Are You Here To Be A Speaker? 109Dan Poynter
“Each step that you take reveals a new horizon.”
Dan Poynter is author of more than 120 books, has been a publisher
since 1969, and is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).
He is an evangelist for books, an ombudsman for authors, an
advocate for publishers, and the godfather to thousands of successfully
published books.
His seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been
pictured in The Wall Street Journal and his story has been told in US
News & World Report. The media come to Dan because he is the leading
authority on book publishing.
He has starred in an online interactive book writing-publishing-
promoting program. His 20-year-old newsletter, Publishing Poynters, has
a circulation of more than 33,000.
Dan travels more than 5,000 miles each week to share, inspire,
and empower writers, publishers, and professional speakers through
keynotes and seminars. Some of his books are Writing Nonfiction, The
Self-Publishing Manual, The Skydiver’s Handbook, The Expert Witness
Handbook and The Older Cat.
Dan shows people how to make a difference while making a living
by coaching them on the writing, publishing and promoting of their books.
He has turned thousands of people into successful authors. His
mission is to see that people do not die with a book still inside them.
See his Para Publishing website at: http://ParaPublishing.com
Who do you think you are?
I often ask myself that question. I guess that I’m a researcher and
information disseminator. I love to study, I love to research, and I
disseminate that information in my books, my speeches, my articles, and
of course my website. I don’t like to think of myself as being an author,
or publisher, or even a publicist. We are all information providers, and
we have to think about our audience and provide that information to
them in any form they want.
For example, I write books, but some people out there can’t read
my books. Perhaps they’re a long-haul trucker or behind the wheel for
many hours at a time. So they can listen to my books, I try to put most of