By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Ether for Authors: BoatExpo America You wouldn’t think BookExpo America (BEA) at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City had much to do with the huge boat shows that fill such trade-show arenas . But you’d be wrong. When the industry! the industry! barges into the city at the… Read More
From Writer Unboxed: Agreeable Disagreement
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writer Unboxed: Agreeable Disagreement We’re flagging these columns “Provocations in Publishing” because the industry! the industry! is one overwrought place these days. Have you noticed how many publishing people stage every disagreement as if it’s life and death? No Writer Unboxed reader would ever do this, of course. It’s the others we’re talking about.… Read More
Read: Indies at BEA & Amazon's Fan-Fic
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writing on the Ether: The Indies Are Coming! Not that Big Six. (Thank you, Roz Morris.) This big six is a sextet of the highest-rising stars of the entrepreneurial-author firmament. They’ve taken Booth 966 together at BookExpo America (BEA). They are Bella Andre, Stephanie Bond, Tina Folsom, Barbara Freethy, Hugh Howey, and CJ Lyons. And as they head for New… Read More
Read: Hitting a Rough Patchett
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Ether for Authors: Ann Patchett’s Flying Leap On this side of the pond, there may be few authors as fondly regarded as Ann Patchett, she of the independent bookstore Parnassus in Nashville. But when she told The Bookseller in London that authors should become more involved in the industry and take greater responsibility as part of… Read More
Authors in the Inferno: Dan Brown and Books
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson Writing on the Ether: Authors in the Inferno It is so springtime for us snobs and critics. Dan Brown has heaved another one at us. And despite the fact that I may be killed in a dark cathedral vestibule in Europe by a rogue member of the Druid Daughters… Read More
Test It: Are Your Books' Covers Sexist?
By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson From May 9, 2013 Part of my series of columns on publishing, Writing on the Ether, appearing Thursdays at the invitation of Jane Friedman at JaneFriedman.com Shirtless Men Kissing Beautiful Women. How long have I been going on about these romance covers that choke the ebook lists? The trend… Read More
BEA Cupcakes: 'Women's Work' About Books?
Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson for Jane Friedman and it appears at JaneFriedman.com each Thursday. Sponsorship opportunities are available and offer generous promotion. Ether for Authors—another gas—runs on Mondays at Ed Nawotka’s and Frankfurt Book Fair’s Publishing Perspectives. London on the Ether, a new UK-related edition of the column, has recently had its debut at TheBookseller.com Read More
At London Book Fair: Jonny Geller
Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson for Jane Friedman and it appears at JaneFriedman.com each Thursday. Sponsorship opportunities are available and offer generous promotion. Ether for Authors—another gas—runs on Mondays at Ed Nawotka’s and Frankfurt Book Fair’s Publishing Perspectives. London on the Ether, a new UK-related edition of the column, has recently had its debut at TheBookseller.com Read More
Publishing's Masks Need To Come Off
Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson for Jane Friedman and it appears at JaneFriedman.com each Thursday. Sponsorship opportunities are available and offer generous promotion. Join us on Mondays at Ed Nawotka’s and Frankfurt Book Fair’s Publishing Perspectives for the new Ether for Authors column. Read More
Ether for Authors: Data Deluge
Writing on the Ether provides selected news and perspectives on publishing. It is written by journalist and critic Porter Anderson for Jane Friedman and it appears at JaneFriedman.com each Thursday. Sponsorship opportunities are available and offer generous promotion. Join us on Mondays at Ed Nawotka’s and Frankfurt Book Fair’s Publishing Perspectives for the new Ether for Authors column. Read More