Shut up and speak: Essential guidelines for surviving public speaking in school, work, and life

Sheirer, John

Business & Money

McGraw=Hill

Product Description The stories in award-winning author John Sheirer’s Stumbling Through Adulthood show the connections between intimate, personal experiences and the broader culture of America during recent years. These stand-alone stories feature a range of characters who reappear in multiple tales like surprise visits from long-lost friends. Some protagonists grow through different life stages, adding depth and texture as they age, change, and adapt. Sheirer’s beautiful writing combines realism, struggles, failures, triumphs, relationships, family, work, humor, ethical conundrums, politics, and even a few otherworldly visitors. Through it all, empathy and hope bind these characters together as they stumble through adulthood, strive to catch each other when they fall, and step toward a better future.“John Sheirer’s Stumbling Through Adulthood is a clever, witty, and intoxicating collection that will leave readers staggering with delight. As deft as he is original, Sheirer entertains with his distinctive oblique vision and a cast of characters both memorable and lovable. These are first-rate stories by a veteran master of the genre.” –Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein’s Beach House. “John Sheirer is a master storyteller—and a generous one, too. His characters are decent, funny, and relevant to the way we live. You won't want to put this book down once you start reading.” –Susanne Davis, author of The Appointed Hour“In precise, spare, accessible prose, John Sheirer creates intense and masterful portraits of his widely varied characters’ deeply personal worlds by conveying subtle but rich internal conflict and point of view. The characters who populate Stumbling Through Adulthood stay with you, like the friend with whom you have had a particularly intimate conversation.” –Sherri VandenAkker, writer, director, producer of My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic Review Honored by the National Indie Excellence Awards, Firebird Book Awards, Outstanding Creator Awards, Literary Titan Awards, Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, and New England Book Festival Awards.John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood is a clever, witty, and intoxicating collection that will leave readers staggering with delight. As deft as he is original, Sheirer entertains with his distinctive oblique vision and a cast of characters both memorable and lovable. These are first-rate stories by a veteran master of the genre. - Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein's Beach House. John Sheirer is a master storyteller—and a generous one, too. His characters are decent, funny, and relevant to the way we live. You won't want to put this book down once you start reading. - Susanne Davis, author of The Appointed Hour In precise, spare, accessible prose, John Sheirer creates intense and masterful portraits of his widely varied characters' deeply personal worlds by conveying subtle but rich internal conflict and point of view. The characters who populate Stumbling Through Adulthood stay with you, like the friend with whom you have had a particularly intimate conversation. -Sherri VandenAkker, writer/director/producer of My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic A witty, generous, hopeful relief of a book. If you want to immerse yourself in a world of struggle that also involves triumph and empathy, read these linked short stories. - Sally Bellerose, author of Fishwives and The Girls Club In his most recent work, Stumbling Through Adulthood, John Sheirer offers a collection of linked short stories marked by a good sense of humor and warmth and empathy for his characters. Like many of us, Sheirer's characters struggle with relationships, self-doubt, jobs that don't really satisfy, the problems of physical decline as you age. But there's also a thread of optimism running through many of the tales—a sense that friendship and love can help see us through the worst of life's problems. - Steve Pfarrer, Book Review Editor, Daily Hampshire Ga

Stumbling Through Adulthood: Linked Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Janice Beetle Books

Shut Up and Speak!: Essential Guidelines for Public Speaking in School, Work, and Life

Why does your mouth suddenly go dry, your throat tighten, your face get hot, and your knees buckle when you have to address a group of people? The old story goes that more people are afraid of public speaking than they are of death. So people at a funeral would prefer to be the person in the casket than the person delivering the eulogy!Shut up and speak means that you must stop dwelling on how difficult or frightening public speaking is. Shut up and speak means that you can't become a better public speaker simply by studying communications theory or relying on public speaking folk wisdom. This book gives you the guidance to "shut up" by tuning out all of the interference that doesn't help you become a better public speaker and to "speak" by throwing yourself whole-heartedly into speech-making.

iUniverse

Why does your mouth suddenly go dry, your throat tighten, your face get hot, and your knees buckle when you have to address a group of people? The old story goes that more people are afraid of public speaking than they are of death. So people at a funeral would prefer to be the person in the casket than the person delivering the eulogy!

Self-Help

Success

Why does your mouth suddenly go dry, your throat tighten, your face get hot, and your knees buckle when you have to address a group of people? The old story goes that more people are afraid of public speaking than they are of death. Think about that for a moment. That means that many people at a funeral would prefer to be the person lying in the casket than the person standing up to deliver the eulogy. “Shut up and speak” means that you must stop churning up stomach acid when thinking about how difficult or frightening public speaking can be. “Shut up and speak” means that you can’t become a better public speaker simply by studying communications theory or relying on public speaking folk wisdom. This book gives you the guidance to “shut up” by tuning out all of the static that doesn’t help you become a better public speaker and to “speak” by throwing yourself whole-heartedly into speech-making

Shut Up and Speak: Essential Guidelines for Public Speaking in School, Work, and Life

Communication & Social Skills

Big Table Publishing

50 Photographs and 1,000 ideas to Inspire Creative Writing The perfect cure for writers block This book is filled with intriguing photographs of scenes, people, objects, and situations with 1,000 ideas to stimulate your imagination

What's the Story?

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Big Table Publishing Company

I Like Sticks!

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

After knee surgery, a broken relationship, and some soul searching, John Sheirer decided to hike the same two-mile trail every day for one year, starting on his 44th birthday. He did it, writing about it in short (365-word) essays that make up this wonderful, quirky collection. John Sheirer lives in Connecticut and is a prominent member of the Northern CT Land Trust.

Loop Year

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

PublishingWorks

For Now: One Hundred 100-Word Stories

Contemporary

Meat For Tea Press

Shut Up and Speak!: Essential Guidelines for Public Speaking in School, Work, and Life (Fifth Edition)

Staten House

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