Topper Sherwood is a German-American journalist living in Berlin since 2008. He has written/edited for Time, BusinessWeek, DB Schenker, Boston Globe, Zuckerindustrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, Smithsonian Air & Space, Mother Jones, Common Cause, and other 'brands' in the US and Europe. His first novel, "Carla Rising," is an experiment with fiction/nonfiction *and* with online distribution/sales systems including Amazon, which is destroying traditional publishing and "intellectual labor" in the United States.