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Writers Abroad radio show 32 – Linda Lodding, children’s author, The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:01 +0000

New Yorker, Linda Lodding, talks to Jo Parfitt about how she found a US publisher for her children’s book while living abroad. Find out what you need to know about word counts, working with an editor and illustrator and how she found support while living overseas from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Discover how Linda went about making herself attractive to a publisher (Flashlight Press), and be inspired by her amazing, successful journey.

See Linda’s book trailer, here:

You can listen to the show here.

Brilliant booktrailer, brilliant book, Jack Scott’s Perking the Pansies

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:40:26 +0000

Book trailers are THE way to get attention for your book. Jack Scott, author of Perking the Pansies, grabs you by the short and curlies with his… Hot off the press from Bodrum, Turkey.

OK, maybe I am biased – after all I’m it – but it is rather a fine piece of work. Well done, Jack (and Liam). You managed to make your trailer as unputdownable as the book.

I interview expat author Matt Krause about his Turkish love story A Tight Wide Open Space

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:40:38 +0000

Matt Krause is a 42-year-old American man who met a Turkish woman on an airplane to Hong Kong, fell in love, and moved to Istanbul. His website is http://www.mattkrause.comand now http://www.heathenpilgrim.com too, and my Facebook page is http://facebook.com/mattkrause1969.

When I first heard about Matt’s book, the title intrigued me. His answer, as to why he picked it, will make any expat (like me) smile:

“I thought life was going to be wide open and free-to-be-redefined after I moved to another country. Turns out that’s not true at all. I was the same person in Turkey that I was in the US. It took a while for me to realize how cool that is. It means you can go anywhere in the world and not lose yourself. It also means you can redefine yourself at home just as well as elsewhere.”

Tell me about your book. What is it about? Can you describe it in just a few sentences?

The book is called A Tight Wide-open Space. It is about my time in Turkey, mostly about my first couple years there. The book is a memoir, sure, but Istanbul and moving to another country are a whole lot more interesting than I am, so the book is mostly about Istanbul and moving to another country.

Why did you write it?

I wrote that book because I wanted to get those stories down on paper. I figured in forty years I could be an 80-year-old man telling forty-year-old stories, or I could put the stories down on paper and then move on and go make new stories. The latter sounded like a better use of the next forty years of my life, so I chose the latter.

What qualifies you to write this book?

Another book I wrote, Soapbox, starts out with an essay about an old friend of mine from high school, someone who passed away in an accident 10 years ago. His sister, whom I hadn’t seen or spoken to in 25 years, wrote to me a couple months ago to say thanks for helping her find another piece of her brother. Last week a man wrote to me saying that his brother is dying of cancer, and another essay in Soapbox helped him find strength. A couple months ago a woman wrote to me about how a single phrase I use in A Tight Wide-open Space reassures her that everything’s going to be okay in her own life. Last month one man liked ATWOS so much he bought 25 copies to give to friends as Christmas gifts. The other day I was telling someone about the Heathen Pilgrim project, and he immediately started remembering road trips he took through California 35 years ago, and his eyes lit up with youthful excitement. I haven’t even begun the Heathen Pilgrim walk, and I’m already inspiring people.

When people stop telling me my writing adds something to their lives, I will know I’m not qualified anymore. In the meantime, I will write, because I can help people that way.

Why do you think your book needed to be written? What will it do for other people? How will it help? Did you have any competition?

My book needed to be written because I needed to write it. There was no bigger purpose. I just had to get it out of the way so I could move on and do other things with my life.

What will it do for other people? Everyone seems to get something different out of it. Some people like the descriptions of a foreign city, because those descriptions add color and flavor to their days. Other people like the chapter about my father-in-law, because it makes them feel closer to their own relatives. Some people like the parts about my business activities in Turkey, because they inspire them to be more entrepreneurial. Everyone picks up on something different. One person says Chapter X is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but Chapter Y is boring. The next person says Chapter Y rocks, and Chapter X is the boring one. That’s one thing about books I hadn’t realized, at least not up so close — that how people respond to a book says more about them than it does about the book.

