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Author guestposts

Beating the block - tips from Turning Points contributor, Louise Wiles

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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books

Writers Abroad radio show - 21 - Kate Cobb, editor of the Turning Points anthology

Putting 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 [...]

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interviews & new releases

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

Anne runs The Interchange Institute and an international writers’ circle combines 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 called In Their Own Voice- it will open your [...]

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books

Why I love to nurture young talent

how a successful writer nurtures young writing talent by judging competitions and mentoring teenagers to build a [...]

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books

Author to author - meet Tina Quick, author of The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition

I met Tina at the fabulous Families in Global Transition conference a few years ago. Then two years back she hired me to help her to tighten up and publish her book. The Global Nomad’s Guide to University Transition is much needed. I know because I have a global nomad child of my own, who has lived in five countries and headed ‘home’ to university in London this year. My son, Sam, wished he’d had this book before he left. Now those who follow in his footsteps, and their parents, can begin to understand the unique transition that takes place when a TCK (Third Culture Kid) goes to uni.

Here is my interview, yesterday, with Tina, whose book came out last [...]

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expatriate stuff

At last – an international relocation conference in Muscat – with me, Jo Parfitt

It’s been brewing for a while, but at last I can share the good news. Actually, it’s not good news, it’s brilliant news! Along with some of my favourite people, people who are experts in the expat world, I have been invited to my favourite place in the world to be part of the first [...]

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