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Great Stories Inspire Us to See the World in a Different Way

18/9/2024

Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore, author of The Guilty Can't Say Goodbye talks to You Magazine from The News about her writing journey and what makes a great story.

Great stories are not just those that entertain us, but also those that teach us or inspire us to see the world in a different or a new way. Great stories engage us emotionally and continue to ‘speak’ to us, long after the last page is read.

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Paddy Hartnett's Latest Proofreading Projects

23/8/2024

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Check out the latest projects from Paddy Hartnett, proofreader at Summertime Publishing and Springtime Books.

Paddy Hartnett's Latest Proofreading Projects

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Thongs or Flip Flops? Out Now on Summertime Publishing

22/7/2024

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Thongs or Flip Flops?

Australian kids overseas and what comes next

Tanya Crossman & Kath Williams

There are about one million Australian citizens living outside Australia, including families with children. Some are sent abroad for work – with DFAT, the ADF, NGOs, multinational companies, or missionary organisations. Others take jobs in their fields outside Australia, and still others move to be near family in other parts of the world.

Australian kids growing up outside Australia are ‘Third Culture Kids’(TCKs). They build childhood memories and emotional connections in other places and communities. Their concept of what it means to be ‘Australian’ will be impacted by these experiences, and their re-entry to Australia is often unexpectedly rocky.

Thongs or Flip-Flops? provides Australian TCKs and Australian families living overseas with everything they need to know in order to thrive long term, no matter what paths they take in life.

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The Guilty Can't Say Goodbye: Out Now!

20/4/2024

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Three women. Three secrets. Three broken lives.

Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore

Can we ever escape our past?

When three women move to Portugal and are thrown together by happenstance, little do they know how dramatically their lives are about to change.

Fatima Khan is a Pakistani writer with a gift for languages, a German husband, a ten-year-old daughter, and a determination to escape her mother’s clutches. Kate Miller is a driven, no-nonsense American diplomat who needs to get her way, even as her marriage flounders. Abena Nyator is a warm and kind-hearted Ghanaian entrepreneur consumed with self-doubt. Each of them looking for a fresh start. Each of them haunted by their past. Each of them burdened by horrendous secrets.

A visit by Fatima’s mother threatens to derail her new life and forces her to face her demons. And when all-consuming guilt gets the better of Kate and Abena, each must make a momentous decision. Set against a sweeping international backdrop—Lisbon, Singapore, Karachi, Houston, Copenhagen, Berlin, Dubai, Brighton, and Accra—the three women are forced to confront an inconvenient truth: the guilty can’t say goodbye.

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Meet Your Muse - Out Now!

26/3/2024

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The Dance of Creativity

Charise M. Hoge, MA & Kathleen M. Kroska, MA

Whether you believe it or not, you are creative.
You have been making a life for yourself all along.

Tap into your innate creativity when you meet your Muse. Quiet yourself, go inward, and listen for her cues––inspiration that seems like magic. Your Muse continually entices you to join in the dance of creativity. In this unique, empowering book, you are invited to be more intentional and bring this partnership to light.

Let writing prompts, experiential practices, art, and poetry guide your journey through the five components of living the creative life.

Explore, expound, express, shape, cajole, and roll with the creative spirit that lives in all of us.

Meet Your Muse.

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Helped me understand how to use my mind, spirit, emotions, and physical body to express myself in words, art, and dance.”

Lucinda LaRee
Fitness Entrepreneur, CirqularX365 Creator/Lifestyle Guide

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I especially liked that it did not pressure the reader; it felt like a loving invitation.”

Jeneen Piccuirro
multi-passionate artist, founder of Soul Voyage Studio

Deeply inspiring and joyfully captivating. What a gift!”

Laurie Mattila
Discovery Writing Instructor

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The Guilty Can't Say Goodbye - Coming Soon

21/3/2024

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Three women. Three secrets. Three broken lives.
Can we ever escape our past?

Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore

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Rich, multi-layered and gripping … a novel to be cherished”

Awais Khan, author of Someone Like Her

Inventive, suspenseful, heartwarming, and culturally masterful”

Lisa Lynn Ericson, author of Simplicidade Vibrante

Beautifully evokes place and the experience of displacement”

Apple Gidley, author of Have You Eaten Rice Today?, Crucian Fusion, Transfer, and Fireburn

The twists, turns, and secrets produce a lush, sometimes sinister, debut novel”

Michael Langan, author of Shadow is a Color (as Light is)

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Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore - New Website

28/2/2024

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Check out the wonderful new website from Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore and look out for her new book 'The Guilty Can't Say Goodbye' coming soon from Springtime Books.

