Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings…

Author as Actor: Or how to get through public readings

with as little pain as possible…

[originally published on the Pubslush Blog.]

Reading at my hometown library in Hoquiam.

I spent the 30-something years of my life as an extrovertedactor, director, playwright. Over the last decade I’ve transformed into a mostly introverted author.

Recently as I attended other authors’ readings and heard about how much stress being the center of attention in public brings them, I realized those skills of...