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Snapshots at an Exhibition
Some of my more interesting and useful encounters from the London
Book Fair at Earls Court, April 15-18, 2013. |
| I was delighted to meet Deborah Shine on
the Star Bright Books stand. Originally from Cape Town (a
South African accent she has still not lost after half a
century) via London to her current base in Cambridge,
Massachusetts where she publishes children's books in almost 30
languages. Given the enormous multi-ethnicity of the USA,
some of the designs providing e.g. Spanish-speaking mothers with
the ability to learn the English equivalents while teaching
their babies, were truly impressive.
http://www.starbrightbooks.org/ |
| As a bibliophile (nay!
bibliomaniac would be more accurate) since supping my mother's milk,
I was impressed by the quality and range of the Collector's Library
series from CRW Publishing Ltd. Beautiful small books very
modestly priced, and I totally enjoyed my chat with Editorial
Director Marcus Clapham.
www.collectors-library.com |
Maintaining
the theme of my enchantment with quality of design and beauty of
appearance, I was drawn to the stand of Murdoch Books, an
Australian-based publisher, where I met Jordan Weaver, their PR and
Marketing Manager to discuss out planned expansion into the area of
lifestyle.
http://www.murdochbooks.co.uk |
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The re-launch of the Nurturing
Potential online
magazine was officially announced at the London Book Fair on April
15, 2013.
If you are interested in collaborating with us, please get in touch
with Joe Sinclair via contact details at the foot of this page.
We have also decided to produce a
supplementary blog, and this we have tentatively named Potential
Unleashed.
Whereas Nurturing
Potential is
envisaged as a quarterly, Potential
Unleashed will appear
as and when we wish to report current news of our friends
(contributors, subscribers, or whatever), trailers of forthcoming
articles or planned series, as "appetite-whetters", as well as Book
Reviews that may, or may not, subsequently appear also in Nurturing
Potential.
A major decision has been to broaden the
base of NP interests. Thus we plan to devote sections of the
magazine to Lifestyle, Culture, The Arts and Ecology. We are
looking for contributors in these areas. If you are interested, or
know of anyone who may be, please get in touch
Amongst the plans we have for the next
and/or later issues is a series of articles based on the use of
various models for the development of creative ideas. For example,
the evolution of a plot and the subsequent writing of a work of
fiction. We might start, for instance, with a brainstorming
session, followed by mind mapping, and then use the transtheoretical
model of change in order to move the plot along and keep it
congruent with an individual's response to changing circumstances.
We might use examples and constructs from Assistant Editor Michael Mallows' Creating
Convincing Characters initiative, or his
CRAFTY concept. The
project is only limited by our own imagination and - at the end of
it - who knows? - there may be a best-seller.
This ties in also with the introductory
article From Brain
Storming to Mind Mapping in
the specimen issue.
One idea that has been suggested is for
the title It Happened
Tomorrow to the
be focal point of the Mind Map. Another idea was Old Men Fart
- but this latter was more in the way of jest!
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| At the London Book Fair, contact
was re-established with the following academic publishers
with a view to being once more included on their reviewers'
lists:
Sage Publishing
Oxford University Press
Crown House Publishing
Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Cambridge University Press
Wiley |
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Want to nurture
potential? Try a Little Theatre.
Some of my [Joe
Sinclair's] more
enjoyable experiences recently have been attending
productions at the Little Theatre in Bromley, Kent.
I've been fortunate in that one branch of my family is very
much involved in this facility - in various roles: acting,
directing, set-building, stage management (variously
undertaken by son-in-law and grand-daughter) and cake-making
(my daughter's contribution to the wellbeing of on-stage and
back-stage personnel).
I decided to dig into this
"little theatre" phenomenon a bit deeper and came up with
the following (reproduced in part from the Little Theatre
Guild website):
"The Little Theatre Guild, now known as the LTG, has been in
existence since 1946 to represent the views of Amateur
theatres across the UK. Our membership extends throughout
the UK, plus some overseas locations. In particular
membership of the LTG is open only to those amateur theatres
that own or lease the theatre premises upon which
productions are mounted. . .
"We currently have in excess of 103 member theatres right
across the United Kingdom, ranging from 64 seat auditorium
up to 450 seat auditorium. This includes theatres that
present only four plays per year to those that present a
continuous repertoire. In the last year LTG theatres
presented over 850 productions to an audience in excess of
630,000 patrons."
I hope to persuade one or more of the
aforementioned family members to produce an article on "The
role of the Little Theatres (and my roles in them)" for the
next issue of Nurturing Potential. |
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BOOKS FOR REVIEW |
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The following books are available for review. Please advise if you
are interested. |
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Kierkegaard Exposition
and Critique by
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BOOK REVIEWS |
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A Very Short,
Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Coaching and
Mentoring by Bob Garvey. Reviewed by Julie Hay.
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The following
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foretaste of the full review to be included in the forthcoming issue
of the Nurturing Potential magazine
Researching Gender by
Christina Hughes. Reviewer Sylvia Farley Click
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