderson Table of Contents Welcome to Ether for Authors: Worldwide Gas A Scamp on Skype: Penn Interviews Wendig ‘Piracy’: Poland’s Circulation of Culture Writing Digital: Two From Janestown Author Collectives: The Reader’s Second Rogue Selling It: How To Piss Off Everybody New Conferences: Authors Launch & TOC Authors Books: Reading on… Read More