About the editor and Voices from the Underground
Ken Wachsberger is the founder of azenphonypress.com and kenthebookcoach.com. He is a long-time writer, editor, author, speaker, educator, and political organizer, as well as an early member, a book contract adviser, and a former national officer of the National Writers Union.
While teaching at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Ken led the successful nine-year drive that resulted in the formation of the first-ever bargaining unit for adjunct faculty in Michigan.
Today, Ken is a book coach, editor, and member of the National Speakers Association. Among his topics are
- How to write and publish your own book
- What’s your I-factor?: Writing for self-discovery and healing
- Writing to preserve your legacy
- How to negotiate your own author contract
- The Vietnam era underground press
Other topics he has spoken on include the First Amendment, writers’ rights, teachers’ rights, copyright, Jewish resistance during World War II, the I-Search paper, how to keep sane as a breast cancer support person, and intranational hitchhiking in the seventies.
The four-volume Voices from the Underground Series is a product of Ken’s experiences in the seventies when he traveled the country, mostly via thumb (his first book is the novel Beercans on the Side of the Road: The Story of Henry the Hitchhiker); organized against the Vietnam War; and worked on underground papers everywhere he went. His history of the underground press from East Lansing-Lansing, Michigan, which appears in the first volume, was the prototype article for Voices from the Underground.
To invite Ken to speak at your event, send email to ken@kenthebookcoach.com.
