What is the importance of saying thank you to your audience for listening? How do you tell your audience thank you for watching my presentation if you made a visual presentation? In what moments does a presentation require more from you? When is it appropriate to simply say “thank you” and close your presentation? Being able to give a proper presentation thank you address is a helpful public speaking skill. Learn more about THANK YOU FOR LISTENING on Julia’s website, or via the links below.As important as an introduction is to a speech presentation, the end of your presentation is what you leave your audience with. But at some point I just had to trust that there had to be at least some people out there like me. I just wasn’t sure if anyone else would want to read it! Which is kind of a problem if you’re writing commercial fiction. They say write the book you want to read, and I can definitely say I did that. And make it funny! So the most rewarding aspect for me is that I knew the level of execution required to make this ridiculous idea of mine work and I think, in the end, I did it. And within all that, of course, I just wanted to tell a good yarn with empathetic characters. I wanted to see if I could hit all the necessary Romance beats that make a love story satisfying while also hanging a lantern on those beats and simultaneously subverting the expectations for them whenever possible. But instead, I chose joy and wrote a RomCom. If it had been Literary, it would have been satire. Julia Whelan: I set myself the task of writing a very self-conscious book. Q: What has been the most rewarding aspect of having written this book? Take the leap, regardless of the outcome.
The challenge that gets them both over the finish line is learning to risk. If we’re constantly comparing who we were in the past to who we are in the present, how can we ever embrace the future? Both main characters struggle with this, but the solution is different for each. Julia Whelan: It’s a story about the journey of self-acceptance. Q: What do your characters have to overcome in this story? What challenge do you set before them? Julia Whelan: Writing it anyway, knowing that people were going to think it’s autobiographical. Q: What unique challenges did this book pose for you, if any? Julia Whelan: It’s not autobiographical, I swear. Q: What would you like people to know about the story itself? She doesn’t believe in what Romance is selling, but through her correspondence with her co-narrator – the industry’s hottest, most enigmatic male voice – she forges a connection with another human being that forces her to reconsider what she thought she knew about romance… and life, in general. Faced with the expense of caring for her beloved but declining grandmother, she takes a lucrative job recording a genre she’s sworn off: Romance.
Despite that, her life is actually pretty great, if she could only appreciate what she has instead of focusing on what she’s lost. Julia Whelan: After a tragic accident seven years prior, a former-actress-turned-audiobook-narrator has officially given up on her dreams. What’s this “utterly unforgettable” (JT Ellison) book of “pure magic” (Jodi Picoult) about? Read on to learn more! This is a standout offering amid a sea of rom-coms.” Powell’s Books writes that the book is “every bit the gift that her work as audiobook narrator is… Whelan’s dialogue, pacing, and sense of humor are topnotch. Whelan’s skillfully nuanced writing truly shines”). It has garnered starred reviews from both Kirkus (““A compulsively readable story about self-discovery with plenty of laughs and spice along the way” ) and Booklist (“a poignant and charming novel. WU contributor, actress, and acclaimed audiobook narrator Julia Whelan’s second novel, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING, releases this coming Tuesday, August 2nd.
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