Gary Genard is an actor, author, and speaker. He is the author of the Amazon bestsellers How to Give a Speech, Fearless Speaking, Speak for Leadership, and The Confidence Book. He is also the creator of the Dr. William Scarlet Mysteries.
Gary Genard’s Books
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NONFICTION
NEW RELEASE
THE CONFIDENCE BOOK
75 Ways to Reduce Your Anxiety, Let Go Of Your Fears, Change Your Negative Thinking, and Live Fully in the Moment
"The Confidence Book is amazing! Actor and master confidence coach, Gary Genard gives you fabulous tools and techniques to let go of your fears and anxieties, change any negative thinking you may have, and perform at your professional best. If you're looking for a resource that will inspire your confidence to soar, this book is it!"
— Jeannie Lindheim, author of Trusting the Moment: Unlocking Your Creativity and Imagination
Ready to believe in yourself like never before?
Actor and executive coach Dr. Gary Genard shows you how to transform your level of confidence for professional success. In this ultimate guidebook, the author of Fearless Speaking—named in 2019 as "One of the 100 Best Confidence Books Of All Time"—shows you how to perfect 'the face you show the world'.
Let an actor show you a level of professional ease and presence that naturally breeds confidence in you from everyone you deal with—including your boss and colleagues, industry professionals, customers and clients, and family and friends. Discover a performance expert's 75 secrets for quickly and reliably becoming a more confident you!
HOW TO GIVE A SPEECH
Easy-to-Learn Skills for Successful Presentations, Speeches, Pitches, Lectures, and More!
SECOND EXPANDED EDITION
Your speaking abilities are key to your personal and professional success. If you’re a confident communicator who can speak passionately about your ideas, you’ll be seen as a natural leader. This book gives you all the skills you need to understand audiences, enjoy public speaking more, and speak at your very best in any situation.
You’ll learn actor and speech coach Dr. Gary Genard’s powerful, easy-to-learn system of dynamic public speaking, The Genard Method. Professionals worldwide have used these theater-based techniques to succeed in speeches, presentations, sales pitches, meetings, lectures, interpersonal communication, and speaking virtually. Discover the step-by-step method for reducing your stage fright, organizing a presentation, engaging and persuading audiences, and speaking like a pro.
FEARLESS SPEAKING
Beat Your Anxiety, Build Your Confidence, Change Your Life
"Fearless Speaking is a powerful toolkit for overcoming stage fright, reducing butterflies, and becoming a more empowered and engaging speaker. In many ways, it can help you unleash what you’re capable of."
— J.D. Meier, Sources of Insights
You're overly anxious about speaking in public. When you're in front of an audience, your nerves get the better of you—destroying your focus, spiking your heart rate, interfering with your objective, even putting you on the verge of a panic attack.
Sound familiar?
This book’s 50 hands-on exercises are custom-made to help you handle the fears and anxieties that are holding you back. As an actor and speech coach, author Dr. Gary Genard shows people from all walks of life how to overcome stage fright and grow their confidence through his proven method for eliminating speaking fear.
If you suffer from speech anxiety, Fearless Speaking can change your life. Discover how to banish your speaking fear and build your confidence in as little as 12 days. Start enjoying public speaking today, and reap the rewards!
SPEAK FOR LEADERSHIP
How to Engage, Persuade, and Inspire Any Audience
“Speak for Leadership is an extraordinary book! It’s a strikingly original approach to speaking strategically yet with a strong sense of performance.”
—Rebecca Brewster, President and COO, American Transportation Research Institute
Are you as successful as you’d like to be in meetings, presentations, speeches, and videoconferences? Do you achieve maximum impact and influence? Do you speak with the voice of leadership?
In Speak for Leadership, actor and executive speech coach Dr. Gary Genard reveals how to engage, persuade, and inspire any audience. Discover how cutting-edge research in neuroscience and emotion, storytelling, body language, voice, and audience dynamics can transform the way you move listeners. This guide to more profitable speaking will show you:
How to fully develop your natural talents.
Secrets for greater clarity, conciseness, and confidence.
Ways to hook an audience within sixty seconds.
Storytelling tips to move listeners emotionally.
Essential qualities of executive speaking for leadership.
An actor’s techniques for commanding a stage.
How to achieve virtual presence . . . and much more!
Whenever you speak, you’re the leader in the room. Learn how to embody that role with poise, presence, and power!
