{"id":658,"date":"2012-10-16T04:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-10-16T04:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:58:21","slug":"a-speechwriters-tips-for-authors-on-the-speaking-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/a-speechwriters-tips-for-authors-on-the-speaking-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Speechwriter\u2019s Tips for Authors on the Speaking Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>A Speechwriter\u2019s Tips for Authors on the Speaking Circuit<br \/>\nBy Cynthia J. Starks <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last October, I drove through heavy rain to a Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore in Clifton, New Jersey, to wait in line to meet televangelist Joel Osteen, buy his latest book, <em>Everyday a Friday<\/em>, and have it autographed as a present for my cousin Karen\u2019s upcoming 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. Karen is a big Osteen fan and I knew she\u2019d be delighted to have a personally autographed copy of his book. Osteen sat at a desk, smiled and was polite as he signed books for exactly an hour, then left, accompanied by a few large-sized gentlemen I assumed were bodyguards&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/?page_id=653\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fcbk_share\"><div class=\"fcbk_button\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a name=\"fcbk_share\"\thref=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GBT-Kindle-Book-Club\/297949073623302\"\ttarget=\"blank\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"http:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/img\/standart-facebook-ico.jpg\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbk_like\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=224313110927811&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/a-speechwriters-tips-for-authors-on-the-speaking-circuit\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"\"><\/fb:like>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Speechwriter\u2019s Tips for Authors on the Speaking Circuit By Cynthia J. Starks Last October, I drove through heavy rain to a Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore in Clifton, New Jersey, to wait in line to meet televangelist Joel Osteen, buy his latest book, Everyday a Friday, and have it autographed as a present for my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/a-speechwriters-tips-for-authors-on-the-speaking-circuit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Speechwriter\u2019s Tips for Authors on the Speaking Circuit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[145,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}