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Speakipedia Podcast #31: Tamsen Webster

Speakipedia Posted on December 4, 2024 by juanDecember 11, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #31: Tamsen Webster

  Transcript Dave Bricker (00:06) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakepedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #22: Paula Rizzo

Speakipedia Posted on September 12, 2024 by juanOctober 9, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #22: Paula Rizzo

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing … More ☛

Speakipedia Podcast #10:
Johann Callaghan

Speakipedia Posted on June 24, 2024 by juanJuly 16, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast #10: Johann Callaghan

Dave Bricker (00:01) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia .com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ☛

Essay Writing and The Art of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Essay Writing and The Art of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

The principles behind the simple art of essay writing can be applied to most any kind of written work. Even if you never write an academic paper again, these techniques will help you write more focused and powerful prose. Time … More ☛

Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework

This article discusses the pros and cons of traditional publishing. Abandon your biases, study the business of publishing, and choose the publishing method that best suits you and your book. Perhaps the biggest myth in publishing is that as a … More ☛

The Perfect Book Sales Page

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
The Perfect Book Sales Page

Tom Morkes published The Perfect Book sales Page on his blog. I’m usually the first person to reject formulaic approaches to book marketing. Many well-written books are horrible products. But what I like about Tom’s template is that it forces … More ☛

Book Giveaways: Are They Worth it?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Giveaways: Are They Worth it?

Should you give away books for free? The value of book giveaways can’t be assessed by formula. The prevailing mythology suggests that the goal of publishing is to sell books, but the huge majority of indie publishers don’t do the … More ☛

How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 14, 2024
How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX

This article explains how to produce and market a professional quality audiobook using Amazon ACX. Through ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), I was able to audition voiceover talent, choose a professional producer, review the work in progress, and make my audiobook … More ☛

Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
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 proportions and placement of objects on a page. Page layout for books is governed by a range of factors. Trade … More ☛

Encouragement for Those On The Path to Better Writing

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Encouragement for Those On The Path to Better Writing

So many writers get discouraged. This stinks. I quit. Others are overconfident. They’ve always had “a gift for words” so they fail to submit their prose to an editor‘s scrutiny. I recently shared an email exchange with an editing client … More ☛

Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?

You threw a grand party but nobody came. Your novel is so good but you’re not selling books. What happened? You were supposed to appear on Oprah’s show. Terry Gross isn’t calling you for an interview. You may be an … More ☛

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3

This third installment of Judging a Book by its Cover looks at great book cover designs that won the 2012 Design Observer 50 Books-50 Covers award. Part 1 explored how most book design rarely rises above “competent.” Part 2 looked … More ☛

Book Cover Typefaces and Cover Design Horror Stories

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Cover Typefaces and Cover Design Horror Stories

I recently responded to a question in a writers‘ forum from an author who was in the process of designing a cover for her novel set in a swamp in New Orleans. “I chose a ‘swampy’ font that hangs down … More ☛

Reality Checklist for Self-Publishers

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Reality Checklist for Self-Publishers

One question that loops endlessly on writers’ forums is “How can I sell more books?” The question is a natural one, but for many self-publishers, it betrays a certain lack of awareness about the publishing business. Lest I sound holier … More ☛

Why You Need a Professional Editor

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Why You Need a Professional Editor

After completing the final draft of a manuscript for my fifth book, I wanted a reality check. I hired a professional editor and learned something important about self-publishing. No matter how capable you are as a writer and proofreader, you … More ☛

Straight Talk About Book Reviews

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Straight Talk About Book Reviews

Book  reviews are critically important. Have you ever read a book hoping it would get better, only to find that it never did? And how do you tell if an independently published book is any good? So many are poorly … More ☛

Self-Publishing: Art or Business?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Self-Publishing: Art or Business?

The very idea of “book marketing” is vague. It’s like subsuming advertising and fine art sales into a single realm of “image marketing.” And in tacking marketing on as the de facto second phase of writing a book, a lot of worthy artists’ resources are placed in jeopardy.

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Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
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 at first glance, but they present interesting typesetting challenges. Many digital typefaces offer several number styles but few designers know … More ☛

Self-Publishers Should Not Be Self-Editors

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Self-Publishers Should Not Be Self-Editors

Editing is one of the first hurdles you’ll encounter as an independent writer. Your fan club is your enemy. Encouraging friends who think it’s “wonderful you actually wrote a book” are not unbiased editors. A good editor will put your … More ☛

Many Unhappy Returns – Think Outside the Bookstore

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Many Unhappy Returns – Think Outside the Bookstore

If you’re hoping to have mainstream bookstore distribution, using a Vanity Press may present some obstacles. Book buyers will likely tell you, “your book may be excellent, but you’re using a Vanity Publisher and the vast majority of their books … More ☛

Climax

Speakipedia Posted on June 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerAugust 14, 2024
Climax

Climax. Yeah, we all know what that is … but in the context of storytelling and public speaking, a climax is the moment of greatest tension or conflict, where the stakes are highest and the outcome is decided. It’s the … More ☛

Narrative Hook

Speakipedia Posted on June 12, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 28, 2024
Narrative Hook

Narrative Hook—an opening to a story that grabs the audience’s attention so that they want to keep reading or listening. An article published by TIME magazine in 2015 quoted Microsoft research that concluded that humans have an attention span of … More ☛

Speaking Vocabulary

Speakipedia Posted on January 21, 2024 by Dave BrickerJuly 28, 2024
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 extreme as to be impossible “You will sooner find a donkey flying than see me agree to that deal.” Allegory … More ☛

Jazz and the Dangerous Magic of Creative Flow

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Perhaps you’ve experienced flow writing. You sit down, watch your fingers tap away at the keyboard, and wonder, Where did that come from? Did I write that? That’s really good!  Sometimes the experience of flow can be as simple and … More ☛

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