How Jim Landwehr Got Published + Video: Library Love + Podcast

da-AL
6 min readMar 8, 2024

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Writing a book is one thing (info on my novels here), and promoting your work is a whole ‘nother beast. Practicing talking in front of audiences can help. Back when I was a member of Toastmasters, an organization where people learn public speaking and leadership, my 7th speech trumpeted the wonderfulness of U.S. public libraries. It fulfilled a project called, ‘Research Your Topic.’ Worse than public speaking, I fear memorizing things. With this exercise, I discovered how props help loosen me up and step me through the parts of a speech…

It’s a good thing that life happens whether you’re published or not, and not for the obvious ‘being above ground’ reason. I did lots of other things before I…

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