Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga by Joseph J. Romm
ISBN-10: 1477452222
ISBN-13: 978-1477452226
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SUMMARY: This is the book to buy right now to improve your communication skills. But, you know, read the review first if you want.
For those of you who enjoyed my Job Search series over at Fan To Pro, I’m actually working on an expanded e-book version. Just trying to get the time right now, so I can’t exactly say when it’ll be out. I figure it was worth the effort.
Honestly, recording the experience of doing a high-powered job search in 2012 was incredibly enlightening, both for what works and what doesn’t. It’s honestly it’s very own skillset, and the specific issues, regional differences, and little oddities often threw me. I figure I knew what I was doing and I got surprised.
So I’ll let you know how that’s going . . . after the convention, and helping someone move, and . . .
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.
So, yes, we all know the story. Woman writes Twilight fanfic. Twilight fanfic gets repurposed as erotica series known as “50 Shades Of Grey”. Woman makes money. People make fun of situation.
Really the only problem as a progeek for me is the latter one – the mockery.
From what I hear about “50 Shades of Grey” is, to put it mildly, is rather purple and the content is may disturb some. It’s not Shakespeare or Pratchett, and there’s elements that sound rather squicky. But really the only criticism that seems relevant to me may be some of these quality issues, and even then there’s only so much I can say because I actually watch films like “2 Headed Shark Attack.”*