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Oct.26.2009
The Madrid Book Fair is but a warm memory and Frankfurt was freezing but I still have pixels dancing in my eyes. Surrounded by beautiful books at the Frankfurt Buchmesse, in all languages, styles and formats I’m still following my new fascination with the ebook and POD (print on demand). They live...
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Oct.08.2009
It’s scary. Habit is a scary thing. It’s been years since I’ve been involved in any kind of commuting but here I am on my second day at the book fair taking the metro and suddenly becoming aware of the hypnotic state that I fell into as soon as I hit the rush hour. It’s the defence mechanism that...
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Oct.07.2009
I want to run away from the book fair. Lots of people in suits doing business, traditional business. I want to run away as fast as I can. Not a good reaction for a (sort of) literary agent. I think I’m supposed to embrace all this stuff but it’s been a long time since I did traditional business. It...
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Aug.27.2009
Bad manners create stress, stress makes you sick. It makes me want to throw up over the rude idiot who always tries to wiggle their way forward in the queue for check-in at the airport. Any airport in the world. The whole concept of personal space does not exist in the competition it takes to get...
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About Gillian
Having spent my entire career in the advertising field working in media communication and setting up companies from scratch for multinationals around the world I decided to relax and have some me time. Despite having lived in a number of exciting countries...
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