I have lots of competition: TV, movies, music, Facebook, kids that need to be fed, bills that need to be paid. Not to mention authors who are already famous and proven. The ways people spend their time are infinite, and they are all my book’s competition.

Who do you think will read your book? What made you think that there was a market for it? If your book has been out for a while, what proof do you have that you were right?

Different people read this book for different reasons. Some people read this book because they lived in Turkey decades ago and just like to hear someone talk about it. Other people read this book because they dream about moving to another country, and want to read about someone else who did it. Other people read this book because they don’t think girls can be picked up on airplanes, and they wonder how it’s done (hint: clumsy works just fine).

I didn’t care whether there was a market for this book or not. I wrote it for a different reason. Turns out there is a market for it though, since I’ve sold a few.

It does not matter how good a book is, or how good your writing is if no one knows about it. What steps have you taken or do you plan to take to promote your book? Are you a speaker or trainer? Do you have a blog? A website? A newsletter? Do you use Facebook, Twitter or other social media tools? What about press releases and sending out review copies and free articles? Have you had any other ideas? Which methods do you think work best and can you give me any examples?

Promoting a book takes more time than actually writing it. As I was writing this book I read a lot about how other people marketed their books, and I thought, “Wow, that sounds like a lot of work!” I figured if I was going to put that much work into promoting my book, I may as well piggyback it on something else I wanted to do anyway. So I dusted off an old dream I’ve had for the past 20 years, to travel from Cork, Ireland, to Ho Chi Minh City, and broke it down into something more doable (1500 miles walking across Turkey and Syria). I’m calling that project Heathen Pilgrim, and a couple books are going to come out of that. ATWOS will ride that project’s promotional coattails.

That aside, I’m also promoting the book through the normal channels — blog, guest posts on other peoples’ blogs, interviews, Facebook, Twitter, etc. But for every one person who does everything you’re supposed to do and becomes rich and famous, there are a hundred people who do everything you’re supposed to do and get nothing in return. So do the things the experts tell you to do, but don’t worry about it too much, because you still only have about a 0.00001% chance of success.

How did you publish your book? Did you find an agent, a publisher or did you publish it yourself? Please describe your process and tell us how you found the experience. Is there anything you would definitely do again or never do again?

I published it myself, using Createspace (print-on-demand for production, Amazon for distribution). Finding an agent and a publisher is good but time-consuming. As with anything time-consuming, ask yourself if there is a higher-value use of your time. If the answer is yes, do that other thing instead. If the answer is no, find an agent and a publisher. In my case, I could meet my modest sales and distribution expectations on my own, and I had other projects I wanted to get started on. But for other people or in other circumstances, finding an agent and a publisher is the way to go.

What was your biggest challenge regarding the writing of your book? How have you overcome that?

My biggest challenge was eating healthy food and exercising. I ate way too much pepperoni pizza for my own good, and I went from running three times a week to running just about never. Writing a book isn’t free, the resources have to be pulled from one account or another. I chose to draw down the diet and exercise accounts while I was writing ATWOS. There’s no way to avoid paying a price. You just decide which accounts you want to pay it from.

Now you have written this book, what has writing it done for you, your family, your self-esteem or your business?

In addition to allowing me to retire to a Caribbean island where I drive a speedboat filled with bikini-clad models, writing this book has allowed me to, well, say I’ve written a book. That’s actually a pretty cool thing to be able to do though. It gives you some street cred when you start talking about a hare-brained idea. I guess people figure anyone who is crazy enough to write a book is crazy enough to do just about anything.

If you were to give advice to someone else who is thinking about writing a book, what would be your number one tip?

My number one tip would be don’t write one book, write a bunch of them. If you only shoot for one book, that book is going to be your only chance to write a good one, and you’re going to put so much pressure on yourself that you never stop tweaking it, you never finish it. If you plan on writing five books instead, book #1 isn’t your one and only chance to get it right, it’s what stands in the way of book #2.

Here are a couple bonus tips:

Tip #2 is to read 30 books for every one that you write. Whatever problem you’re trying to solve, someone has probably already solved it. See how they did it.

