- Journalistic Live Coverage of Events
- Speaking and Conference Presentations
- Conference Programming and Event Planning
- Editorial Articles and Analysis
Please be in touch for rates and terms on all services using the contact form.
Live Coverage of Events
Porter Anderson Media provides event coverage that can be customized to your organization’s needs and activities, whether commercial or nonprofit. Standard elements include such components as:
- Live Twitter coverage from the event
- Pre-event social-media visibility
- Social-media offers of discounts and special rates for registrants
- Pre-event live-chat events on Twitter
Rates include transportation to and from the event, lodging, other travel expenses, and stipends.
Representative conferences using this service from Porter Anderson Media:
- The FutureBook (London/The Bookseller)
- Publishing for Digital Minds (London Book Fair)
- What Works? Education Conference (London Book Fair)
- London Author Fair (Authoright)
- Digital Book World (FW Media, New York City)
- IDPF Digital Book (BookExpo America BEA)
- StoryDrive (Frankfurt Book Fair)
- PaidContent (GigaOM, New York City)
- The Muse and the Marketplace (Grub Street, Boston)
- PubSmart (Charleston)
- Writer’s Digest Conference East (FW Media, New York City)
- Writer’s Digest Conference West (FW Media Los Angeles)
- Books in Browsers (Frankfurt Book Fair, San Francisco)
- Discoverability and Marketing Conference (FW Media, New York City)
- Marketing + Publishing Services Conference & Expo (FW Media, New York City)
- Story World (FW Media, Los Angeles)
- Publishers Launch (New York City)
- Tools of Change (O’Reilly Media, New York City)
- Author (R)evolution Day (Tools of Change, New York City)
- Klopotek Publishers’ Forum (Berlin)
- The Next Chapter (Publit, Stockholm)
- The FutureBook Hack (London/The Bookseller)
- PubSenseSummit (Charleston)
- uPublishU (New York, BEA)
- Novelists Inc. (St. Pete Beach)
- Writer Unboxed Un-Conference (Salem, Massachusetts)
- Matera Writing Conference (Italy)
- Bookrepublic’s IfBookThen (Milan)
Event Presentation, Speaking Engagements
Availabilities run from moderation of panels on a conference program to full presentations, keynote addresses, lectures.
Representative conferences using presentations from Porter Anderson Media:
- Frankfurt Book Fair’s CONTEC
- StoryDrive Asia, Singapore
- Frankfurt Book Fair Business Club, Publishing Perspectives Talks
- Global Trends in Publishing and Rights (Jakarta)
- Author (R)evolution Day (Tools of Change, New York City)
- Matera Writing Conference (Italy)
- Bookrepublic’s IfBookThen (Milan)
- The FutureBook (London/The Bookseller)
- The Muse and the Marketplace (Grub Street, Boston)
- PubSmart (Charleston)
- Writer’s Digest Conference East (FW Media, New York City)
- Writer’s Digest Conference West (FW Media Los Angeles)
- London Author Fair (Authoright)
- IDPF Digital Book (New York, BEA)
- uPublishU (New York, BEA)
- Novelists Inc. (St. Pete Beach)
- Writer Unboxed Un-Conference (Salem, Massachusetts)
- Self-Publishing Summit (London / Legend Books)
- PubSenseSummit (Charleston)
Course work is also available and can take the form of a lecture or a much more interactive setting in which participants share their own work and get feedback
Representative settings using this type of service from Porter Anderson Media:
- A course in Public Appearance and Readings for Authors, introduced as a three-hour “Boot Camp” session by Writer’s Digest Conferences East and West
- A course in publishing journalism for the staff of The Bookseller in London
- A lecture on the digital disruption of publishing for Bath Spa University at Corsham Court, the UK
- One-on-one guidance on marketing to Matera Writing Conference participants
- A session for authors on how to determine which criticism to heed for Writer Unboxed’s Un-Conference
- One-on-one mentoring on the topic of social media presence for authors through Google Helpouts online
- Master Classes for Frankfurt Book Fair’s Business Club
Special sessions available:
(1) The town hall format conference session. This is a themed session using as many as 10 panelists and set in the round, the audience on three sides, panelists on the fourth. The moderator is moving throughout the session (90 minutes to two hours) between panelists and audience members.
Representative conferences using this type of session from Porter Anderson Media:
- Frankfurt Book Fair at CONTEC, a Town Hall on the impact of self-publishing on the traditional industry
- The Muse and the Marketplace conference in Boston, a Town Hall on the scenario facing writers of literary fiction in a digital environment far less welcoming to them than it is to genre writers
(2) The staged interview conference session. This is a dialog between the journalist and a newsmaker held live before the audience and designed to introduce the newsmaker’s key talking points in a format that doesn’t require the newsmaker to give a speech.
Representative conferences using this type of session from Porter Anderson Media:
- StoryDrive Asia, Singapore
- Frankfurt Book Fair Business Club
- Klopotek Publishers Forum (Berlin)
- PubSmart (Charleston)
- Writer’s Digest Conference East (FW Media, New York City)
- Writer’s Digest Conference West (FW Media Los Angeles)
- Author (R)evolution Day (Tools of Change, New York City)
- The Muse and the Marketplace (Grub Street, Boston)
Event Planning and Programming
Past presentations and productions include:
- StoryDrive Asia, Singapore
- INDEX: Awards 2009, INDEX: Design to Improve Life, Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Koncerthuset, Copenhagen
- United Nations World Food Programme Global Meeting, Firenze
- The FutureBook, London
- The Muse and the Marketplace, Boston
- Writer’s Digest Conference East
- Writer’s Digest Conference West
- Klopotek Publishers Forum, Berlin
- PubSmart Conference, Charleston
- IDPF Digital Book, New York City
- New York Author Fair, London
- Novelists, Inc., St. Pete Beach
- Writer Unboxed’s Un-Conference, Salem, Massachusetts