Lorraine's blog

The Greatest Moving Abroad Tips in the World

At long last, my book is finally on sale.

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Home Language
Living abroad, it’s natural to find oneself searching for the right word to express a desire or emotion. What I’d never expected, so it came as a shock the first time it happened, was to search in vain for the word or phrase in English.

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Bufflehead Sisters follows the lives of two girls from childhood through to adulthood. The story is told through the eyes of Janet, a girl desperate for a sister. Along comes Sophie, totally unlike Janet in every way and from a damaged family background. A friendship is formed that seems unbreakable.

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Simon Whaley’s excellent book, Running a Writers’ Circle, takes the stress out of setting up and running a writers’ group. Using his considerable experience as chairman of a writers’ circle, Simon has set out everything a prospective group needs to consider.

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Return to Sender

Expatriate writers have problems not experienced by our stay at home cousins, not least the difficulty of supplying stamped addressed envelopes for replies to our precious submissions.

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A little while back I made myself a promise to blog more often. I truly meant it as well, but a glitch in my life said no.

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In an effort to make regular posts to my blog, I'm going to put up my two columns each month. The one for Writing Magazine is aimed at the ex-pat writer, but also contains information all writers should find useful. The other is a humour column for Queensland Writers - and heaven knows, all writers need to see the funny side of being a writer from time to time.

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Writers’ Groups Abroad

A drawback to being a writer abroad is lack of meaningful contact with other writers. It takes another writer to empathise with rejections and to understand the euphoria of an acceptance.

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Hi everyone,

I'm sorry I haven't been around much or commented on the blogs, but life got in the way. I'm going to try to do better from now on.

My children's novel Vlad the Inhaler finished in the number one spot over on the Arts Council site YouWriteOn.com.

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