Looking for home after a global upbringing
It’s book month over on A Life Overseas!! I love books and I was thrilled be able to share a little about my latest book, Love At The Speed Of Email. I’m also giving away three electronic copies (PDF, MOBI, or EPUB versions available). You can find out how to enter over at the bottom of my post over on A Life Overseas. Love At The Speed Of Email is a memoir – the story of how I met my husband while he was in Papua New Guinea working for a humanitarian organization and I was in Los Angeles working as a stress management trainer. It’s more than a love story, though, it’s a...
Read MoreFor love or money
A friend sent me a tweet recently that said … Bad writing day? Probably not this bad: http://www.salon.com/2012/06/27/my_book_was_a_bad_idea/ This article in Salon tells the story of someone who quit her job to write a book that didn’t sell – a book she came to believe was a bad idea, written for the wrong reasons and in the wrong spirit. It is a raw and honest piece. One part, in particular, jumped out at me. Here, she is writing about the process of writing her book: “…for most of that time I was not working because I was an artist who must write or die, or because I was a...
Read More7 Simple Ways To Promote A Friend’s Book
Do you have a friend who has written a book? Do you want to support them, but aren’t quite sure how to do that? Since I released Love at the Speed of Email, several people have asked how they can best help me get the word out. If you’ve ever wondered how you can effectively support a writer-friend, here are seven simple things to do: 1. Buy the book: It’s sort of obvious, but this one is really important. The number of books authors sell means a lot more than just how much money they stand to make. Book sales influence everything from how well the book shows up in internet...
Read MoreA conversation with Marianne Elliott on Zen Peacekeeper
I’ve been spending too much time with family here (and, yes, too much time holding a coughing baby between the hours of 1 and 3:3oam) to write up the posts currently brewing in my head. But that’s OK, because today I have another treat for you instead. Today I’m being hosted on Marianne Elliott’s blog. Marianne is a writer, human rights advocate and yoga teacher. She is the author of Zen Under Fire (a book about her time working in Afghanistan that I’m looking forward to reading in the very near future) and a Huffington Post contributor. She describes her site as...
Read MoreLove At The Speed Of Email on sale!
I was going to write all these travel-themed posts this week – pithy updates on our three flights to get to Australia, an excerpt from the book, maybe some lessons-learned for parents traveling solo with a baby. But. This is thetime in the last four days I’ve managed to open my laptop. Dominic has a cold and is refusing to eat or drink much or sleep alone (or, for that matter, sleep for more than half an hour at a time, day or night). Right now he’s in the guest bedroom of our long-suffering hosts down here in Canberra. My mother is rocking him and offering him juice. He is wailing. I...
Read MoreIn which Mike and I both answer questions about Love At The Speed Of Email
I’ve been skipping around the blogosphere a bit, dropping in on various people’s blogs to talk about Love At The Speed Of Email. It’s always fun to be a guest in someone else’s blog home, but my stop today was special. Rel was one of the first reviewers of my first book, My Hands Came Away Red, and we’ve kept in touch in the years since then. She usually blogs about fiction, so I’m honoured that she took the time to read Love and have me on her blog. Here’s how she introduced the interview. I “met” Lisa McKay online years ago, thrilled to...
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