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Out Now - Juicy Life by Andrea Anstiss

10/11/2023

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8 Surprising Steps to Awaken Your True Self.

Leap into a transformational journey of discovery.
Uncover your innate preciousness.
Embrace your extraordinary Juicy Life.

Transpersonal psychotherapist Andrea Anstiss invites you to explore 8 remarkable steps that will challenge and surprise you. 8 steps that have the power to transform your life.

Unearth your emotional blueprint and your inherited ‘Tricky Traits’ – deep-rooted patterns of behaviour that can adversely affect your relationships, health, work and finances.

Discover how your ancestral lineage has influenced your life.

Face your Tricky Traits head-on through a series of Deep Dives, and with radical honesty, learn how to transform them.

Confidently own the skills and strengths already within you, and feel the Joy of making fresh and empowered choices.

Claim your prize: the delight, wonder and spaciousness of your True Self.

The wisdom, insight and tools from more than 35 years of healing experience are within these pages.

Out now in paperback and digital editions

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Akin to following a skilled wilderness guide through the landscape of our own psyche.

Dr Paris Williams, author of Rethinking Madness

Supports the reader to fall truly, madly and deeply in love with themself and their life.

MayBritt Searty, Therapist & Family Constellation Facilitator

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Life in Motion - German Edition Out Now!

26/10/2023

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Unterwegs im Zwischenland

Wie interkulturelle Übergangsphasen uns stark machen

Amy Casteel und Ruth E. Van Reken

Das Leben ist voller Veränderungen und viele dieser Umbruchphasen (Transitionen) im Leben geschehen, ohne dass wir uns überhaupt von zuhause wegbewegen. Beispielsweise durchleben wir den Prozess des Erwachsenwerdens von unserer Kindheit, über die Pubertät bis hin zum Erwachsenenalter. Eine große Lebensveränderung findet auch statt, wenn sich unser Status von „Single” auf „Verheiratet” ändert oder wenn wir in einem Moment kerngesund und im nächsten plötzlich schwer krank sind. Viele gravierende Lebensveränderungen bringt aber doch ein Ortwechsel mit sich. Dieses Buch zeigt, dass sich die Menschheit seit Beginn der Welt, als Adam und Eva ihr Zuhause im Garten Eden verlassen mussten, immer wieder mit geographischer Veränderung auseinandersetzen musste.

Erstaunlicherweise, haben die Menschen damals sehr ähnlich auf diese Veränderungen und Umbruchphasen reagiert wie wir heute. Durch ihre Geschichten, bekommen wir einen Einblick in ihren Umgang mit den einzelnen Phasen solcher Übergangserfahrungen und lernen, wie solche Prozesse uns stärken und uns Hoffnung geben können.

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Mit dem Kauf des E-Books Unterwegs im Zwischenland steht dir eine kostenlose PDF zum Download zur Verfügung, die du für die Bearbeitung der Fragen nutzen kannst.

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The ChrisLin Method - Out Now!

23/9/2023

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5 Steps for Working Creatively with Imagery & Metaphor

A step-by-step guide to facilitating lasting transformation, presented in a practical, clear and approachable way, The ChrisLin Method deserves a prominent place in any practitioner’s toolkit.

Christina Bachini & Lindsey Wheeler

Since the beginning of time, people of the world have expressed themselves through art, music, dance, drama and storytelling. In their groundbreaking book, Christina Bachini and Lindsey Wheeler offer practitioners – counsellors, coaches, art therapists and anyone engaged in delivering therapy or facilitating personal development – a practical guide to integrating creativity into their practice.

Built on 50+ years of collective experience, The ChrisLin Method uses creativity to help clients look at the underlying, unconscious drivers that affect their unhelpful emotions. It is through creatively exploring these unhelpful emotions that clients can untangle their inner world.
With easy to follow Steps, Core Questions, Frameworks and Case Studies, this comprehensive method will enable you to:

Understand how creativity works
Know when to offer creativity to your clients
Be confident in using The ChrisLin Method as an intervention
Learn how to work with your client’s creation.

