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Nov.21.2011
Dreams do come true.
After hard work, persistence, and a little luck your book will be published—it happens to, literally, several thousand authors a year. There are, according to the Book Industry Study Group nearly 400 new books...
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Oct.22.2011
Some of these are positive and some seen (to me) foolish. But if anything helps you - and your audience - do what you can with them. One iron-clad rule - less is more-than-enough.
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Dwight Garner Collects Public Speaking Advice on Twitter...
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Oct.01.2011
We’re midway into the new-year holidays sometimes called the Days of Awe, and so midway into the t’shuvah—self-accounting and reorientation—process this spiritual technology enables and demands. I love many things about High Holy Day services: the beauty of the liturgy and music, the communal and...
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Sep.28.2011
Anybody's who's spent much time writing knows that it's a pretty solitary pursuit. Just you and the keyboard, or the typewriter, or the legal pad and a sharpened pencil or fountain pen. Sometimes stuff absolutely flows, more often you have to drag it out of hiding, from under...
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Sep.24.2011
The first time I read in public I was at work reading stats at a staff meeting as to my progress on getting a project done. Years later I found myself doing much the same thimg at a different company. Luckily no one really commented much my biggest fear was to have them snoring through the...
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Sep.21.2011
Since my book got published last year, I've read in public at variety of venues. I've read in a room at a festival where people were more interested in the other stuff going on than in me. I've read at a luncheon. I've read in bookstores and libraries. I've read to rooms full of people, and to...
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Jun.27.2011
Yesterday, I gave a presentation to my local RWA chapter. This was a craft workshop, and there are different considerations when doing an informal chat, which is what I talked about last week.
For a workshop, you're going to need more preparation, of course. Here are a few more hints for a...
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May.19.2011
(Originally posted at Love Romance Passion,February 18th, 2010.)
After the publication of my first novel, The Kommandant's Girl, I was thrilled to be invited to speak at a number of events, ranging from small book clubs and library gatherings to larger fundraisers. I gamely accepted every...
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Apr.20.2011
(Another version of this piece--with HOT SEXY PHOTO--can be found at my official web page "A Curious Man."
Last Sunday, I delivered what I hope will be the first in a series of readings and speeches to promote my novel Dragon’s Ark at the monthly meeting of the California Writers...
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Apr.12.2011
When making a presentation, one of the most difficult challenges a salesperson faces is holding the prospect's attention. Salespeople are not alone in this—anyone who has done any public speaking can attest—but in sales there is added pressure. For them it’s a sale that’s on the line, so completing...
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