Author to Author – meet Alice Griffin of Tales from a Travelling [...]
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 booksA children’s book to help 4-8 year olds come to terms with moving to another country. At last an expat [...] booksAuthor to author - meet Natalie Tollenaere, author of The Art of Possibilities & L'Art des PossiblesSummertime Publishing expat author, Natalie Tollenaere, talks about her books simultaneously published in French and [...] interviews & new releasesSkip to the 7th minute and enjoy Niamh’s interview, in English, on TV West
booksJan Hurst-Nicholson. Not only is she an expat writer, but she is also a humorous novelist and has recently published a novel on Kindle. In the couple of months since its launch, she has sold tens of books daily and her book has now reached number 3 in the Amazon bestseller ranking. [...] inspirationWhen I am helping my students and mentees to write I often find myself reminding them that whatever they write must have a point. It must have a purpose, a reason to live. The world has to be a better place for having those words in it. I believe that poets have to be wise. They have to be insightful and to be able to write words that resonate or provoke. Pip writes of dark subjects such as suicide, poverty and self-harming. Cooper Clarke writes about hire cars, streets and shirts. Every poem deserves to be there. [...] articlesWhen you are a new writer you are unlikely to have the networks you need. I have a network of over 5000 in my address book and have the contact details of people who are an authority on every topic about which I write. I’m not simply ‘lucky’ though. No, I have built this network easily and quickly, by attending the best conferences I can and where experts give workshops and keynotes on the topics about which I am passionate. I take copious notes while these gurus are speaking and focus on what I call quote spotting. Yes, I collect the quotes these people say, make a note of who said this and when and where and then use them in my [...] booksI first ‘met’ Debbie Nicol before the summer, when I was invited to drop in on the Dubai-based, Flamingo Writers’ Circle meeting via Skype. So there I was, sitting at the same table as the other writers, only I was there virtually, on a computer screen! It was amazingly effective. After that session I fixed [...] 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 [...] booksI am always thrilled when I discover a new publishing concept. And last week I met Karen Joubert and Monica Vaccari, who devised the concept for the My The Hague photobook. With Karen in charge of text and Monica in charge of images, the pair of expat wives put together a simply beautiful book of [...] |
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