{"id":389,"date":"2024-10-16T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckroth.wordpress.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:39:13","slug":"hey-im-speaking-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"“Hey, I’m Speaking Here!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Good Morning and Happy New Year once again!\u00a0 My name is A. K. Buckroth, author of “My Diabetic Soul – An Autobiography.”\u00a0 Thank you for inviting me here this morning.\u00a0 IHOP (International House of Pancakes) sure is a different place to host a speaker.\u00a0 You all go ahead and eat your breakfasts while I talk at you.\u00a0 My topic, as some of you many know, is diabetes….”<\/em><\/p>\n

I use a\u00a0a version of that line when\u00a0promoting my book during a Book Speak\/Book Signing.\u00a0 As an Independent Author, marketing this item is not only constant but quite difficult with little tangible reward.\u00a0 I do it alone.\u00a0\u00a0I do not have a team of people routing for me and selling the item nor collecting payments.\u00a0 I do that.\u00a0 As a sole-proprietor, I do it all, down to cleaning the toilet.\u00a0 That is just the way it is.\u00a0 I am cost-effective and efficient, personable and candid; a realist and an idealist; humorous and sarcastic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

An upcoming speaking engagement\u00a0needs your review.\u00a0 I am to present myself and the book in front of 20 – 30 other\u00a0published or unpublished authors.\u00a0 The setting is literally in a local IHOP restaurant.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0 a writers club.\u00a0 This certain club has been in existence for over 90 years, having obtained elite and highly respected credentials.\u00a0 I am honored to have been invited.<\/p>\n

I am not naive to public speaking engagements.\u00a0 I have participated in many over a course of seventeen years.\u00a0 However, this particular scope of\u00a0concern is not the topic of my purpose –\u00a0diabetes – but presenting the subject matter to people while they are eating some of the most highly carbed and saturated fats available to mankind.\u00a0 Visualize this: while the 20 – 30 people in the audience conference room\u00a0literally eat breakfast, I’ll be standing at the head of the table discussing the whats, wheres, whys, whos, hows, how tos, and how muches that is involved with this disease.<\/p>\n

I’m nervous.\u00a0 The\u00a0date for this event is two days away.\u00a0 After a self-introduction, I’ll begin with a biref definition of diabetes: “In the plainest and\u00a0 simplest of difinitions, diabetes means a person cannot digest food.\u00a0 I am not a medical professional in any way, means, shape or form.\u00a0 I am a diabetic.\u00a0 I am proud to report that I have successfully lived with this disease for over fifty years.\u00a0 I need to stress to you that diabetes does not have to be a death sentence.\u00a0 It is up to you – non-diabetics and diabetics alike – to learn about the intricasies of your bodies.\u00a0 This book is a blueprint for not only your health, but for everyone around you.\u00a0 It is full of knowledge, references, and hints for your well-being.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Sound good?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The demographics of the audience are\u00a0middle-aged and older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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