how to give a speech about a book

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Choosing Your Topic

Writing your speech, how to turn your book into a speech (complete guide).

Turning your book into a speech can be one of the best ways to get your message out there.

With the recent expansion of virtual conferences, TEDx venues , and streaming video, now’s the perfect time to turn your book into spoken content—whether for a single presentation or a video series.

But where do you start? How can you turn your book into a speech that’s really good ?

This post will tell you everything you need to know about how to turn your book into an engaging speech that will hook an audience, hold their attention, and get them talking.

1. Who’s your audience?

The first key to a great speech is choosing the right topic. And finding the right thing to talk about starts with your audience.

Who are you writing the speech for? Who are you presenting it to?

If you’re presenting your speech to a specific group of people, they might make up just one section of your target audience. Or they might be your perfect target audience —but they might be attending this particular event for a specific reason.

Think about who they are and why they’re there.

2. Where are you giving the speech?

If you’re giving a speech at an association event or at a conference, think about the purpose behind the gathering.

What’s the theme of the event or the purpose behind the association? Make sure your speech fits the reason behind why the audience is gathering.

The event, as well as the environment in which the speech will be given, should also dictate the kind of speech you write and how deeply you involve the audience.

You always want your speech to be engaging, but in some virtual speech environments, you might not be able to see or hear your audience.

Make sure you think about the venue when deciding whether or not to include audience participation, as well as in planning the overall tone of your speech.

Whether your speech is thought-provoking and profound or high-energy and rousing should depend on both your audience and the event.

3. What has resonated with your audience?

Once you’re clear on your audience and venue, think about the parts of your book that tend to resonate the most with people.

The more people read your book, the more you’ll get a feel for the pieces that struck the most memorable chords.

People will comment on a specific anecdote from the book, or they’ll talk about how a certain idea opened up a new world for them.

Pay attention to any patterns that start to appear in those comments. Is there one story everyone seems to remember? Or one core idea that changed their perspective?

Take your book’s most compelling ideas and develop specific content around them that targets your speech’s audience and event.

4. Is there something big in popular culture or current events that relates?

People love timely content. They always enjoy hearing about things that relate to other things they’re caught up in.

What shows are popular right now? What time of year is it? What’s happening in the world? The more you can make your speech relate to current events or trending topics, the more people will tune in.

For example, when Game of Thrones was at its height, Will Leach wrote a series of posts on how you can use the HBO blockbuster show to understand mindstate marketing.

Not only were the posts a huge hit, they got Will an invitation to give a speech on the same topic at Merck.

5. How are you providing value?

Finally, what problem are you solving for your audience?

This relates back to your book’s positioning and why you wrote your book in the first place.

Remember, the goal isn’t just to get people to like your speech. It’s to get them to tell other people about it. To use those new ideas often enough that you stay front of mind.

So hook your audience with something spicy, like a popular TV show or a jarring premise. Then draw them in deeper by providing value. That’s the winning combination that gets people talking.

1. Hook them from the start

Okay, so how do you hook an audience?

One way is to use a popular show, like the Game of Thrones example. But there are a million ways to grab people’s attention. For example, you can:

• Ask a fun question
• Ask a thought-provoking question
• Make a surprising statement
• Offer a counter-intuitive fact

Whatever direction you pick, the key is to make it surprising and unusual―and put that surprising and unusual fact or statement right in the title .

Here’s another example:

• “What working with psychopaths taught me about leadership”

Nashater Deu Solheim’s fascinating (and well-titled) TEDx speech already has over 400,000 views on YouTube.

Instead of using current events, Nashater developed an “evergreen” speech that draws people in with the perfect combination of the surprising and unusual.

It’s unusual because very few people work with psychopaths. It’s surprising because the last thing you’d expect that work to lead to is insight into leadership.

2. Make it personal

Even if you don’t have anything quite that unusual in your background, everyone has the potential for surprise and uniqueness. How? By speaking candidly about their own lives—especially when it comes to things people don’t usually talk about.

The more candid and authentic you’re willing to be, the more your message will draw people in and resonate with those who need it.

You can choose a profoundly authentic moment or anecdote from your book. Or you can choose a different anecdote from your own life and relate it to your book’s main concepts.

Remember, you don’t have to literally turn your book into a speech. As long as your speech is grounded in the main ideas of your book and illustrates the same concepts, you can use just about anything as the hook to engage your audience.

3. Write for the time you have

If your speech needs to last a significant amount of time, you might want to go through your book’s table of contents and use it as the general outline of your speech.

Go through each main idea and distill it into a quick few minutes, presenting it within the context of your theme’s hook.

Don’t feel like you have to use every single idea. If some fit better than others, focus on those. But you can use your table of contents to organize your speech’s structure.

If your time is limited, one quick idea from your book might be better. Tell one or two stories that illustrate your concept, and make sure you provide value to your audience by leaving them with a key takeaway they can use in their own lives.

Whatever you do, don’t lose sight of your audience. Whether you’re giving a long speech or a short one, focus on what’s relevant to this specific audience.

4. Read your speech out loud

Once your speech is drafted, read it out loud. If you’re going to be on video, record yourself giving the speech. Try to use the same frame you’ll use for the real speech.

For example, if you’re giving a TEDx talk on a stage, your recording should capture your whole body (because some TEDx frames will be that wide). If you’ll be in a Zoom conference, record yourself in a private Zoom meeting using the camera angle you expect to use.

Watch your recording, and check for:

• A good pace and tone
• Confident body language
• Eliminating negative habits (smacking your lips, saying um, etc.)

Do it again and again until you feel like you could do it in your sleep—and until you’re comfortable enough to look and sound like you’re talking to a friend.

When you see great speakers who sound casual and “off-the-cuff,” understand that they worked very hard to sound that way in front of an audience. So don’t skip the hard work.

Stage presence isn’t entirely natural for anyone. It’s a learned skill. But if you record yourself over and over, giving yourself notes each time and doing it again, your final presentation will look as though it was no effort at all.

