In a previous post, 100+
Bloggers, 1 Ebook, I told you about the multi-blogger ebook effort, The Conversation Age and asked for some guidance as to what you thought I should write about.

I received a small flurry of emails, thank you all! But in the end, I decided to go back to my beginnings. Long and short, when I strip away all the frou-frou from what I actually do for a living, it can only be described this way - I’m a professional letter writer, a teller of other people’s stories, and my grandmother is to blame.

That is the topic of my contribution, At My Grandmother’s Table: The Art of Conversation from a Letter Writer’s POV. Here’s a short excerpt:

Every Sunday afternoon after lunch, she would retrieve her writing tablet and pen and place them in front of me. 

“I have three letters to write. Let’s get started.”

She didn’t dictate her letters to me. No, she expected me to actually write her letters, even though I had no clue who I was writing to.

Sounds like the first bright buds of copywriting career, don’t you think?

You’ll find 99 more essays, all original, insightful and noteworthy, on every possible facet of conversation/communication today in this terrific effort — the entire profits of which are being donated to a children’s charity.  (My grandmother would approve!)

Take another look at this stellar list of conversationalists, raconteurs (and Z-Listers!):

Gavin Heaton, Drew McLellan, CK, Valeria Maltoni, Emily Reed, Katie Chatfield, Greg Verdino, Mack Collier, Lewis Green, Sacrum, Ann Handley, Mike Sansone, Paul McEnany, Roger von Oech, Anna Farmery, David Armano, Bob Glaza, Mark Goren, Matt Dickman, Scott Monty, Richard Huntington, Cam Beck, David Reich, Mindblob (Luc), Sean Howard, Tim Jackson, Patrick Schaber, Uwe Hook, Tony D. Clark, Todd Andrlik, Toby Bloomberg, Steve Woodruff, Steve Bannister, Steve Roesler, Stanley Johnson, Spike Jones, Nathan Snell, Simon Payn, Ryan Rasmussen, Ron Shevlin, Roger Anderson, Bob Hruzek, Rishi Desai, Phil Gerbyshak, Peter Corbett, Pete Deutschman, Nick Rice, Nick Wright, Mitch Joel, Michael Morton, Mark Earls, Mark Blair, Mario Vellandi, Lori Magno, Kristin Gorski, Krishna De, Kris Hoet, Kofl Annan, Kimberly Dawn Wells, Karl Long, Julie Fleischer, Jordan Behan, John La Grou, Joe Raasch, Jim Kukral, Jessica Hagy, Janet Green, Jamey Shiels, Dr. Graham Hill, Gia Facchini, Geert Desager, Gaurav Mishra, Gary Schoeniger, Gareth Kay, Faris Yakob, Emily Clasper, Ed Cotton, Dustin Jacobsen, Tom Clifford, David Pollinchock, David Koopmans, David Brazeal, David Berkowitz, Carolyn Manning, Craig Wilson, Cord Silverstein, Connie Reece, Colin McKay, Chris Newlan, Chris Corrigan, Cedric Giorgi, Brian Reich, Becky Carroll, Arun Rajagopal, Andy Nulman, Amy Jussel, AJ James, Kim Klaver, Sandy Renshaw, Susan Bird, Ryan Barrett, Troy Worman.

Coming soon to a blog near you!

So get your wallet ready and keep your RSS feed reader tuned to The Copywriting Maven for details on the official release of The Conversation Age.  I promise you a great read for a great deed.

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