The Shy Writer by C. Hope Clark

Reviewed by Kathleen Ewing

How do you feel about doing a book signing? No, how do you really feel about it? Does the thought of a public appearance to promote your work send you to the medicine cabinet for the Maalox™ bottle?

At a time when people feel compelled to apologize for their perceived shortcomings, C. Hope Clark’s new book, THE SHY WRITER, encourages the painfully reserved among us to cherish our personal worth and to honor the traits that set us apart from others.

THE SHY WRITER not only offers us empowerment to seek our individual levels of tolerance for publicity, but it also provides us the tools to handle the job in a cool, professional manner, tools Clark has honed through years of conflict with her own personal barrier of bashfulness. She lines those tools out for us like shiny new surgical instruments on a tray. We select only those pieces that suit our unique style of operation.

If the mere proposal of a promotional tour gives us motion sickness, THE SHY WRITER reassures us by providing viable options--dozens of them--for placing our names, products and careers before the public.

Our only complaint about the book? It was too short!
 

Kathleen Ewing is a Prescott Valley-based freelancer who creates newsletters, brochures, and grants for her day job and writes features by night, but her greatest anytime love is writing fiction.
 

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