Goodreads asked Milo Shapiro:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Milo Shapiro After a speech where I was selling copies of my book, "Public Speaking: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!" , I kept getting asked by attendees, "Is this book appropriate for teens (because many in the audience work with teen groups). I didn't know how to answer that. It was clean enough for a teen, but not geared for them...most of the examples were business office oriented. After I went home, I realized what a "Duh!" that was...they were asking me to write the next book and I was missing it! The result:"Public Speaking for TEENS: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!" is very similar to the original, but worded more casually, with references that shouldn't get dated as quickly (like no teen I asked knew who Dear Abby was, so that story came out). Took about 18 months to write the first book and only about five to redo it for the teen audience.

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