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…
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Galland N°5
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
Because a picture says more than a 1000 words
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 –…
Library love
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…
AROMA – Debut in… Dutch
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…
Finding your IKIGAI is a future-proof strategy
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)…
Let’s prepare for something completely new. Forget exit strategies, think ENTRY strategies.
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…
Dear Quarantaine, I must admit…
I must admit, initially I hated you. I hated you a lot because you reduced me to the small world of my house and garden in Ghent, Belgium. A social life that only revolves around the necessary visits to the supermarket, and that deprives me from seeing family, friends and colleagues, is utterly boring. No…
Every day is a good day
Whom we were yesterday is not necessarily whom we are today or whom we will be tomorrow. Simply because situations change. Sometimes suddenly and drastically. We all know what sudden and drastic means today. Behind the masks When I was a child, tears for example were seen as a sign of weakness. I never cried,…
Tweak the plan, not the goal
We hope you are at home and doing fine in these difficult times of lockdown and quarantaine. Today, things do not longer go according to plan. Countries are closing, cities and villages look empty. Many businesses are reaching a critical point. The good times seem far away. We could conclude: it is beyond our own…