Tip #3 is to get that first book written and out there, because it’s a lot easier to see your mistakes after you’ve made them. If you haven’t made mistakes yet, you have nothing but shadows to box.

And finally, how can people buy your book, in what formats, and what does it cost? Please include any links if you have them.

A Tight Wide-open Space and Soapbox are both available on Amazon.com, in paperback or Kindle. ATWOS costs between US$5 and US$12, and Soapbox costs about half as much. The links…

ATWOS:

www.amzn.com/1460910435

Soapbox:

www.amzn.com/1463791275

The Amazon.co.uk links for the Kindle…

ATWOS:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tight-Wide-open-Space-Finding-ebook/dp/B0055KHEJU/

Soapbox:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soapbox-Miscellaneous-musings-ebook/dp/B005G9ATGK/

Writers Abroad radio show 31 – Jack Scott, author of Perking the Pansies

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:01:57 +0000

Jack Scott recently published his memoir, Perking the Pansies – Jack and Liam move to Turkey. In this candid interview he talks about how the book began as a blog after he and his partner, Liam, expatriated, and the methods he used to grow a blog that began seeing 5,000 hits a month and that has now increased to 13-18,000 a month. We discuss issues such as how he feels about baring his soul to the world, narcissism and why he chose to write, from the outset, under a pseudonym. This lively interview will interest anyone thinking of writing a memoir and will show how to use the power of social media and the blogosphere to achieve success.

You can find Jack on http://www.jackscott.info and http://www.perkingthepansies.com

Listen to the radio show here

Why writing a book may be the best thing you ever do

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:17:39 +0000

Back in December I was invited to do a webinar on how to write a book for the European Professional Women’s Network. The sound quality is not brilliant, but you can hear me and the slides really add to the experience. The presentation takes about an hour followed by questions and answers.

Experience the webinar here to learn about:

Why writing a book will boost your brand
How writing a book can make you money
What matters
A bit about self-publishing methods
Where to start
and much more

Authors – your own story is important too

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:53:41 +0000

For years I have been banging on about how important it is to share your own story if you are to have a good chance of attracting a publisher, an agent and later readers.

Your story matters.

Would you even consider reading Jack Scott’s Perking the Pansies, about his move to Turkey as a gay man, if he were neither gay nor lived in Turkey?

Would you pick up one of Dr Phil’s books if you did not already trust he was a good psychotherapist?

Would you buy a cookbook written by someone who couldn’t boil an egg?

Exactly!

When I first read the manuscript for The Thinking Tank, by Jae de Wylde, I knew her ‘back story’. I knew she had lost a daughter and that she suffered from a painful, debilitating illness. When I cried with the protagonist, Sarah, I cried all the more for knowing Jae’s story. When I laughed, I laughed louder. But Jae did not want to dwell on her ‘back story’ and we omitted some facts from her about the author page.

As sales of The Thinking Tank grew, and I watched Jae sell hundreds of books at each of the many book signings she set up in England, I recognised that this was indeed a good book, and that it was selling without the readers knowing about her grief and pain.

But, here in Holland, as people who had read the book came up to me to talk about it, I found myself sharing some of Jae’s real story with them and watched their eyes widen. I realised that had they known some of this before they read the book, like mine, their experience would have been even better.

Since the launch of The Thinking Tank, Jae has bravely decided to start a new blog, entitled Life’s Crappy Stuff, and in which she shares stories of how she has overcome many set backs. She does this in an upbeat, self-effacing and witty style that inspires her readers. Slowly, Jae is realising that her truth does matter – a lot.

Then, this week, she did the bravest thing yet and shared her story, her real story, about her divorce, her illness and losing Rowena, in Gulf News, Friday magazine. She also shared how a move to Dubai and discovering bellydance changed her life.

If you have not read The Thinking Tank, then be sure to read this article before you do. And if you have read it, then, reflect back on the novel in the light of what you learn. You will be enriched and inspired. Trust me.

Interview with Jack Scott, of No 1 bestseller, Perking the Pansies

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:27:42 +0000

I am thrilled to share this interview with my latest published author, Jack Scott. Perking the Pansies was published just before Christmas and sold more books in its first week than any other book I published last year. Earlier this month, Amazon showed this great memoir at No 1 in gay and lesbian travelogues.

