River Jordan Radio

River Jordan is a southerner with a global perspective. She began her writing career as a playwright and spent over ten years with the Loblolly Theatre group, where her original works were produced, including Mama Jewels: Tales from Mullet Creek, Soul, Rhythm and Blues, and Virga.

Okay, so this past Sunday I grab a NY Times Sunday edition and dig in for some off the clock reading time. Imagine my no big surprise when I'm reading a major ariticle about how many blogs are now turning into lucrative book contracts and they are interviewing Ron Hogan, man on the publishing beat, to give his 3 cents take on the subject.

When I first met Ron we were in another state somewhere at an outdoor party for authors attending and presenting at that years festival. Right now, I'm pretty certain it was Virginia. Then I began to realize when Ron popped up a year later in Texas at the Pulwood Queens Girlfriend Getaway Weekend that he really was a man on a mission and was not only covering the publishing/writing business, he was literally staying in the thick of it. (Now if only I had time to dig up those pictures of Ron at the Hollywood Hairball from last year!)

So don't miss it this Saturday as Ron Hogan puts his feet up to chat awhile and be Great Company on Backstory.

He's gonna tell us about how he created Beatrice.com in 1995, making it one of the oldest continuously running literary websites on the Internet. He also writes about the business side of publishing at GalleyCat.

He speaks frequently at book festivals and industry conferences, to both aspiring and published authors, about the bookblog phenomenon and other transformative trends in book publishing. Newspapers and magazines also call upon him to discuss such issues:

The New York Times
Newsweek
The Boston Herald
The Washington Times (and again!)
The Los Angeles Times

He is the author of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane, a visual tribute to '70s Hollywood Publishers Weekly called "one of the year's most fun" coffee table books when it was published in 2005. He also contributed to the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning.

He has published an e-book of his "translation" of the Tao Te Ching that is downloaded by more than 25,000 readers a year in various formats.

More Great Music, Great Stories, and Great Company on Backstory this Saturday! Tune in at 98.9fm in Nashville, Comcast SAP Channel 10 in Davidson County or at www.radiofreenashville.org 4-6CST

Labels: Backstory, NY Times, Ron Hogan, writing

posted by River Jordan at 6:42 PM

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