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Writers Abroad radio show 16 - Jeremy Holland, author, blogger, hypergraph

Writers Abroad radio show 15 – Jeremy Holland, author, blogger, [...]

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Interview with Jeremy Holland, hypergraph and author of From Barcelona

There just seemed to be a market for fiction centered on a city. A good example is Shadow of the Wind by Zafrón. You say, Barcelona, and people immediately cite that book. I just wanted to show different sides of the city beyond mysterious book sellers.

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Writers Abroad Radio Show no 10 - I talk about my new novel, Sunshine Soup

Global writer and journalist, Renata Harper, interviews me about the agony and the ecstasy of writing my upcoming novel, Sunshine Soup. I talk about how long it took, how I took a risk, how hard it was to write and how I coped not only with the knockbacks but that well-known moment, when you can see the finish line, and suddenly think that every word you wrote was utter rubbish. See, I’m normal, just like everyone [...]

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Author to author interview with Mike Harling of Postcards from Across the Pond

Mike Harling loves to write. He is an American who ended up on the other side of the pond because he fell for a Scottish woman. I guess that makes him a love immigrant. Mike saw the funny side of life in the UK and began to blog. The blog became a book and today he has extended his blog to write in collaboration with the British author of Rules Britannia, who went the other way, to the US and who goes by the handle ExpatMum. Together, Mike and Toni Hargis write Pond Parleys and have quite a following. Here, I asked him about his blook, Postcards from Across the Pond, and as you will see, he keeps the sense of humour that makes him so [...]

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I get interviewed for my Writers Abroad Radio Show

Jo Parfitt is interviewed by Rachel Flower of Live Your Brilliance, about writing, healing and her career as a [...]

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Writers Abroad radio show 7 - being funny with author Debs Fletcher

It is hard to be funny in real life and on the page. Debbie Fletcher, who wrote her hilarious memoir, Bitten by Spain, manages to do so though. Listen to my interview with her for my Writers Abroad radio show and just enjoy her frankness and her wit. [...]

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Author to author interview with Gabrielle Collison of Buying Property in Portugal

Unlike many of the memoirs I feature on my blog, this is a different kettle of fish. It is a ‘how to’ book. How to books tend to sell better than memoirs because they solve a problem. If you were looking to buy a property in Portugal the chances are you would type something like ‘buy house Portugal’ into a search engine and lo! Gabby’s book would appear. That a second edition will be out any day now is testament to the fact that how to books are popular. [...]

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Writers Abroad Radio Show no 2 - I chat to Linda Janssen, a new writer about her rapid success

I only met Linda six month ago and in that time she has learned to write articles, blogs, books and life story. She grabbed her goals by the scruff of the neck and and went for it, blogging 5-7 times a week, getting articles placed worldwide and she is now working on a couple of books. Linda is a role model for any new writer out there who doubts they can do really do it. An American in Holland, Linda is new to expat life but she embraced every challenge and opportunity and is now on the way to cracking [...]

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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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Author to Author - meet Alice Griffin of Tales from a Travelling Mum

Author to Author – meet Alice Griffin of Tales from a Travelling [...]

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