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12 Tips on Giving a Good Author Talk

by Louise Allan | Apr 9, 2019 | ON WRITING | 20 comments

As a published author, you’re expected to speak at writers festivals, libraries, book clubs and to writing and community groups. But, if you’re anything like me, the notion of public speaking might fill you with terror.

I’m not, by nature, a public speaker. Speaking to an audience, no matter how small—even a group around a table—used to make me anxious. As a student, I had to rehearse questions I wanted to ask in front of the class. If I ever had to do a presentation, I couldn’t sleep the night before, and I’d spend the day panicking, cursing myself for putting my hand up and thinking of excuses to pull out.

Prior to my book coming out, I was dreading the public speaking I’d have to do. Yet, here I am just over a year down the track, and it’s probably the thing I’ve most enjoyed about being published. I look forward to author talks—it’s a thrill and a privilege to have people turn up to hear you speak, and to be able to talk about your own book feels positively self-indulgent.

So, I thought I’d share a few of my tips for giving a good author talk. This list is by no means exhaustive; it’s just a few things I’ve noticed along the way:

• The audience is on your side.

They truly are. People haven’t come to criticise you or trip you up; they want you to succeed. It’s not like you’re a politician on  Q&A, and I’m yet to come across anyone argumentative in the audience. In fact, there’s always someone nodding and smiling encouragingly who I can look at if I’m needing a boost of confidence.  

2. If you’re not feeling confident, fake it.

No one will know this is your first time unless you tell them. No one will know your gut is roiling or that your knees are jelly or that you’ve hardly slept. Pretend you’ve done it a hundred times before.

I borrowed this tip from my son’s piano teacher, something she calls ‘champion pose’. You can read more about it here , but before I was due to go onstage or give a talk, I took five minutes to go to the bathroom where I stood in front of a mirror, flexed and told myself I was good enough. I said things like, ‘You’ve got this’, ‘You know what you’re doing’, ‘You can do it’.

Apparently, it works by raising testosterone levels, so you strut out feeling pumped. I don’t care how it works, even if it’s placebo, the very fact it does is enough. Plus, it’s good to remind yourself that you can do this.

It’s a quick little weapon to have in your arsenal if you’re feeling anxious before a gig.

3. Remember the talk is for the audience, not the author .

What’s the point of giving an author talk if the audience isn’t interested? Audiences have given up their time and gone out of their way to hear you speak, so you want to make it worth their while, give them something they’ll enjoy, be entertaining.

So, think of your audience when you’re preparing your talk. For example, vary your talk depending on whether it’s for a book club or a writers’ group or for a group of business people. What you talk about should depend on their interests.

And try not to bore them. Keep an eye on the audience and if they’re fidgeting or restless, wind up that topic as quickly as you can even if you’re only halfway through.

When an audience is engaged, they’re very still and you can hear the proverbial pin drop. I got to know the parts of my talk that engaged people—the personal anecdotes—and added more of those, and I abbreviated the parts that sent them to sleep—the research sections (I’m speaking generally here—I recognise authors are invited to speak about their research at times).

4. Talk About Yourself .

Audiences always sit up straighter when authors speak personally. They want to hear about your book but, really, they want to get to know you, the author.

I find it as hard as the next person to talk personally, but it is possible to talk about yourself without feeling like you’ve overshared. I told audiences about books I’d read as a child, or stories and poems I’d written when young. I talked about being a doctor and changing careers in midlife. I spoke about my writing process because people have no idea what it’s like to author a book and they’re incredibly interested. I told them how long it took to write and how many drafts. Audiences are interested in the downsides, too—the rejections and disappointments.

Because my story was very much based on my family history, I talked about my grandparents and, because my story is about two sisters, I mentioned my own sister and her death in 1987 . At this point, the room always went still and quiet, and after almost every talk, someone would come up to me, often in tears, to share their own story.

5. Prepare beforehand.

This goes without saying and, as someone who gets really anxious, it helped allay my anxiety to know in advance what I was going to say. A talk might lack spontaneity if it’s over-rehearsed, but it’s preferable to being under-prepared.

6. Give the audience something to look at.

I prepared a slideshow, which took me about 12 hours to set up, but I used it, or variations of it, for nearly every talk I did. 

Before each event, I went over the presentation and reminded myself of the order of the slides. I also tweaked it depending on the audience (see above). It evolved over the course of the year, and is now an almost completely different talk to the one I gave at the beginning. That made it more enjoyable for me as I wasn’t saying the same things over and over.

7. Include Humour .

This is probably self-explanatory—every audience loves a funny anecdote! Bonus tip: you can recycle anecdotes because rarely do the same people attend your talk twice!

8. Be Yourself.

Treat the audience like they’re a friend, and talk as you would to a group of people you know well. Be authentic and honest. Don’t just talk about the wins, but include the hard bits, the rejections, failures and embarrassments. Tell the audience about the time you forgot your husband’s name, or when you wanted to hand back your advance because you thought your publisher would change their mind when they saw the hash-job you’d made of the edits.

Tell them the mistakes you’ve made and what you’ve learnt, not just in writing, but in life in general. Audiences love seeing the human side of you.

9. Involve the audience in your talk.

Ask questions of the audience as you go—who’s a writer, who likes reading, who’s read your book, and always make time for audience questions at the end.

10. Arrive in plenty of time and take spares of everything

I try to arrive at least 30 minutes before the start time to give me plenty of time if traffic’s tight, which happens as many talks are at peak hour. It also allows time to set up and check that everything’s working, sort out any problems and, hopefully, still have time to mentally prepare for the talk ahead. (And do champion pose!)

I have a bag pre-packed with everything I need, and a list I check before I leave the house. I take a spare of  everything  because things go wrong. I take my own computer as sometimes there’s a problem with the computer at the venue. I have a copy of my talk on my lap-top, as well as on a USB, as well as in the cloud. I have plenty of cables to fit almost any socket, so I can use my laptop if needed. I also bought my own remote control, one I’m familiar with and that I know has plenty of battery. (I take spare batteries, too!)

11. Be polite.

Be polite and gracious and smiling, even when something goes wrong because, at the end of the day, it is unlikely to be life-threatening, or even limb-threatening, and the audience probably won’t even notice. 

