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Writers Abroad radio show – I talk to Anne Copeland about the book born out of an intercultural writers’s group

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:14:41 +0000

I have known Dr Anne Copeland for about ten years now thanks to the fact that she is on the board of the Families in Global Transition conference that I have attended eight times. This year Anne was the opening keynote speaker and left us all open-mouthed when we heard about the international writers’ club she has run from her home in Brookline, for many years. Anne runs The Interchange Institute. An organisation that offers sterling cross-cultural training programs and also undertakes research into the expatriate experience. Her survey, Many Women, Many Voices, has been an inspiration to many and those who read my articles.

But this writers’ circle was different, combining as it does, English-language learning for newcomer foreigners, support and intercultural know-how. Anne has compiled the stories into a book that is far more than an anthology – it will open your eyes.

To hear about this unique book please …

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Congratulations Simone Costa-Eriksson for Moving Abroad: the mission of detective mike

Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:12:35 +0000

Nothing can beat the moment you hold your first book in your hand. Yesterday, my client, Simone Costa-Eriksson, shared that moment with me, when she opened her first box of her first book: Moving Abroad: the mission of detective Mike. A children’s book for 4-9 year old mobile kids.

“So many doubts have crossed my mind these last few months while working to finish the book!
It is was almost like being pregnant! Is the baby going to look fine? Will it look like me?…

Now it is here, I am holding it in my arms, and it does look great! It confirms to me it was worth all the stress!

Thank you again for all your support in helping me deliver this baby!” she wrote.

It was a wonderful book to work on and I really look forward to meeting Simone in the flesh at Families in Global Transition next week, in Houston, where her book will be let loose on the world.

Find out more about Mike and Simone at her website www.interculturalplus.com

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