To find out why he wrote it and how he created the following that has ensured great book sales, read on…

Jack Scott was born on an English army base in 1960, spent part of his childhood in Malaysia as a forces brat, idled his way through Grammar school, became a shop boy along Chelsea’s trendy King’s Road and then eventually settled for the dull security of a local government career. By his late forties, passionately dissatisfied with suburban life and middle management, his civil partner, Liam, and he abandoned the sanctuary of liberal London for an uncertain future in Turkey. In 2010, Jack started an irreverent narrative about our new life called Perking the Pansies; it became one of the most popular English language blogs in Turkey and has now spawned a book.

The book: http://www.jackscott.info

The blog: http://www.perkingthepansies.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jackscottbodrum

Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/perking the pansies, the book

Twitter: @jackscottbodrum

Tell me about your book. What is it about? Can you describe it in just a few sentences?

The book covers the first year of my life with Liam in Turkey: a culture-curious gay couple from London on a bumpy rite of passage in a Muslim country. I describe the oddballs, VOMITs, vetpats, emigreys, semigreys, debauched waiters and middle England miseries we encountered, the fun we had along the way and our subsequent move to the heart of liberal Bodrum, a place we fell in love with. It’s an irreverent look at expat life in Turkey with a right royal dose of misery and joy, bigotry and enlightenment, betrayal and loyalty, friendship, love, earthquakes, birth, adoption and a senseless murder.

Why did you write it?

From the moment we came ashore, we encountered so many extraordinary people and situations that I just had to start writing about them. You could say that the book wrote itself. More importantly, I felt I had something fresh to say about expat living, about Turkey and about living as a gay man in a Muslim country. The book is not about being gay as such; it’s about two people, in love, living in Turkey as expats – who happen to be gay. I thought our story was worth sharing.

What qualifies you to write this book?

Well, the book is based on a series of astonishing events that we actually encountered, so I guess that immediately qualifies me to write about them! I have travelled around Turkey since my mid-thirties and have a good understanding of the country’s history and what makes it the place it is today. Finally, as an out gay man (I dropped out of the womb waving my jazz hands and screaming I am what I am) I know a thing or two about being on the outside looking in: I feel I’m in a good position to comment on life as one half of a same-sex couple living in a Muslim country.

Why do you think your book needed to be written? What will it do for other people? How will it help? Did you have any competition?

I wrote the book for many reasons, not least because Liam and I are rare creatures in this part of the world. Gay culture is largely invisible and underground in Turkey and I hope our story may, in some small way, raise the profile of gay men and women here. It also demonstrates that it is perfectly possible to live happily within a different culture – by respecting that culture but still standing by the principles that make you who you are. Finally, it felt important to prick the pomposity and bigotry of some of our fellow expats – as well as celebrate the wonderful friendships we’ve formed here. As far as I’m aware, there is no other book of its kind on the market.

Who do you think will read your book? What made you think that there was a market for it? If your book has been out for a while, what proof do you have that you were right?

Many expat books about Turkey (and elsewhere) are about building the dream in a foreign field set against a magnificent backdrop of history, culture and landscape. I wanted to write something completely different, so I hope the book stands out from the crowd. Perking the Pansies also provides an alternative expat perspective of a British gay couple in a Muslim land. It’s not been done before and I hope people will find that interesting. Our story rattles along at quite a pace so I hope it will appeal to anyone who simply likes a good rollicking read. Initial sales seem to indicate that the book has broad appeal. Fingers crossed.

I am a qualified trainer and a former business manager and these skills seem to have equipped me to plan and think strategically. This particular roller coaster ride began with the blog and I grew the readership by engaging with social media. The book came later. At the beginning I was a complete novice and fumbled around trying different ways to get the message out. I quickly learned that Facebook and Twitter were the big hitters for increasing an audience and for raising a blog’s SEO (search engine optimization). SEO is important because if your website doesn’t appear on the first few pages of a search result (and by this I mean Google as it’s the only one that matters) then it’s hardly worth being on the internet at all. Most other social networks are small fry, but I have found that Stumbleupon and Reddit also helpful to boost my readership from time to time.