I’ve had events with no bookseller organised (which is why I always carry a box of books in the car). I’ve had a computer freeze mid-talk, so I carried on without the slideshow and the audience barely noticed. Equipment has been missing, the sound not working, the computer software out of date and not running Powerpoint. There have been questions from the audience that have been difficult to answer.

Yet, despite all the things that have gone wrong, I can honestly say I’ve never had a ‘bad’ author talk.

12. Don’t do a post-mortem

Don’t go over every tiny detail of your talk afterwards, berating yourself for what you omitted or wincing at something that came out the wrong way. Most likely, the audience didn’t even notice or, if they did, they didn’t mind, just as you don’t mind if a speaker occasionally stumbles.

So go easy on yourself and let it go.

The thing is, as a result of giving author talks, I’ve learnt more about my book, not just from my own preparation, but from things people have told me about my story. I know it so much better and am now able to speak about it on a deeper level than when I first started.

I’ve also gained in confidence and grown as a speaker. I don’t get nervous at all anymore, and my talks are more candid, less rehearsed. I talk less to ‘script’ and treat it more like a chat with the audience. They return the chattiness and there’s a lovely feeling in the room.

So, that’s my tuppence on author talks. Like I say, it’s by no means comprehensive, but something to start with to make your author talk special.

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20 comments.

Thanks Louise, very helpful.

Thanks Louise I found this really helpful and encouraging. Sometimes I get asked to interview authors (also nerve-racking!) and your tips will help to make me less nervous and bring the best out of the author!

I think interviewing authors is harder than being interviewed! It’s very nerve-racking, as you say! I’m glad you found the post helpful!

I’m pleased you found it useful, Sonia!

This is such a generous, honest and helpful post Louise – thank you. Now I just need to become and published author and all will be well … just kidding!! I actually have a reading coming up at a friend’s book launch and I am going to use several of your tips in preparing 😊xx

Oh, I am sure you’ll be a published author one day soon, Fi! And I can’t wait to hear more about the impending reading—maybe some photos? A video? 😉

Great advice Louise. I have always wondered how writers feel giving author talks especially when they are shy and introverted. Public speaking is not for everyone and getting past that feeling of panic is the hardest thing to contemplate, so it is good to hear that this became easier for you and now you enjoy it.

Public speaking’s harder for some than for others. I used to be the proverbial rabbit in the headlights with a brain full of fuzz. I could write a book about the silly things I’ve done in a public forum over the years! It’s all about confidence, which comes with (a) allowing yourself to learn and make mistakes, and (b) practice!

I hope that one day I will be giving author talks – and this is such great advice, like everything you offer Louise – from the heart and with others in mind.

I hope you’re one day giving author talks, too, Shannon! Thanks for reading and I’m so pleased you found it useful! 🙂

Seriously so helpful Louise, especially as I am now at the point of doing some author talks and feeling like I have no idea how to structure them! Thanks so much for being so generous and sharing your experience with the rest of us. 🙂

I’ve seen and heard you speak, and you’re wonderful at it! Honestly, Holden, your intuition is serving you well so just keep doing what you’re doing. 🙂

Thanks so much Louise for the vote of confidence! 🙂

Definitely a vote of confidence! 😊

Thanks for your great tips Louise. I’ll keep them in mind.

I’ve heard you speak and you’re wonderful, Helen. You’ll be great when your book comes out! 🙂

Thanks Louise. You are very generous to share these insights.

That’s lovely of you to say, Christine. Others did the same for me, so I like paying it forward too. 🙂

Can’t wait to see one of your author talks one day, Louise!

I‘d love to visit your neck of the woods one day! 😀

Preparing Your Book Launch Speech: Examples, Tips, And What You Should Say!

Are you an author who is preparing to launch your new book? If so, you may be wondering what you should say during your book launch speech. How long should it be? What are the key points that you need to cover?

In this article, we will provide examples of what you can say at your book launch, as well as tips on how to deliver a successful speech.

By following these tips and using our examples, you can create a powerful and memorable book launch speech that will help introduce your new book to the world!

Let's get started!

What Do You Say at A Book Launch?

You might also talk about any interesting tidbits you uncovered while researching or writing the book . If you have any author friends or colleagues who would be willing to join you on stage for a panel discussion or Q&A session, that could be a lot of fun too.

The Writing Process, and Any Challenges You Faced While Writing

How do you introduce a book launch.

It is always a good idea to start by expressing your gratitude to the people who have come to support you and who have helped make the book possible (if any). You can thank your family, friends, and anyone else who has helped you along the way.

Next, you will want to give a brief overview of your inspiration for writing the book. What made you want to write it? Was there a specific event or experience that inspired you?

These things should be said before you get into the nitty-gritty of the book itself.

How Long Should A Book Launch Speech Be?

A book launch speech should be around 10-15 minutes long. This gives you enough time to cover the key points without boring your audience.

Book Launch Speech Example

Thank you all for coming! I’m really excited to be here tonight. I want to start by thanking my publisher and everyone who helped make this book possible. It’s been a long journey, and I couldn’t have done it without all of your support!

Thank you all for coming! This is a very special day for me. I want to start by thanking my friends and family who have supported me throughout this process. Your encouragement has meant the world to me. Next, I want to talk about the book itself. I wrote this book because I believe that everyone has a story to tell, and I wanted to share mine with the world.

How to Make Your Book Launch Speech Stand Out: 4 Tips

3. Make it inspiring. Share why you wrote the book and what you hope readers will take away from it.

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How to Turn Your Book Into a Speech: A Rolling Stone’s Guide

You did it. You had an idea and you turned it into a book. But now that idea is still sitting in your head and you want to turn your book into a speech.

How do you take 50-100k words and convert them into a speech without lulling listeners to sleep?

It starts with what you choose to share.

You decided to convert your idea into the form of a book for a reason. Hopefully one of the big reasons was because book form was one of the best ways to communicate your idea.

That said, the stage is an extremely helpful platform for communicating. Communicating in person can reach audiences in ways books simply can’t. So, whether you plan to present your speech live on a literal stage or online, knowing what to present from your book and how to present it is crucial.

