Books
March 2009: TwitterTitters
With Louise Bolotin. We commissioned a selection of new comedy writing, including an exclusive extract from Dave Spikey, using the social networking site Twitter and published it via Lulu.com to raise cash for Comic Relief. My story, Lady Muck's Last Stand was submitted anonymously and selected by the judges.
July 2008: Divorce and Separation, The Essential Guide
Where can you turn when you have to explain to your children that their parents are separating?
What can you say to them to help them to understand what’s happening and that they aren’t to blame ? How can they still feel loved when Mummy and Daddy are no longer speaking?
Linda Jones’ sympathetic and straight-talking guide answers the questions that children ask when their parents go their separate ways.
Whether you are a parent, grandparent, carer or teacher, Linda’s accessible and warm approach will help you reduce and manage the pain and stress for children when a relationship ends.
Discover how to :
• Find the words to explain to even the youngest of children why Mummy and Daddy are going their separate ways
• Help them understand it’s not their fault and that they are very much loved.
• Navigate a course through the emotional minefield of who is going to live where
This book covers the practical, emotional and physical impact of a separation and accompanies you on the sensitive journey afterwards – through living arrangements and dating, to step families and beyond.
November 2007, The Greatest Freelance Writing Tips in the World
Selected reviews:
Newcomers to the trade of professional writing would be wise to invest in this book if only to avoid some of the more common pitfalls that can happen to the inexperienced. But even the most seasoned hacks should find enough in here to inspire them, remind them or encourage them. Louise Bolotin, Society for Editors and Proofreaders.
The Greatest Freelance Writing Tips in the World really does need 'Ever' added to its title, in a niche where there are ten books a penny on the subject of freelance journalism, this is a true gem. If you know anyone thinking of joining the ranks then this is the perfect book for them to read, even better it's one all freelancers should read regardless of whether they've been doing this for a week or several decades as you're bound to learn something, even if you thought you knew it all. Lesley Smith, freelance.
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