The key to a successful blog is good, fresh content (another SEO trick), a strong appealing theme and active engagement with your audience and network. This takes hard graft. I put the hours in and it worked for me. When the book was published I already had the infrastructure to help launch it. The trick now is to break out of the blogosphere and appeal to a wider audience. This is where a strong partnership with my publisher comes in. Oh yes, that’ll be you, Jo!

Several readers said that they thought there was a book buried among the blog posts. Eventually, I did too, and set about trying to write one and finding an agent or a publisher. You may recall that I found you on Twitter purely by chance. This is another example of the power of social networking. I emailed you. You responded almost immediately. I sent you some material, you critiqued it. I sent you more. You critiqued it again. I sent you five chapters. You said, “Let’s go for it.” That’s more or less how it happened. You took a chance and I’m rather grateful that you did!

What was your biggest challenge regarding the writing of your book? How have you overcome that?

I’d say the biggest challenge was ensuring the book had a plot that readers would find convincing and engaging enough to make them turn the page. I wanted a book with pace and very little ‘fat.’ One of the first things you taught me was to dump storylines and characters that weren’t key to the plot or didn’t add interesting flavour. I tackled this by creating a story board, much like constructing a film, and quickly found parts of the draft plot that were either superfluous or in the wrong place.

Now you have written this book, what has writing it done for you, your family, your self-esteem or your business?

It’s early days but I do feel a huge sense of achievement. It’s virtually impossible to work legitimately in Turkey as an expat; writing the book has kept my ageing brain active and prevented me from propping up the local bars (well, most of the time). Liam has supported me through the whole, painful process. He’s my whip-cracking taskmaster, poring over every word and pontificating over every sentence. There was a creative tension in the air and the occasional brouhaha over lunch. It’s genuinely been a labour of love for both of us. Becoming a published author has opened up a new (and scary) world for me. The possibilities are endless.

If you were to give advice to someone else who is thinking about writing a book, what would be your number one tip?

That’s easy. Get honest feedback about your idea and your initial drafts, especially from people who don’t know you; don’t work in a vacuum, don’t ask your friends or loved ones. They will lie (though, Liam was brutally honest).

And finally, how can people buy your book, in what formats, and what does it cost? Please include any links if you have them.

The book is available to buy in paperback or on Kindle from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, on-line and WH Smiths, Waterstones and any good on-line store or available to order from any good bookstore near you. Alternatively, if you order through my website, I make a few extra pennies from it. No pressure.

Blog tour secrets from @home in Dubai author, Anne O’Connell

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:24:13 +0000

This week, Anne O’Connell’s brand new book, @home in Dubai, is launched! Anne is a PR consultant, lives in Phuket, Thailand, and is running a PR campaign from her home by the sea. Inevitably, the backbone of her campaign will be a blog tour. In this ten minute interview, Anne shares the secrets of her virtual book tour, taking place this week all over the world.

Listen to her interview here

Writers Abroad radio show 28 – Anne O’Connell PR pro publishes At Home in Dubai

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:02:56 +0000

When a professional writer and PR expert writes a book you can bet that she knows what she is doing. Anne O’Connell began with the end in mind when she began work on @home in Dubai, a book that details the nitty gritty of getting through red tape in this popular Emirate. She began with a survey and is enlisted the help of countless expats living there already in order to create this comprehensive book. To find out from the experts how to get your marketing right you cannot afford to miss this interview here.

Interview with brand new author, Wendy Williams, on The Globalisation of Love

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:40:09 +0000

Wendy Williams is the author of the brand new, just released, hot off the press The Globalisation of Love, a book about multicultural romance and marriage. She has lived in six different countries and worked internationally for 18 years. Canadian and with an Austrian husband, she has been married for thirteen years, lives in Vienna, Austria and has one daughter.

See: www.globalisationoflove.com.

www.Facebook.com/globalisationoflove.com

twitter @globalisationoflove

Tell me about your book. What is it about? Can you describe it in just a few sentences?