Let’s start with why.

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Why you should turn your book into a speech

• Gaining a platform for marketing
• Getting invited to podcasts

How to turn your book into a speech

Present extemporaneously.

• Final remarks

If you want to be a successful author today, some form of public speaking is usually crucial. Gone are the days when authors sat alone at their desks, writing by candlelight, mailing their finished book to the publisher, only to go back and do it again.

Readers want to know the author whose work they love so much. And while it’s pretty much impossible to personally connect with every reader, public speaking allows you to connect with many readers at once.

The good news is, if you’ve come to this article, you likely enjoy speaking to readers and sharing your story with them in real time.

1. A platform for marketing

Public speaking isn’t just a way to connect with readers. It’s also an amazing marketing tool . 

Books can only communicate via the words on the page. When you present your story via speaking, you get the added benefit of inflection, vocal pauses, rapid speaking, or slowing down for effect. All of these are vital parts of communication that it’s difficult, and often impossible, to get on the page.

Speaking not only markets your book, but it also markets you, the author. When you present your story on stage, you are the medium in which it is presented. 

The audience looks at your story idea through you, the speaker. And speaking is personal. The audience can see your excitement about a particular illustration and feel your passion for the topic. 

Public speaking is a way to connect with individuals in real time and in real space…and true connection is one of the most organic and time-tested methods for successful marketing.

Speaking is an easy way to create soundbites or graphics for social media marketing . 

Share fifteen seconds of your speech on your Instagram story , create an IGTV video, or throw a quote onto an image of you speaking and post it to your grid.

If you plan to have a Q&A session following your speech, consider going live on Instagram and inviting people to send in questions regarding the topic of your speech. This 1) engages your followers and 2) provides you with a frame of reference for the type of questions that may be asked.

You could also convert your speech into a blog. Cover the main points of your speech in text format. Bold the quotes you want readers to takeaway and create a “click to tweet” option within the post.

2. Your invitation to podcasts

While in-person gatherings are much more common now than during recent times in the past, podcasts are a great way to conduct virtual speaking engagements. Podcasts are also extremely convenient for your busy followers because it enables them to listen on the go.

While podcasts are known for being audio only, sometimes podcast hosts upload the visual recording to YouTube. Keep this in mind as you present your speech. 

When it comes to connecting with your audience, your nonverbal communication is as important as your verbal communication. 

Good nonverbals could land you that next speaking gig or that podcast. 

Small things like healthy posture and hand gestures that contribute, rather than distract, from your speech go a long way.

Avoid keeping your hands in your pockets, swinging your arms without intention, and shuffling across the stage. Make purposeful hand movements and when you walk away from the podium, be careful not to meander across the stage. 

Make eye contact with audience members on one side of the stage, then move back to the podium for a few sentences before moving to the other side and connecting with the audience there.

Purposeful movement can elevate your speech and go a long way in helping secure future bookings. 

Now that we’ve covered why you should turn your book into a speech, here’s the crucial next step: 

If you wrote a nonfiction book and have a book proposal , you will have already created a chapter by chapter outline. This is a great starting point.

If you’re turning your fiction book into a speech (maybe on the theme of your novel) your synopsis is a helpful place to begin.

Once you have your chapter by chapter outline or your synopsis in front of you…

Decide what specific parts of your book either 1) have the biggest message or 2) will create the largest impact.

A helpful way to do this is to simply print out your outline/synopsis or paste it into a blank document where you can cross out or delete any aspects that don’t answer the above questions. 

Remember: It’s crucial to know who you will be speaking to, or if you’re presenting online, who you’re targeting your speech for.

One of your chapters may resonate with a particular audience, but not another. If you’ve been asked to speak at a particular event, do your research so you have a good grasp on who your audience will be. This will save you time in preparing and also help ensure your speech is geared toward the individuals who will fill the seats.

Now that you know your audience and have cut any parts of your book that don’t apply to them, take it a step further: 

Cut the good illustrations, present the great illustrations.

If you’re talking to teenagers, illustrating your speech with how you demonstrated persistence by getting into grad school will probably fly right over their heads. 

Illustrating persistence with completing homework, taking college placement tests, or passing a driver’s training test will resonate much more deeply.

While there are a myriad of ways to present yourself onstage, speaking extemporaneously will help you connect with your audience on a much more personal level.

Written speeches are sometimes most appropriate for big events such as graduation ceremonies, weddings, funerals, and other such gatherings. However, reading from a transcript minimizes your ability to connect with the audience in the moment.

If a particular point makes the audience laugh, your main option for connecting with them is to smile, perhaps laugh with them, and then continue with your written speech.

If you’re speaking extemporaneously, you give yourself the option of adding a sentence or two of extra context and making yourself that much more relatable to your audience.

Memorizing your speech is a second option, but if you struggle at all with stage fright, you put yourself at risk of forgetting a sentence. If you forget a sentence, it will likely be difficult to find your place again and continue smoothly. Speeches that are memorized are also difficult to deliver in a way that feels genuine and not rehearsed. They are, after all, memorized. 

If at all possible, write a bullet-point outline of what you plan to discuss.

Please note: You may want to write out your first and last sentence. This is the one exception in extemporaneous speeches. Memorizing your opening and closing sentences allows you to deliver a stammer-free, standout fist and last line, maintain eye contact with the audience, and create an unforgettable closing.

The length of your speech will determine the amount of points and duration you spend on them, so outline in a way that best fits your particular situation.

Speaking extemporaneously allows you to react with the audience, spend more time on points they seem to really resonate with, and brush over points that may not land as well.

Final remarks for writers turned speaker

Before stepping on stage, remember, you wrote an entire book on this topic. You know it inside and out. Be yourself. All you’re doing is sharing your story with a room of people who want to hear it.

You’ve got this.

Take a deep breath…and simply start the conversation.

Your book is coming alive in real time. 

You get to see your readers’ reactions. 

You’re all together on this journey. 

