Presentations
Panel on Writer/Editor Websites at the Bay Area Editors’ Forum (2010)
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Participant Guidelines The point of this friendly, peer discussion is for you to candidly share whatever you can about your experience related to having your own website, for the benefit of those who are considering launching their own…or those who may be in the middle of it themselves, including: why you decided to establish your [...]
Writing in a Web 2.0 World (2009)
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On June 24, 2009, I spoke at SofTECH in San Rafael about how the Internet has changed the English language and the way we write, and how social media tools like blogs and Twitter might change it further. We discussed the tension between writing for search engines and writing for humans. Listen to the recording [...]
Self-Publishing, Print on Demand, and You (2008)
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, I gave a presentation about self-publishing and POD to Clive Matson’s “Getting Published” writers’ group. I’ve reproduced my handout here. Click the “play” button below for the recording. If you pay close attention, you can hear me make a mortifying grammar gaffe: I said “have chose” instead of “have chosen.” [...]
Writing and Publishing for Consultants Panel (2007)
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The Writing and Publishing for Consultants panel at the July meeting of the Bay Area Consultants Network was a great success. You can download the handout with links to publishing resources from the BACN website. Here is the list of questions addressed by panelists Patricia Coate, Dr. Bette Daoust, and Karen Pierce Gonzalez (with a [...]
Talk Your Way to a Book (2005)
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Nothing makes you an authority like being an author. The highest speaking fees and the best consulting gigs go to people with books. With a book, you can reach people who will never have the chance to hear you speak. If you’re a successful speaker, you already have what you need to become an author: [...]
