The courteous smile of an author se

The courteous smile of an author selling books, signing copies or chatting on television shows can be (26)(DECEIVE)______. Behind the scenes of the book tour that has become as much a part of the modern bestseller as print and paper, the writer may be a (27)(CONTEND)_____ for a Golden Dartboard Award.
This is the Oscar for author (28)_____ (ALLEGE)behaving badly, an informal award nominated by the weary, sometimes (29)(TRAUMA)_____, publicists who travel from city to city garnering and sales. The call themselves (30)(BABY) _____ and wet nurses as they tend to fragile egos and (31)(CONVENTION)_____ demands of authors freed from their word processors.
Among the most feared (32)(ASSIGN)_____for the publicist are the feminist writer who is remembered for yelling at her publicists in public and in (33)(COLOR)_____ language, and the thriller writer whose publicists report that they have instruction from his publisher to speak only when spoken to. One (34)(SURVIVE)_____ of a tour with him, who nominated him for a Golden Darboad, says “He treats us all as his inferiors”. However, publicists on his most recent tour say that he was an absolute (35)_____(ENJOY)