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When it is time for you to give your presentation, you simply need the strength to follow through on your commitment to yourself. Don’t think ─ simply do what you planned to do.          SlideshowsI sometimes am…

Sometimes in preparation for a pivotal lecture, it is easy to be plagued by new distractions. These distractions come disguised as questions that have no good answers. Examples are “What if the literary agent attends the most difficult of my…

There is no substitute for knowing the subject matter for a talk. The positive impact of personal sovereignty is minimized if the ultimate source of your discomfort as a novelist is that you simply do not know the subject material.          One…

You’ve been asked to give a reading. Or to talk to your audience about your writing style. Or be part of a symposium on how to write novels in the 21St century.          Problem is, you hate public presentations. Or maybe you…

As a novelist in our current writing culture, you have to be involved in the advertising of your own book. This includes giving interviews; the most common type of interview is the web radio interview, where you are interviewed over…