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“Eurovision: Beyond the Sequins” almost tops the Amazon Kindle music charts!

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ESC Insight’s Ewan Spence is sitting nicely behind “Queen: The Illustrated Lyrics” in the Amazon Kindle charts with his book “Eurovision: Beyond the Sequins”. Pick up your copy before the show starts at Saturday 9pm CET! Running from the end of Dusseldorf 2011 with the victory of ‘Running Scared’ to the start of Baku 2012, ‘Eurovision: Beyond the Sequins’ looks in-depth at Europe’s favourite TV Show, as well as following Ewan Spence’s travels across Europe to visit the National Finals of Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as the preview parties across the continent. Ewan Spence looks beyond the sequins,

Help celebrate Robert Morley’s Miss World and support JKO’s latest book

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John Kennedy O’Connor’s latest project after his big book of Eurovision, is the big book of Miss World, but he needs a bit of support For all fans of Miss World and for the fans of the fans, plus those who’ve never heard of it or who have heard of it and think it heinous… Show your support for the manuscript currently gathering dust on a publisher’s desk by liking this page and sharing it with your Fakebook friends. It may yet see the light of day with enough support. Head over to the book’s Facebook Page to show your

How to write a book, by people who have written a book

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Mostly for "if I ever need to find this article again", but also partly as inspiration. But now comes the hard part. It’s one thing to work up a 4000-word magazine feature and another to sit down and write a 100,000-word book… I’ve chosen to deal with my anxiety by tapping into the wisdom of the hive mind. I recently sent email to the authors in my social network and asked them, “What do you wish you’d known about the process of writing a book that you didn’t know before you did it?”

Finding my way around Norway

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Sometimes you just need a good book and everything in one place. Before I head on any trip, I like to make sure of a few things – how to get from the airport or station into town and to the hotel, where the major points of interest for the tip are; how much is breakfast going to cost me; public transport and other little niggly things. Now it is possible to go online and find out all of this given time (and the airport links are usually on the Wikipedia page of said Airport), but instead of offering to

Apparently I am a Freesoul…

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Last year I was contacted by Joi Ito, asking for permission to use one of his pictures of myself in a photo gallery book he was putting together. The book was Freesouls and the aim was: …to put together a photography book which is about all of the inspirational moments and inspirational people from the last year. I have been lucky to be able to capture many of those moments in my photography and I am hoping that a book will be a good way to provide context for and share those moments with a wider audience of people. Here’s