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Speech on My Favourite Book

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• Jun 2, 2021

Preparing for public speeches can be daunting for many students. From overcoming stage fright to deciding on the right topic to finding the right arguments, the process is quite lengthy. That is why, in this blog, we have curated two samples for speech on My favourite book to help you prepare better for your speaking and listening tasks at school.

Speech on My Favourite Book (2-3 Minutes)

Good morning to all. My name is Reeva Raj and my topic for the English-speaking task is My favourite book. “ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers”. Books are friends who never leave your side. I find this saying to be very true as books have always been there for me. I enjoy reading books. My favourite book is Harry Potter by J.K Rowling. This book is about wizards and the wizarding world. Harry Potter contains a total of seven books. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the 2nd book in the series and it’s my favourite.

There are so many things for readers to learn from the series Harry Potter. It teaches us the importance of friendship. It teaches us that someone’s background doesn’t determine his or her value as a person and many more lessons. It also showed me that no one in this universe is perfect. Everyone has good and evil inside them. I have learnt a lot from this great book. It remains one of the most precious treasures of mankind. 

Speech for 5-10 Minutes

Good morning to all. My name is Reeva Raj and my topic for the English-speaking task is My favourite book. “ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers”. Books are friends who never leave your side. I find this saying to be very true as books have always been there for me. I enjoy reading books. My favourite book is Iliad by Homer. The Iliad is an epic poem written by the Greek poet Homer. It tells the story of the last year of the Trojan War fought between the city of Troy and the Greeks. Achilles – Achilles is the main character and the greatest warrior in the world. 

The Iliad teaches us many things, such as The importance of family is a central theme in the epic, the lovely scene of Hector with Andromache and his son is heartwarming all these years later.The friendship between Achilles and Patroclus is incredibly touching. The way Achilles fiercely and obsessively seeks vengeance for Patroclus has made many question if there was a romance between them.Priam losing his greatest son Hector and his supplication to Achilles to return his body so he and Troy can properly mourn its protector is another example of the theme of family.Achilles too lamenting his own father and how he shall never see him again, Priam and Achilles weeping together shows the futility of war as well as how family has affected these two enemies together.

The classics of Greece and Rome provide us with a set of connected stories and a cast of characters that teach us what it means to be human. They are also the basis of literature, teaching us about natural man (man at his best and worst, but natural man). They don’t give us the answers that we find in revelation, but they do give us the questions.

Books are wonderful – a bundle of pages with a cover on top brimming with content that stimulates the human imagination and helps us escape pressing reality. They are also beneficial to health. If you don’t like reading books, it’s definitely worth trying different genres until you find what interests you. Thank you for listening. I hope the speech was informative for you.

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16 public speaking books you need to read

• James Haynes
• August 12, 2022

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Introduction.

Starting a speaking business is exhilarating and rewarding… and very stressful. Being a public speaker isn’t easy, and if you’re like most people you’ve probably looked for public speaking tips to help you become a better speaker.

These 16 public speaking books — now updated in 2024 with four new resources! — listed below can help you learn how to become a public speaker, how to improve your public speaking skills, and how to develop a talk for an audience. Books on public speaking are plentiful, but these ones have stood out, some over decades, as great guides and resources for your public speaking career.

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Want to learn how to become a better public speaker? Read on for 16 public speaking books that you need to read. (Book descriptions from Amazon)

1. The Successful Speaker by Grant Baldwin (2020)

We’d be remiss not to mention this one! Do you have a message you want to get out into the world? Have you ever dreamed of speaking for a living? Is there something you have to say, but you just aren’t sure what to do next? The Successful Speaker is a proven, easy-to-follow guide to helping you do just that.

Whether you want to speak at your next board meeting or community gathering, start making some extra money on the side, or become a full-time professional speaker, Grant Baldwin knows how to get you from here to there. Why? Because he’s done it himself and has coached over 2,000 speakers.

In The Successful Speaker, you will learn the five-step road map to start and scale a speaking business from the ground up, including

– how to hone your message and know exactly who it’s for – the preparation process to help your next speech move an audience to action – what it takes to establish yourself as an in-demand expert – practical steps to finding and booking paid speaking gigs – how to know when it’s time to grow your impact and income

In each chapter, you will get specific action steps and case studies from professional speakers to put you on the fast track to booking gigs, getting paid, and building your speaking platform.

2. How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie (1976)

Drawing on Dale Carnegie’s years of experience as a business trainer, this book will show you how to overcome the natural fear of public speaking , to become a successful speaker, and even learn to enjoy it.

His invaluable advice includes ways to:

-Develop poise -Gain self-confidence -Improve your memory -Make your meaning clear -Begin and end a presentation effectively

Interested in going deeper in the mechanics of how to give a talk? Here are 25 tips to help you become a better speaker.

3. Ted Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson (2017)

Since taking over leadership of TED in 2001, Chris Anderson has worked with all the TED speakers who have inspired us the most. In this book, he shares insights from such favorites as Sir Ken Robinson, Salman Khan, Monica Lewinsky, and more— everything from how to craft your talk’s content to how you can be most effective on stage.

Want to learn more about TED Talks? Check out our blog post on how to get and give a TED Talk here!

4. How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling (2022)

Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life—including astronauts, hairdressers, rock stars, a retired pickpocket, high school students, and Nobel Prize winners—to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted live audiences and listeners of The Moth’s Peabody Award–winning radio hour and podcast. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth inspires thousands of people around the globe to share their stories each year.

Now, with  How to Tell a Story , The Moth will help you learn how to uncover and craft your own unique stories, like Moth storytellers Mike Birbiglia, Rosanne Cash, Hasan Minhaj, Betty Reid Soskin, John Turturro, and more.

Whether your goal is to make it to the Moth stage, deliver the perfect wedding toast, wow clients at a business dinner, give a moving eulogy , ace a job interview, be a hit at parties, change the world, or simply connect more deeply to those around you, stories are essential.

Wondering how do you tell stories that stick long after you’ve finished speaking? Have a listen to our podcast on how to tell stories that stick with Kindra Hall.

5. How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion by James May (2016)

6. speak with no fear by mike acker (2019).

