books

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

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 [...]

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expatriate stuff

Me and my career and publishing secrets - the video

On Sunday, Doris Fuellgrabe interviewed me by the magic of video for the Expat Coach Association website. In this 54 minute film I share my journey starting with my experience, before discussing expat writing and publishing market opportunities, the main reasons expats get into writing, how the publishing industry has changed, where to focus your writing attention, how automation can help you be present in several platforms, how to go from blog to book, and when you know that a book is ‘done’. [...]

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events

The importance of art

Nancy told us how studies were done in which trainee medical doctors were also taught history of art alongside their other work, and how doing so made their diagnoses more accurate. Why? Because they had learned to pay [...]

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books

Brand new title from Summertime – How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain – Safely

Brand new title from Summertime – How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain – Safely, by Nick Snelling, real estate expert and prolific expat author, based in [...]

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tips

Authors - manners matter

Authors need to ensure that they spot every single mention your book receives. The easiest way to ensure you don’t miss any (and thus don’t miss the chance to thank the writer and start to build that all-important relationship) is to set up a Google Alert for the title of your book and another for your name. As soon as you spot you have been mentioned zoom on over there and say [...]

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Interview with Helen Maffini, author of Sammy's Next Move

Helen Maffini is an educational consultant who lives and works all over the world. The author of Sammy’s Next Move, she is passionate about helping third culture kids settle into their new [...]

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books

Creating a bestseller - part III

In this three part series, I am delighted to introduce Linda Janssen of the award-winning Adventures in Expatland as a guest poster. Here, inspired by the amazingly successful Jack Canfield, she shares the nuggets distilled from his recent webinar into bite-sized nuggets of inspirational goodness. Today’s post, the last in the series, is all about the piece of the puzzle that most people shun – promotion! Here [...]

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Writers Abroad Radio Show No 5 - I talk to David Beckett of Amsterdam - the essence

Not only did David write and publish his book in a year, but he also created a book that was perfect for his local market. It is no surprise the David is a marketing man, with years in international marketing for Canon. You would expect a man like him to get so many things right – and boy does he do [...]

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Creating a bestseller - part II

I recently had the opportunity to listen to an informative 90-minute webinar in which Steve Harrison, publisher of ‘Radio/TV Interview Report’, interviewed Jack Canfield of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise. The topic was ‘How to Get Where You Want to Be as an Author/Speaker’, and Canfield shared a wealth of information, insights and tips to help any author market and sell his or her [...]

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interviews & new releases

Writers Abroad radio show No 1 - I interview Julia Simens of Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child

Called Writers Abroad, my show is part of TheWINonline network and each week I will be interviewing new expat authors and writers and sharing tips to help others who share those writing [...]

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