The Globalisation of Love is about the whirls and twirls, the quirks and perks, the frustrations and the fun of a multicultural relationship. The book is based on dozens of interviews with multicultural couples from around the world. It includes chapters on multicultural weddings, religion, race, food, language and children. It is both humorous and factual and I include personal anecdotes from my own experience in a multicultural family. There is a world of romance happening out there and it is all captured in The Globalisation of Love.

Why did you write it?

Three reasons. Firstly, globalisation has been the buzz word of the past 20 years, yet little attention is given to the most profound influence of globalisation, which is the effect it has on people. People from everywhere are falling in love with people from everywhere else. Secondly, multiculturalism is another term that is bandied about to describe some kind of pesky nuisance to society, yet multicultural couples and families are constantly increasing and becoming a social norm. Thirdly, multicultural couples, what I call GloLo couples, get a lot of negative attention, like they are all destined to fail. In fact, most GloLo couples describe their multicultural relationship and experience as enlightening, enriching and the most amazing journey to take through matrimonial life.

What qualifies you to write this book?

I grew up in a multicultural family – a British-Ukrainian-Canadian family. I have been married to an Austrian for 13 years and have been living and working internationally for 18 years. What really qualifies me to write the book however, is the ability to see humour in the challenges of a GloLo relationship.

Why do you think your book needed to be written? What will it do for other people? How will it help? Did you have any competition?

It needed to be written for two main reasons. Firstly, it is important to recognise that a multicultural relationship is inherently different than a monocultural relationship. Multicultural couples have all the issues that exist in monocultural relationships, as well as whatever colourful combination of culture, language, religion and ethnicity the couple bring into their marriage. Secondly, the book outlines the issues in a multicultural marriage, so it helps GloLo couples to identify hot spots in the relationship that are culturally based. I wanted other GloLo couples to know that they are not alone and that there is a funny side to a GloLo marriage.

Yes, there is competition. There are many wonderful books about multicultural dating and marriage however The Globalisation of Love is the first book that is deliberately written with humour and wit.

Who do you think will read your book? What made you think that there was a market for it? If your book has been out for a while, what proof do you have that you were right?

Multicultural GloLo couples, and their friends and family will be interested in and benefit from reading The Globalisation of Love. Almost every knows someone or is related to someone in a GloLo relationship, therefore the book has a broad appeal. It is a topic that is starting to receive more media attention on multicultural royal weddings and GloLo celebrities, so it is becoming very chic to have an international marriage.

The book is literally ‘hot off the press’ so the media promotional plan is still in the design phase. I haven’t even had time to have a book launch party yet! There is a new website and blog at www.globalisationoflove.com and you can follow The Globalisation of Love on Facebook and Twitter. I will be interviewed for different ezines and radio talk shows. I also look forward to the book signing and reading events. It is nice to be with people and talk about their experience in a GloLo relationship. All the events will be posted on the website calendar.

I took a middle road between self-publishing and traditional publishing and hired a book mentor and publisher. It was the right route for me to take because I had a ‘book coach’ to help me ‘find my voice’, develop a consistent writing style and create a format for the book and then to deal with the administrative side of publishing by listing the book on Amazon and writing the press release. Writing a book takes a long time and it is also a ‘personal journey’. Having a coach along the way was a great help!

What was your biggest challenge regarding the writing of your book? How have you overcome that?

The biggest challenge for me is that writing a book is a lonely path to go in life. I loved conducting the interviews with GloLo couples from all over the world but I spent most of my time writing, re-writing and re-writing some more. I overcame the lonely factor by taking my ‘office’ to the Vienna coffee shops, hotel lobbies and even Starbucks. It’s a book about people and I liked having people in the background while I worked.

Now you have written this book, what has writing it done for you, your family, your self-esteem or your business?

The most noticeable difference for me and my family is that since I finished writing the book, I now take weekends off!

If you were to give advice to someone else who is thinking about writing a book, what would be your number one tip?

Write about something that you are passionate about and like to talk about or read about all day long.

And finally, how can people buy your book, in what formats, and what does it cost? Please include any links if you have them.

The Globalisation of Love is available on Amazon and via www.expatbookshop.com for €19,99. An ebook will be available soon too.