It can easily seem like everyone is a gifted speaker when you watch TED talks or compare yourself to skilled co-workers giving presentations. But you don’t have to get caught up in the costly comparison trap. Instead, you can take action to improve your ability and to overcome your fear.

Through this book  you will learn 7 strategies  you can begin today. These strategies will give you a new perspective, they will prepare you, and they will give you actions to practice. As you implement these strategies, your fear will begin to fade.

THE SEVEN STRATEGIES 1. Uncover & Clean the Wound 2. Imagine the Worst 3. You Be You 4. Speak to One 5. It’s Not About You 6. Channel The Power 7. Be in the Moment

Are you struggling to develop a stage presence? Check out this article on how to overcome fear of public speaking.

7. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking by Mehdi Hasan (2023)

Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit for tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world.

Arguments are everywhere―and especially given the fierce debates we’re all embroiled in today, everyone wants to win. In this riveting guide to the art of argument and rhetoric, Hasan shows you how. As a journalist, anchor, and interviewer who has clashed with politicians, generals, spy chiefs, and celebrities from across the world, Hasan reveals his tricks of the trade for the first time.

Whether you are making a presentation at work or debating current political issues with a friend, Mehdi Hasan will teach you how to sharpen your speaking skills to make the winning case.

8. How Your Story Sets You Free by Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen (2019)

Everyone has a story to tell. Sharing that story can change you, your community, or even the world. But how do you start?

Discover the tools to unlock your truth and share it with the world: Storytelling coaches Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen reveal how to embrace the power of personal storytelling in a series of easy steps. You’ll learn how to share your experiences and invaluable knowledge with the people who need it most, whether it be in a blog post, a motivational speech, or just a conversation with a loved one. How Your Story Sets You Free is the path to finding the spark that ignites the fire and reminds you just how much your story matters.

Personal storytelling is insanely powerful when done well. For more tips here, check out this new podcast episode with Ravi Rajani on how to create and share powerful stories!

9. How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler (1983)

With over half a million copies in print of his classic How to Read a Book  in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.

In  How to Speak, How to Listen , Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.

10. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte (2010)

Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they’ve wasted their time? All too often, presentations don’t resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action.

Nancy Duarte created the slides in Al Gore’s Oscar winning  An Inconvenient Truth. In this book, she unpacks how to apply visual media to your talk. Her book Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author’s approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you’ll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact.

11. The Public Speaking Bible: A Survival Guide for Standing on Stage by Marcus Alexander (2020)

The Public Speaking Bible; a Survival Guide for Standing on Stage is a depository of essential speaker’s knowledge designed to further your career whether you aim to be a full time speaker, undertake management roles or simply wish to improve your voice and stage presence. All the tips within come via the author and guest performers, adding up to a combined three hundred years of essential speakers’ know-how.

Within this bible:

Technical advice: how to effortlessly project your voice, audience manipulation, crowd control, body language, hand gestures and more.

Additionally: a frank approach for overcoming stage fright, a foolproof recipe for memorising a speech, how to overcome a sore throat and using the physics of sound to your advantage.

Business advice: how to price your speech, approaching agencies, talking overseas, understanding unique selling points, the most complete list of global public speakers’ agencies and more.

12. How To Talk To Anybody :14 Speaking Techniques To Instantly Connect With Anyone by Ryan Harrison (2022)

How many opportunities, relationships, and experiences have you missed out on because you didn’t know how to talk to people with confidence and skill?

Well, from now on, you will know exactly what to say and how to say it in a way that makes people open their eyes with surprise and delight as you talk. You’ll capture the attention of everyone you engage with. Your words will have impact and influence, and your opinion will make a difference.

The author – Ryan Harrison – has spent 30 years studying linguistics and communication and has distilled his knowledge into these 3 books.

13. Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun (2009)

In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For managers and teachers — and anyone else who talks and expects someone to listen —  Confessions of a Public Speaker  provides an insider’s perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. It’s a unique, entertaining, and instructional romp through the embarrassments and triumphs Scott has experienced over 15 years of speaking to crowds of all sizes.

With lively lessons and surprising confessions, you’ll get new insights into the art of persuasion — as well as teaching, learning, and performance — directly from a master of the trade.

Highlights include:

• Berkun’s hard-won and simple philosophy , culled from years of lectures, teaching courses, and hours of appearances on NPR, MSNBC, and CNBC
• Practical advice , including how to work a tough room, the science of not boring people, how to survive the attack of the butterflies, and what to do when things go wrong
• The inside scoop  on who earns $30,000 for a one-hour lecture and why
• The worst — and funniest — disaster stories  you’ve ever heard (plus countermoves you can use)

Filled with humorous and illuminating stories of thrilling performances and real-life disasters,  Confessions of a Public Speaker is inspirational, devastatingly honest, and a blast to read.

14. Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds by Carmine Gallo (2015)

Public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo’s step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable.

Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a TED-worthy presentation. Carmine Gallo’s top 10  Wall Street Journal  Bestseller  Talk Like TED will give them the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives.

15. Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln by James Hume (2002)

Ever wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches? Or want to command attention by looming larger than life before your audience, much like Abraham Lincoln when, standing erect and wearing a top hat, he towered over seven feet? Now, you can master presentation skills, wow your audience, and shoot up the corporate ladder by unlocking the secrets of history’s greatest speakers.

Author, historian, and world-renowned speaker James C. Humes—who wrote speeches for five American presidents—shows you how great leaders through the ages used simple yet incredibly effective tricks to speak, persuade, and win throngs of fans and followers. Inside, you’ll discover how Napoleon Bonaparte mastered the use of the pregnant pause to grab attention, how Lady Margaret Thatcher punctuated her most serious speeches with the use of subtle props, how Ronald Reagan could win even the most hostile crowd with carefully timed wit, and much, much more.

16. Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results by Rob Biesenbach (2018)

Unleash the Power of Storytelling offers a practical roadmap to crafting and delivering more powerful, persuasive stories that you can use to get more of what you want out of your career and your life.

