{"id":4,"date":"2014-05-22T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portablenouns.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2014-08-10T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:50:09","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.portablenouns.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ShorReads<\/a>\u201cA noun is a person, place or thing\u2026\u201d \u00a0Comm\u2019on! \u00a0You know the School House Rock ditty from Saturday mornings. \u00a0OK, maybe we\u2019re showing our age. \u00a0At least you picked it up from grade school, right?<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t decide the best way to categorize portableNOUNS, LLC. \u00a0Is it a publishing house, a production company, or perhaps a little of both.<\/p>\n

The idea for portableNouns came to us several years ago when Roger wanted to create a new type of role-playing game supplement intended to reduce the time it took game masters to prepare for a game session, and while the game supplements never materialized, the company name stuck \u00a0Later, we attempted work with several artists we know to design and sell tee-shirts, after all what is more portable than a tee-shirt? \u00a0That didn’t catch on either. \u00a0The tee-shirt idea depended largely on us setting up in the dealers room at conventions, and we discovered, much to our horror, that most conventions already had established tee-shirt vendors, so they wouldn’t sell us space. (This despite the fact they didn’t have our<\/i><\/b> tee-shirt designs, but I digress.)<\/p>\n

So we took down our web site, and the company lay dormant for a couple of years, with nothing but the constant demands of the tax man to show for it.<\/p>\n

Then something unexpected happened. \u00a0The pastor of our church stepped down, leaving us to fill in. \u00a0Quite to our surprise, we discovered a talent for speaking.<\/p>\n

We’ve always loved audio programs. \u00a0So we thought, why not combine our love of publishing, our love of working with creative people, and our love of audio books into something interesting? \u00a0Thus was born our podcast, Short Reads for the Long Road<\/b>, which premiered in August.<\/p>\n

All the best,<\/p>\n

Roger & Janet Carden
\nportableNouns.com<\/p>\n

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portableNouns, LLC is a North Carolina, Limited Liability Company.<\/p>\n

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