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 blogging By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on January 24th, 2012
As I was planning the launch and developing my marketing strategy I decided to do a virtual book tour. In my previous life as a PR professional, very often I would include a media tour as part of the recommended PR strategies so I intuitively knew the nuts ‘n bolts of what should go into a ‘blog tour’ and went about making it happen. Honestly, as I was going through the planning and implementation it was refreshing to see that all of the elements were really the same… they just took place in cyberspace instead of in person.
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books By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on January 9th, 2012
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 [...]
Author guestposts By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on January 2nd, 2012
Another way to find inspiration is to toss out an idea and see how people respond to it. In a conversation people will grab an idea and take it in directions you didn’t know existed. If you throw one idea out to 10 people, you’ll get 6 or 7 different kinds of responses, and a couple of those responses will surprise you. [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on December 7th, 2011
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 [...]
interviews & new releases By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on December 6th, 2011
Jae de Wylde began life as a French and German teacher and was a bit of a closet expat and writer. But when her daughter died in 1999, Jae found herself reassessing what she wanted to do with her life and began a new career as a writer. Life has taken her to Spain and Dubai where she found both time and inspiration for a move into fiction. A debilitating illness led her to yet another reassessment and inspired The Thinking Tank, a truly gripping [...]
Author guestposts By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on November 21st, 2011
In this the first of three guest posts from new author, Wendy Williams, author of The Globalisation of Love, we explore her number one tip
Three Writing Tips from a Newly Published Author
Tip #1
Jo Parfitt recently invited me to write three blogs about my experience writing The Globalisation of Love, just published and my first [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on November 17th, 2011
Writing can be isolating. If you have ever thought you wanted to write a book but wanted to do so in a team, then read what newly published, Kate Cobb, has to say about her experience:
‘Writing collaboratively’ seems to me to be an idea fraught with difficulties – how can you actually write something jointly [...]
interviews & new releases By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on November 15th, 2011
Wendy Williams, has been married to an Austrian for 13 years and lives in Vienna. Her new book is published on her wedding anniversary, 13th November. In this interview we discover how she created a new term to apply to those in a multicultural marriage – GloLo – and how Williams cleverly chose to include the wisdom of intercultural and relationship experts in order to ensure her book was well-researched and had the authority it needed. This is a book, rather like Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, in that it is written to be used and enjoyed by real people and not by academics. It is also very, very [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on September 28th, 2011
An American, from Michegan, Sue has been in Japan for 23 years now, is married to a Japanese and has biracial twins, one of whom has cerebral palsy and is deaf. Drawing from her experience and her go for it attitude, Kamata has had many books published by a range of publishers all over the world and continues to be inspired by all she experiences. [...]
events By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on August 23rd, 2011
Come to celebrate the launch of Sunshine Soup, Jo Parfitt’s first novel in the Hague on 1st October 2011 and ask six recently published, local authors, how they achieved their publishing [...]
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