On Saturday the 28th January Calm in Storm, facilitated a 5 hour goal-setting workshop to 17 teenagers from 4 different NGO’s. The Western Cape Network for Peace and Development arranged for the 4 NGO’s; New World Foundation, Amandla EduFootball, Beth Uriel, and Yabonga to send through 15 people to attend, but the response was so overwhelming that we ended up…
When sending out 1 Sheeters and requesting, exposure, reviews and interviews, the chances that the reviewer would want to see a review copy or 2 of the book is very high. As these copies will come from the original print-run, the delivery including postage/couriering must be calculated into the costings. The print run for my…
Now that I had a publisher every one of my friends got to hear that I was about to become a published author of a children’s book, which did come as a surprise to them as I didn’t have any kids…but they still believed me anyway. The publisher came down from JHB and after a…
In 2008 I attended a two day symposium that was organised by IBBY or SCWIBI South Africa where international literary agents and publishers were flown out to discuss market trends and meet local children book authors. A question was posed to a UK based publisher asking who dictates the market, the market or the publisher?…
Back from London shortly after the launch of The Power that’s Ours I knew that I had to get the book out there, reviewed and into the public eye. As I’d already published 1 book The magic that’s Ours I already had contacts who’d reviewed The Magic that’s Ours so the initial work of finding…
Coronavirus isn’t the main challenge anymore, there’s something more – and no this isn’t a conspiracy theory. As per the experts’ instructions, we’ve done what we can do to hopefully keep us out of the virus’s reach. We wear masks, we exercise when we can, we keep social distancing, and we continuously wash our hands….
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