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Speakipedia Podcast #27: Marilyn August

 Transcript  Dave Bricker (00:05) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is…

2 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #25: Rob Shanahan

Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:07) This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by Speakipedia .com. I'm your host, Dave Bricker, bringing…

2 months ago

Speakipedia Podcast #14:<br>Andrea Gold

Transcript:  Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business?  This is Speakipedia…

5 months ago

Book Design Basics: Choosing a Book Font

Selecting a book font seems simple enough, but important subtleties and fine points of typography are not obvious to the…

6 months ago

Book Cover Design: Moving from Screen to Printing Press

Once you have your book cover design looking spirited and professional on your computer screen, how can you ensure that…

6 months ago

Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds

This article explores page layout strategies for books based on the Rule of Thirds. A grid system based on traditional guidelines ensures harmonious…

6 months ago

A Manuscript is Not a Book: Ten Tips for Manuscript Preparation

In my work with writers, I come across many common technical problems with manuscripts. These usually spring from the best…

6 months ago

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2

Part 1 of Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover critiqued "professional" covers taken from Amazon's Editor's choice…

6 months ago

How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate

Few subjects arouse more passion among writers and designers than the debate over how many spaces should follow a period.…

6 months ago

Proposed Standards for Book Typography

The word processor has placed new burdens on writers to understand how to use italics, big and small capitals, dashes,…

6 months ago

Book Design Basics – Dashes, Hyphens and Dots

This section on dashes, hyphens and dots goes beyond typographic aesthetics to explore how we can communicate more effectively as…

6 months ago

Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses

Use of Small Capitals—uppercase characters designed at lowercase scale—is one aspect of writing and book design that isn’t taught in…

6 months ago

Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers

Part 3 of Book Design Basics explores better ways to present numbers on your pages. Numbers (called figures) look simple…

6 months ago

Demagogue

A demagogue is a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than through rational…

6 months ago

Allegory

Allegory is a narrative technique in which characters and events represent broader themes and ideas. Through allegory, storytellers explore complex…

6 months ago

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, particularly the use of figures of speech and other…

6 months ago

Parody

Parody is a form of satire that imitates the style of a particular genre, work, or artist in a way…

6 months ago

Bloviate

To bloviate means to speak at length in a pompous or boastful manner. Otherwise known as the “soaring ramble,” the…

7 months ago

Speaking Vocabulary

Words and Terms related to speaking and speechwriting: Adynaton [ad-uh-NAY-ton]: A form of hyperbole in which the exaggeration is so…

11 months ago

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