During 2012 we published a whopping 25 titles in print format, with almost the same number again being produced in Kindle format too. This brings our total number of individual titles to 70 and our number of authors to 47.
Summertime was first formed in 1995 to publish a cookbook called Dates and then Forced to Fly and Career in Your Suitcase in 1998. But it was not until 2008 that, thanks to the advances in Print on Demand and Kindle technology, the imprint began to publish in earnest.
Now, with its chosen specialism of books by and for people living abroad, we publish a range of how to, memoir,...
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Book launches are the perfect way to celebrate a newly published book and get your promotion off to a good start.
Summertime author, Apple Gidley, knew she would be in Europe over the summer and suggested she pop into The Hague, home of her publisher, Jo Parfitt, and do a book launch. Thanks to the generosity of The Expatriate Archive Centre the launch took place on June 21st and was a huge success.
Vanessa of Expat TV got wind of the event and asked if she could bring a camera crew. Of course we agreed, and the result, below, has given us all (and Apple’s book, Expat Life Slice by Slice)...
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Yes, I know I am supposed to bang on about life’s crappy stuff and how to deal with it, but honestly, can you blame me for wanting just to bask in the loveliness of another day with The Thinking Tank in the Amazon 100 Bestsellers list? How can that possibly be crappy?
Although, ask my husband and it would probably be another story as the poor darling has practically had to make an appointment to catch up with me this week. And bless him, he is being my trusty companion and sherpa for all my book signings at the mo – Eastbourne, Peterborough, Leicester, Bristol, Clapham Junction (fingers crossed),...
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