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Out Now on Summertime Publishing - The Raft That Soared

12/8/2023

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Dr Rebecca Bower and Steven Ayling

Dedicated to kids and families on the move, everywhere

Join Sahana and David as they navigate the waters of change and transition. Delve into their world of hopes, fears and dreams as their journey of self-discovery takes them to unfamiliar places. As you experience their world, we hope that you too can look ahead to your future moves with a sense of hope, calm and wonder as you embrace new and exciting adventures.

New authors Rebecca Bower and Steven Ayling bring to life the groundbreaking work of Ruth Van Reken and the late David Pollock with bold simplicity, insight and charm.

A welcome addition to the world of global mobility. Needs to be a standard tool for educators and parents alike to use with the children in their care.”

Ruth Van Reken, co-founder of Families in Global Transition and co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds

As a Third Culture Kid (TCK), parent of TCKs and TCK educator I can say unequivocally how excited I am to see The RAFT That Soared be shared with the world.”

Michael Pollock, third culture coach and co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds

Delves into the range of real and sometimes very raw emotions… a thought-provoking story and excellent resource for supporting young people through the various stages of their transitions.”

Michele Borba, Ed.D, author of Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine

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Life in Motion - French Edition Out Now!

5/8/2023

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La vie en movement
Grandir quand les repères changent

Amy Casteel et Ruth E. Van Reken

La vie est ponctuée de transitions. Elles se produisent parfois au même endroit : nous passons de l’enfance à l’âge adulte, du célibat au mariage, d’une bonne santé à une maladie chronique. Certaines transitions surviennent lorsque nous partons vivre ailleurs.

Ce livre présente comment l’humanité a dû faire face à ces grands changements géographiques, depuis le départ forcé d’Adam et Ève du jardin d’Éden. Le croirez-vous ? Celles et ceux qui ont vécu de telles transitions ont beau avoir vécu dans l’Antiquité, leurs réactions ressemblent étonnamment aux nôtres. Ces récits nous aident à mieux comprendre les phases de la transition. Ils éclairent nos réactions à chaque étape et nous donnent des pistes sérieuses pour les traverser toutes avec force et espoir.

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Les lecteurs qui achètent une édition numérique de La vie en mouvement peuvent télécharger gratuitement une version PDF pour réaliser les exercices proposés dans le livre.

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Book Marketing for Authors

23/6/2023

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Do you have a book to promote but don't know where to start? The Expat Bookshop has curated advice and ideas, hints and tips about book promotion and marketing from the best in the business. Click the image to find out more.

Stayed tuned to the Expat Bookshop for more marketing articles as they are added.

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Toni Summers Hargis

9/6/2023

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Check out the new website from Toni Summers Hargis, author of How to Stand Up to Sexism.

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The Singing Warrior - Back on Sale

13/5/2023

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Springtime Books is delighted to confirm that, due to popular demand, Niamh Ni Bhroin's inspirational memoir, The Singing Warrior, Finding Happiness After a Life Filled with Pain and Abuse, is back on sale.

Niamh was born in Dublin and was convent-educated. Her physical abuse by the nuns and sexual abuse by a friend of the family (as a young child), had consequences right up through to her adult life. Her absent seagoing father and over-controlling mother also made her seem vulnerable all her life. However, when she travelled to London, then Greece, her life started to change, or so she thought. Unfortunately, the same patterns kept on cropping up. She married a controlling husband and spent many years in a life that was ruled by others. Her stay in the Netherlands was difficult and trying.

Her breakthrough came when she went to Africa for her 50th birthday and met a Masai warrior. She knew that her life had to radically change when he confronted her with the truths of her journey and it did. Within 3 months, she left a life, lifestyle and marriage and started a new life with her young daughter and two Ikea bags and a dog called Mozart. She went on a shamanic healing weekend in Scotland and came back the woman that she knew she truly was.

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The Newcomer's Dictionary - Latest Review

8/12/2022

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There is so much more to this book than you'd imagine. The word 'dictionary' is accurate but doesn't do it justice. As you work through the A-Z of terms relating to global mobility you're reminded how complex are their meanings.

Helen Ellis, author of Being a Distance Grandparent

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Season's Greetings

6/12/2022

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Out Now - Der Prolog

29/11/2022

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The German edition of Alexander V. Mirtchev's highly influential study of the geopolitical, security, economic, and environmental future of a major game-changing phenomenon — the alternative energy megatrend — is now out on Springtime Books.

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Book Promotion on Instagram

23/10/2022

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You'd like to promote your book on Instagram but don't know how. BookBub Partners have put together some examples to inspire you. Click on the image to find out more.