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Sneak preview of my new book

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I don’t think I’ ve ever seen amazon.com do this before, but if you head over now to the listing for Confessions of a public speaker, you’ll see a special link to some sample chapters from the book.

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Hope you like them – if you do, help spread the word or pre-order now.

8 Comments

  1. mpg

    Nice, looks like all of chapters two and three.

    Being the obsessive sort that I am, though, I’m going to feel very guilty about having skipped past chapter one and gone straight into chapter two.

    Could you give us a one or two sentence hint of what happened in the first chapter?

    -mpg

  2. Juliet | Freelancewise

    Hi

    Looks comprehensive. When one truly thinks about it, it seems a little odd to be afraid of public speaking. I am certainly not fond of it – can’t say I would rather die though 😉

    I once saw an interview with Madonna and, like Bono, she also said how nervous she is on the day of a concert. Apparently she can’t eat more than half a bagel for breakfast because of nerves.

    Juliet

  3. Scott Berkun Author

    mpg: Chapter one is titled “I can’t see you naked” and starts with a story about me being on an airplane trying not to get into trouble with the person sitting next to me.

  4. mpg

    ( If we find typos in the posted chapters (I’ve found a few already), do you want to know about them? Or are they from an earlier pre-publication version? )

    -mpg

  5. Scott Berkun Author

    Thanks Mpg – this sample version was from a pre-copyedit prerelease, so none of them are in the book.

    I’m checking with O’Reilly to get the sample chapters updated, and I’ll follow up here.

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  7. Carol Worthy

    I’m about halfway through the book…Gave my niece a copy for Christmas. (She’s in college and hates having to give presentations.) And I know why speakers use boring titles.

    If the title of a presentation is sexy, clever or funny, it implies that your talk will be sexy, clever or funny. Rather than having to try to live up to the preview – we all know how disappointed we are when the movie preview shows ALL of the good scenes and the rest of the movie is a bust – speakers use a boring title, hoping that the audience will then be pleasantly surprised when their talk is sexy, clever or funny. If the audience doesn’t…Well, what did you expect with a title like Boring 101?

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