Carla King Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Misadventures Media is a publishing and media company and community, and parent company to the Destination Published author success program.

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, California, United States

Developed the tech and self-publishing track for the conference to educate writers about the tools, products, services, and techniques that help finish, publish, market, and promote their books.

Greater New York City Area

Report on publishing technologies and create short how-to guides on technology solutions and processes for independent authors.

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and maintained the group's website.Produced a series of award-winning travel and writing online magazines, including a lush multimedia PDF on Ireland travel in 2008. Collaborated on our self-published book Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, 2001, which was acquired by Globe Pequot in 2002.Co-led Wild Writing Women literary salons, a popular gathering place for writers in downtown San Francisco from 2002 to 2007.

Articles and interviews about new media tools, websites, offerings for self and indie publishers. New book in May 2013 based on the articles: How To Self-Publish Your Book.

Monthly online magazine for game developers working for Sony America, Europe, and Japan, and second- and some third-party studios, to communicate technologies, directives, inspiration. Formats included articles, interviews, video, case studies, news, and Game Technology Conference reports.

I worked as a consultant/contractor for Sony for nearly 10 years in the following roles:Managing Editor and Web 2.0 Project LeaderJanuary 2005 – January 2009 For the Web 2.0 web presence at http://developers.sun.com/web/ and related sites. Project leader for Web 2.0 functionality and social networking functions. Day-to-day website editorial management.Web 2.0, Sun Developer NetworkSeptember 2004 – January 2005Create technical articles, white papers, tech tips and blurbs for the Sun Java Studio Creator (Project Rave) developer website. Competitive analysis for product, web page design.Technical JournalistMay 2000 – December 2004 For the Dot-Com Builder site served as writer and editorial consultant, also managing editor for two special edition magazines on the Dot-Com Builder site: Web Services and Security. Conducted interviews with key technologists. For the Sun ONE Developer Web Site I worked with the team to develop the new Sun ONE portal; assigned and edited articles; authored key articles, such as Developing Web Services Today; and created reference library pages for the Technologies and Standards and Getting Started sections of the site.

Managed multimedia products including the epic Peter Norton's PC Guru which entailed scriptwriting, managing artists, animators, and actors. At the annual Digital Be-In, was editorial manager of one of the world's first live webcasts. Included event management of journalists and photographers, plus interviews of local luminaries from Timothy Leary to Jerry Brown.