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From time to time organizations ask me to speak. Although most of my presentations are not business related, a few have been, so I am including links here to the text of a number of talks and book reviews I have given. Most documents are in Adobe PDF format.

“The Lonely Pilcrow: Microsoft Word Tips for Writers,” presentation to the Wordsmiths Workshop (sponsored by the Baldwin Writers’ Group), Daphne, Alabama, April 16, 2005, including a template for novel or short story manuscripts

  • This is the handout workshop participants received.

  • The manuscript template workshop participants were promised is available here.

“Why Every Writer Needs a Copy Editor,” presentation to the Baldwin Writers’ Group, November 15, 2003

  • In the talk above I refer to an article by Anne Fadiman, which you can read here.

  • This is the compilation of “howlers” I refer to in the talk.

“A View from the Other Side of the Pen,” presentation to the Pensters writing group, November 9, 2002

Review of Grandfather Stories, by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Fairhope Public Library, November 28, 2000

  • This is the Adams bio referred to in the talk.

  • This is a handout listing publications of Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Review of The Dilbert Principle, by Scott Adams, Fairhope Public Library, November 26, 1996

Review of The Day I Became an Autodidact, by Kendall Hailey, Fairhope Public Library, November 28, 1995

Review of A Book of Country Things, told by Walter Needham, as recorded by Barrows Mussey, Fairhope Public Library, March 8, 1994

“The Perfect Detective Novel,” presentation in the Fairhope Public Library Book Review & Lecture Series, November 26, 1991 (note that all the handouts reflect the information available to me at the time, without Internet access)

Not business related at all, and not even exactly a "personal appearance," but I do have a blog at WordPress.