SPEAKING VIRTUALLY
Gain Confidence, Boost Your Presentation Skills, and Acquire Virtual Presence in Online Meetings
Today, ‘the virtual you,’ is a vital component of your career. Are you 100% satisfied when speaking virtually? Or do you struggle with achieving online presence? Why isn’t there a hands-on guide to presenting yourself powerfully in cyberspace as well as your ideas?
Now there is.
Actor and speech expert Dr. Gary Genard can make anyone into a more dynamic communicator. Now the author of How to Give a Speech, Fearless Speaking, Speak for Leadership, and The Confidence Book reveals how you can command remote space with ease and authenticity, and make everything you say memorable. Discover how to improve your presentation skills while becoming more of a dynamic presence online.
Welcome to the secrets of success for speaking virtually!
FICTION
NEW RELEASE
THE WAY TO DUSTY DEATH
Book #4 in the Dr. William Scarlet Mysteries
A novel of ancient horror. When an archaeological team awakens an ancient demon whose task is to destroy its enemies . . . the evil entity begins to take its revenge on Victorian society.
The demon-goddesses’ task was to destroy all invaders. But they have been sleeping for 2,500 years . . . until the archaeologists open the Assyrian tomb. Then one of the team makes the biggest mistake of all—by completing the ritual that brings the deadliest of the immortals, Lamashtu, back to life in 1889.
Now “the daughter of Heaven, whose embrace is death,” has followed the scientists back to London, where she is eliminating members of the team, one by one. Scotland Yard medical examiner and psychic Dr. William Scarlet leads the pursuit to find the monster, now hunting innocent victims in the capital’s dimly-lit streets and alleyways. What he discovers will lead to an even darker secret—and a confrontation in a city of the dead with something that bullets can’t kill.
THE MASTER OF ILLUSION
Book #3 in the Dr. William Scarlet Mysteries
A tale of supernatural magic and murder. In this famous magic show, your fondest wish can come true! There's just one catch.
Victorian England, 1889. It's London's year of magic. The world's two greatest magicians—‘Marco the Magnificent’ and ‘The Master of Illusion’—are locked in a magic war.
But deaths begin to occur onstage. And when the famous ‘Your Fondest Wish’ act starts to predict the future as well as the past, Scotland Yard medical examiner and psychic Dr. William Scarlet realizes that one of the magicians is practicing more than just ordinary stage tricks and illusions.
YEAR OF THE RIPPERS
Book #2 in the Dr. William Scarlet Mysteries
The supernatural thriller that reveals the identity of Jack the Ripper!
"The novel is threaded with engrossing coverage of the Jack the Ripper murders. . . . The story shines as a procedural, with the author keeping the intrigue at a high by mingling medical and police reports with sharp descriptions of London's murky, claustrophobic streets at night. An unforgettably grim thriller that continues an exemplary series."
— Kirkus Reviews
"Gothic and irresistibly gory. Genard excels in conjuring the darkest alleyways, grisly wounds, and wounded hearts of London's East End, with a doomsday wordplay that will . . . delight."
— BookLife
London, August - November 1888. In London’s East End, prostitutes are being murdered by an unspeakable killer. ‘Jack the Ripper’ has written a taunting letter to the authorities. But the Whitechapel murderer remains as invisible as the night air—his stalking as silent as the screams the murdered women were never able to utter.
Scotland Yard and England’s government are powerless. But police surgeon and psychic Dr. William Scarlet sees a mysterious pattern emerging. Then another series of murders begins. This time, men are the victims: all killed in ways that defy description. And no one but Scarlet and medium Django Pierce-Jones suspects that the two sets of murders are connected to each other . . . and to dark rites long since abandoned. Or maybe not.
RED SEASON
Book #1 in the Dr. William Scarlet Mysteries
A tale of romantic obsession, murder, and the supernatural. Scotland Yard medical examiner and detective Dr. William Scarlet must use his psychic ability to track down a vicious serial killer.
"A top-notch cast and a sublimely rendered historical setting elevate this supernatural mystery."
— Kirkus Reviews
"This standout fiction debut follows Dr. William Scarlet, surgeon for Scotland Yard and man with a secret. His psychic abilities allow him to glimpse the darkest hearts roaming the streets of Victorian London."
— BookLife (Editor's Pick)
London, 1887. It’s Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and the entire country is celebrating. Until the murders begin. First, the madam of a brothel. Next, a private detective—whose mutilated body contains a message. Then children start disappearing, all of them vanishing from the city streets at dusk. And a handsome young artist who is the toast of the art world begins to go mad—while the woman who loves him tries to save him.