Becoming involved in the Turning Points project has made me realize that we all have worthwhile story and message to share. I may not write brilliantly, but if I don’t step out and share what I write, then the time I take to write is wasted. [...]
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 booksPutting together a collaborative book is not easy. From experience I know that the only way you can make this work is to have a strong, resourceful editor. Kate Cobb, a Brit who has emigrated to France, is that editor. Orchestrating a team of 25 collaborators, using the internet to the full, Kate has done a sterling job. Perhaps the cleverest by-product of this book is the fact that each of its contributors has now become its promoter and [...] booksHere is a book on the sticky subject of actually making a living as a writer. Hard hitting, tough talking, this book is frighteningly frank but also crammed with brilliant ideas, out of the box thinking and what boils down to over 100,000 words of common sense. If I were to have written this book, it is exactly what I would have [...] booksIn 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 [...] booksI 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 [...] booksIn 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 shres the nuggets distilled from his recent webinar into bite-sized nuggets of inspirational [...] inspirationThe work began to flow. People did bang on my door, asking to work with me. Hundreds of people. I began to expand my service in two directions – upwards, towards publishing and downwards, towards finding their voice and their story – and again I watched my business grow. Clearly, I had been flogging a dead horse when I had been down the career route, then. Or had [...] expatriate stuffTiffany Jansen, American in Holland and blogger at Clogs and Tulips, recently asked me to guestpost about both of my specialisms – how to create a portable career as an expat writer. I was delighted to oblige, and in doing so I compiled a list of six top tips for wannabe expat [...] booksOne of the first things that I teach the students attending my book-writing workshops is that they need to have the authority to write about their chosen topic. I say they need to have ‘been there, done that and got the [...] expatriate stuffWhen I was a kid I wanted to be a writer ‘when I grew up’. But Miss Butler, my careers’ advisor (who was actually the biology teacher), told me that writing was not a real career, so I shelved my dreams. I was lucky. It took me less than 10 years to get back on [...] |
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