A quick note about the status of “The Portland Bottom Line”.
The call for contributions closed last Friday, July 16th. “The Portland Bottom Line” will contain contributions from 51 Portland small-business people. Though we fell short of our original (somewhat meaningful, but still arbitrary) target number, the contributors voted to press on with the book and aim for publication in November, as planned. Thanks everyone who contributed. We’re besides ourselves having you in the book.
If you missed the deadline for any reason, keep your head up. After the book launches, we’ll open the call for authors for volume 2 to be published next year, probably again in the fall.
We’ve enjoyed reading the entries as they came in. What surprised us the most–and it shouldn’t have, if you think about it–was that rather than presenting their chapters as case studies, the majority of contributors took a personal-story angle on their piece. Such is the power of story!
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be editing the entries and prepping them for production. Before now and November, we’ll publish an occasional sample chapter and keep you posted on where we are in the process.
Thanks for all your encouragement!
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