This week, I chatted with Jane Friedman, visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati where she teaches full-time in the e-media department. Previously, Jane worked at F+W Media most recently serving as the publisher of Writer’s Digest.
You can find Jane on Twitter at @JaneFriedman, and her blog: There Are No Rules.
My goal is to share conversations with those doing interesting things in the world of publishing and media.
Click ‘play’ below to learn about Jane’s thoughts on how publishing is evolving with the advent of digital media, and how the web is empowering authors.
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Interview is great, but HATE the word “empower.” Well over-used. Jane, however, is always great. Huge fan!
Good point. We need to create some new words! And yes, Jane is always great.
Thanks!
-Dan
Interview is great, but HATE the word “empower.” Well over-used. Jane, however, is always great. Huge fan!
Good point. We need to create some new words! And yes, Jane is always great.
Thanks!
-Dan
Dan Blank & Jane Friedman
thank you for your interview. As a publisher that lives on both sides of the coin…I have a publishing contract, and have soft bound and kindle/ebook self – publishing. I'm in this publishing business for 10 years. In 1999, I had an ebook store…crazy…I love the immediate sell of the e-Book/kindle transaction. I'm disappointed with my relationship with a publisher. I enjooy the power of control of adverstising…social media relationship with facebook, blogging, website, linkedin, tweet, etc. I work all day..x6 days a week…yes, trying to define what is the most successful…but each reader has their desire of social media…so I try to be varied in my communication. I also travel 1 month out of the year…connecting with a new global community. I don't use my email…and I close out mentally my work at home…I think this keeps my artistic photography to writing open and free. Enjoy your chatting online…an awesome partnership that I'm in the know. keep connected! jennifer Hope webster, chatwithgod.org
Dan Blank & Jane Friedman
thank you for your interview. As a publisher that lives on both sides of the coin…I have a publishing contract, and have soft bound and kindle/ebook self – publishing. I'm in this publishing business for 10 years. In 1999, I had an ebook store…crazy…I love the immediate sell of the e-Book/kindle transaction. I'm disappointed with my relationship with a publisher. I enjooy the power of control of adverstising…social media relationship with facebook, blogging, website, linkedin, tweet, etc. I work all day..x6 days a week…yes, trying to define what is the most successful…but each reader has their desire of social media…so I try to be varied in my communication. I also travel 1 month out of the year…connecting with a new global community. I don't use my email…and I close out mentally my work at home…I think this keeps my artistic photography to writing open and free. Enjoy your chatting online…an awesome partnership that I'm in the know. keep connected! jennifer Hope webster, chatwithgod.org
thoughtful and thought provoking. thanks!
Thanks!
thoughtful and thought provoking. thanks!
Fabulous and engaging! These are the kinds of conversations writers need to peek into. I'm an admitted Jane Friedman groupie, but I didn't realize that most of the disappointed writers weren't the unpublished–but the one-novel published. It makes complete sense, of course–and I think how difficult it might be for them to make the transition to this emedia-savvy experience, which will define a great number of us writers (who choose it,and I'm one of them!) in the near future.
Thanks Dave!
Fabulous and engaging! These are the kinds of conversations writers need to peek into. I'm an admitted Jane Friedman groupie, but I didn't realize that most of the disappointed writers weren't the unpublished–but the one-novel published. It makes complete sense, of course–and I think how difficult it might be for them to make the transition to this emedia-savvy experience, which will define a great number of us writers (who choose it,and I'm one of them!) in the near future.
Thanks!
Thanks Dave!
Jane's talking to writers like me who were well-published by mainstream companies, but there has been a mutual loss of faith in what we can do for each other when the e-book route is available. See http://takebackthebook.typepad.com for another way to reach readers–with backlist and hew works.
Thanks!
Jane's talking to writers like me who were well-published by mainstream companies, but there has been a mutual loss of faith in what we can do for each other when the e-book route is available. See http://takebackthebook.typepad.com for another way to reach readers–with backlist and hew works.
Thanks!
Thanks again, Dan, for another refreshing and candid interview. Great questions. Great exchanges. Jane’s the best stethoscope we’ve got for listening not just to the pulse of writing and publishing but to the hearts of unicorns, too.
I love the way you put that! Thanks.