Never take anything for granted
Thursday 7 November 2024 is a day we will not easily forget. With the official presentation of our novel Het Vijfde Testament (Il Quinto Testamento), we wrote history in the beautiful Ghent Court of Appeal. A unique place – one has rarely access to – became the setting of the main introduction event of our…
Saturday, 26 October – This was my first day at this year’s Boektopia. Starring Bitter, talking to fans, signing books and a lot of emotions when seeing Het Vijfde Testament (Il Quinto Testamento) for the first time in public. Because pictures say more than a thousands words, some impressions: I’ll be back at Boektopia on…
5 November 2022 – It was a lovely Saturday afternoon in Kortrijk Xpo, with interviews with a.o. Annelies Dyck and Melissa Giardina, and a signing session in good company of Max Temmerman (Verre Vriend) and Bart Steenhaut (Arno- Vive Ma Liberté) at my publisher’s Borgerhoff & Lamberigts. And most of all it was fun. Many…
This week is not about Chanel N°5. No, it is all about Galland N°5. AROMA made it to position 5 in the top 10 Fiction. Many thanks to my enthousiastic readers, all the reviewers of AROMA, and my publisher Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, without whom none of this would ever have been possible! Ann
AROMA’s rollercoaster adventure in pictures. 1) Official book intro AROMA – Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent, 15 June 2022. 2) AROMA enters the Flemish and Dutch libraries. 3) Book intro at the Belgian coast – sold out ! – Botticelli, Nieuwpoort, weekend 9-10 July 2022. 4) AROMA enters the top 10 best sold books Fiction –…
I love libraries of any type and any size. In any place. All over the globe. They are magnetical to me. But today the sensation of seeing and buying books, has changed a little. As of now, my novel AROMA is to be found in a wide range of libraries in both Belgium and the…
I would like to sincerely thank all my international friends and professional contacts for their genuine interest in my debut novel AROMA, which is to be released in both Belgium and Holland by mid June 2022. AROMA is written in Dutch Although the story of Alba Amato is completely set in Italy – mainly in…
After an unusual number of cancelled flights, hotel reservations, concerts, events, parties and dinners, I gradually started hoping someone was going to cancel 2020 altogether. But nobody did so far! It looks like we will have to accept 2020 as the year in which a few things changed drastically. And “a few” is a serious…
IKI means “life, alive” and KAI “result, benefit”. As such, the Japanese concept IKIGAI can best be described as a reason for being“. We have been using the concept of Ikigai in our Personal branding and Pitching workshops to help individuals better focus on “why they do what they do“, and help them make smart(er)…
We are entering a completely new world, a world that will be different from everything we have seen and experienced so far. Covid-19 has forever changed the world as we knew it. The new times will be exciting and difficult at the same time, because we are lacking experience in how to face and adapt…