Taking a fun, no-nonsense approach, Unleash the Power of Storytelling will teach you:

•The hard science behind why stories work •A simple three-part structure for telling any story •The role of emotion in fueling great stories •How to cut the clutter and focus your story on the essentials •How and where to find great stories •Tips for delivering your stories in the most effective way possible

Want to learn how to create your own underdog Rocky story? Have a listen to our podcast with Clint Pulver, who used his story to build powerful relationships with speakers he admires and respects, and how he created his own board of directors as a result.

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How to give a book award acceptance speech

You’re an award-winning author. A master of the written word. Public speaking? Well, that’s an entirely new ball game! We understand that giving an acceptance speech can be a nerve-racking experience, especially for first-time winners. Whether at an award ceremony, book fair, or for social media, we’re here to help you navigate how to give a book award acceptance speech.

Follow these steps to give a memorable, authentic book award acceptance speech:

1. Express your gratitude

An acceptance speech is first and foremost an opportunity to say thank you. Use this opportunity to show your gratitude for the win. Open your speech by thanking the awarding organization and the judges. Don’t focus yet on personal thanks to friends, family, or other professionals, we’ll get to that. Instead, focus on expressing thanks to those directly involved in the award process.

2. Be humble, but not too humble!

Winning a book award is something of which to be immensely proud. You’re an award-winning author, and that’s no small feat! Recognize your hard work and achievement, but do so in an approachable, humble, and respectful way. Don’t be afraid to use your speech to vocalize how proud you are of yourself. You deserve it!

3. Recognize those who helped you along the way

Once you’ve thanked the judges and the awarding organization, feel free to thank those who supported you along the way. This can include friends, family, colleagues, editors, literary agents, publishers, and anyone else who directly supported your success. If you’re feeling a little nervous, it can be easy to rush through your speech. To avoid leaving anybody out, try to have a few names in mind ahead of time.

Speaking of speaking too quickly, here are some tips to help you relax before your speech:

• Take deep breaths: Regulating your breathing before your speech can help calm your nerves, clear your mind, and organize your thoughts before the experience.
• Listen to a meditation: Listening to a relaxing, guided meditation can help you settle any feelings of nervousness. Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music both offer free meditation practices you can bring with you on-the-go.
• Practice power poses: It may feel a bit silly, but the art of power posing can help you feel confident and empowered. Power poses include standing with your hands on your hips and raising your hands above you in celebration.
• Go for a relaxing walk: Taking a short walk before your speech can help to clear your mind and settle your thoughts.

4. Personalize your speech

Don’t be afraid to show your authentic self during your acceptance speech. Let your personality shine! Afterall, writing and publishing an award-winning book is an extremely personal pursuit. Anecdotes and tasteful jokes are wonderful ways to embellish your speech with a personal, memorable touch.

Remember, it’s still important to remain professional, so use personalizations sparingly, and find a balance between the light, approachable parts of your speech and the more serious, professional aspects.

5. Mind the clock

Running over your allotted speech time is an age-old award ceremony faux pas. Respecting the time of the audience and the organization is a critical part of giving a successful acceptance speech. To ensure your speech is well within your allotted time, you can inquire about the length of allowed speech time prior to the event. Then, practice giving your speech and use a stopwatch to time yourself. We suggest keeping your speech short, sweet, and exciting by staying within 30 and 90 seconds.

If you’re giving a speech via social media, you’ll have to limit your speech to the predetermined recording time allowed per post. For example, TikTok allows both 15 second clips and posts as long as 10 minutes, while Instagram reels can be as short as 90 seconds and as long as 15 minutes.

6. Take inspiration from the journey

From writing your book, to publishing and winning an award, you’ve come a long way! The entire book award journey can serve as inspiration for your speech. Did you experience setbacks? What were your greatest accomplishments? Did anything unexpected happen during your award journey? What have you learned? These reflections can serve as inspiration if you’re having a tough time filling out your speech.

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At Book Award Pro, we believe in making the most out of every step of the book award process. Each step of the way serves as valuable story marketing fuel, and your book award acceptance speech is no exception! If you’re giving your speech directly on social media, you’re already fueling your story marketing!

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Mr. Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked as a high school social studies teacher and football coach, served in the Army National Guard and chooses Diet Mountain Dew over alcohol.

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Until recently, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was a virtual unknown outside of the Midwest, even among Democrats. But his stock rose fast in the days after President Biden withdrew from the race, clearing a path for Ms. Harris to replace him and pick Mr. Walz as her No. 2.

Here’s a closer look at the Democrats’ new choice for vice president.

1. He is a (very recent) social media darling . Mr. Walz has enjoyed a groundswell of support online from users commenting on his Midwestern “dad vibes” and appealing ordinariness.

2. He started the whole “weird” thing. It was Mr. Walz who labeled former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, “weird” on cable television just a couple of weeks ago. The description soon became a Democratic talking point.

3. He named a highway after Prince and signed the bill in purple ink. “I think we can lay to rest that this is the coolest bill signing we’ll ever do,” he said as he put his name on legislation declaring a stretch of Highway 5 the “Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway” after the musician who had lived in Minnesota.

4. He reminds you of your high school history teacher for a reason. Mr. Walz taught high school social studies and geography — first in Alliance, Neb., and then in Mankato, Minn. — before entering politics.

5. He taught in China in 1989 and speaks some Mandarin. He went to China for a year after graduating from college and taught English there through a program affiliated with Harvard University.

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(WXYZ) — Republican VP nominee JD Vance is visiting Michigan on Wednesday.

Vance delivered remarks at the Shelby Township Police Department on Van Dyke Avenue.

According to Shelby Township officials, Vance will tour the Shelby Township police station Wednesday morning and speak with officials. He will then deliver remarks to media members. The remarks are expected at 10:00 a.m.

Shelby Township officials say the event is not open to the public. (EDITOR's NOTE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the event was open to the public.)

It’s shaping up to be a big week for Michigan.

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'Reckting': 'Super slurry' Trump caught 'glitching heavily' at swing state rally

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Donald Trump on Saturday was called out by eagle-eyed viewers who say he "glitched" several times while attempting to form certain words during his speech in Georgia.

The former president spoke at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia over the weekend. He spent much of the time assailing the swing state's GOP governor, who hit back earlier in the day by telling the ex-president to leave his "family out of it."

As he was on the stage speaking, Trump appeared to slur his words when talking about Vice President Kamala Harris.

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“Together we will stop Kamala Harris’ nation reckting, ahhh, I'll tell you what," Trump said, changing course.

The Vice President's campaign headquarters flagged the video on social media, calling it a "glitch."

"Trump glitches: 'Together we will stop Kamala Harris’ nation reckting— akfjslk I’ll tell you what...'" they wrote.

In a separate incident, @Acyn flagged a video in which Trump is talking about Harris "defunding the place," when he clearly meant police.

"She was endorsing defund the place, and the police, and she said violent marbs, let the violent mobs keep going," the ex-president said.

"Trump glitching heavily with claims of defunding of the 'place' and 'violent marbs,'" @Acyn wrote on Saturday.

Independent journalist Aaron Rupar translated the phrase as, "Violent moarbps."

Writer Mark Jacobs also called that a "glitch."

Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko replied, saying, " I’m surprised the media is not asking more questions about why no one around him is intervening with what is a clear and continual decline."

"We should also talk about his age," he added.

@JoJoFromJerz wrote, " He’s super slurry tonight even for him. Maybe it’s time for him to step aside."

In another case of mispronounced words, Trump said, "We will stop the Biden-Harris war on American enermgy."

In his conclusion, Trump also appeared to slur his words while saying "the econarmy will be roaring back" if he wins the election.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates have leaned heavily into attacking former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, as " weird ."

In doing so, they are striking at them in a way that truly hurts strongman figures, wrote authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat for MSNBC.

"It’s the summer of weird Republicans," she wrote. "GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump repeatedly mentions Hannibal Lecter at his rallies , speaking about the fictional cannibal as though he were a real person. 'He’s a lovely man. He’d love to have you for dinner,' must be one of the strangest things a candidate has said while trying to attract votes. Meanwhile, Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, has made news with his bizarre opinions, including a 2021 remark that Americans with children should be able to vote more times in an election than their childless compatriots."

Authoritarians have no problem with being called evil, Ben-Ghiat continued. But they despise being called weird — because it means they aren't being taken seriously; it means they're being made fun of, rather than feared. They understand that when they become subjects of satire, people necessarily question everything about them.

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Despots and aspiring despots, she continued, "have their own sadistic sense of humor, which is amply displayed in the awful authoritarian spectacles staged by their governments" ... but "cannot take a joke when they are the targets. That’s why they have to surround themselves with sycophants and lackeys, and their enablers know their prestige must be policed. When a man brought his pet rabbit named Mussolini to a bar in fascist Italy, thinking others would enjoy seeing him order it around, he was quickly arrested and served a year in confinement."

The "weird" line of attack on Trump taps into that same type of weaponized "laughtivism" that has worked to weaken the legitimacy of strongmen around the world, Ben-Ghiat wrote — and the Harris campaign should take advantage of it.

"When we laugh together, fear and distrust lessen, which is the opposite of what authoritarians want," she concluded. "That, too, is why such leaders can’t take a joke."

Nancy Pelosi: Some Republicans secretly want Dems to win to end Trump 'cult'

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) book, " The Art of Power ," was released Tuesday and the California Democrat has been speaking to the press about what is in the pages, while also dropping noteworthy comments she's been hearing from Republican colleagues.

Speaking to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday, Pelosi revealed that Republicans have told her that if Democrats can simply defeat Donald Trump , they might be able to rebuild the GOP without the same far-right ideologues who control their party now.

"The Republican Party has been hijacked," Pelosi said. "It is now a cult, and they should take it back because the public needs a strong Republican Party. The Grand Old Party, great things they've done for the country, great leadership that they have provided and what now? What now?"

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Then she dropped the bombshell:

"Some of the Republicans have told me you have to beat them in the general because we can't beat them in the primary, and then we will come back to our debate on the issues. What has been the role of government since the beginning of our country? It's just the competition of ideas and the excitement of it all."

Pelosi also addressed criticisms that that she gave Republicans an "out" in the debate around the elimination of Roe v. Wade when she pushed a messaging bill stating that women have the right to access contraception.

"However, when we put on the floor a bill that said women have a right to contraception, some people were like, why are you doing that? You're giving them an out. They're going to look sane for a change," she recalled. "Eight republicans voted that women have a right to contraception ; 195 said no. So, again, when we're talking about the creation of jobs, freedom -- freedom of women."

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Project 2025 architect rails against birth control and dog parks in now-delayed book

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts , an architect of the highly controversial Project 2025, has delayed publication of his upcoming book until after the 2024 presidential election.

The book, which is titled Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America and features a foreword written by Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, was shelved at a time when former President Donald Trump and his campaign have been trying to distance themselves from the project, which pushes a radical overhaul of the federal government that would give the president power to fire career civil servants and replace them with political loyalists.

However, progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America has obtained a copy of the book and has found that it contains tirades against contraception, childless Americans, and even dog parks.

When it comes to contraception, Roberts makes the case that it is at the root of much of what ails modern society.

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"We need to understand what could be called contraceptive technologies — revolutionary inventions that shape American culture away from abundance, marriage, and family — in the same vein," writes Roberts. "They shift norms, incentives, and choices, often invisibly and involuntarily. Conservatives inveigh against no-fault divorce, the Sexual Revolution, and the destruction of a culture of hope without recognizing that these cultural changes are all downstream of technological ones."

Later in the book, Roberts claims that contraception is directly responsible for the number of abortions American women have.

"As other kinds of contraceptive technologies spread, abortion rates went up, not down," he argues. "Why? Because technological change made having a child seem like an optional and not natural result of having sex and destroyed a whole series of institutions and cultural norms that had protected women and forced men to take responsibility for their actions."

Roberts sees signs of decay as a result of making having children optional — including in the proliferation of dog parks, which he calls the result of "antifamily culture shaping legislation, regulation, and enforcement throughout our sprawling government.”

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