I am not talking about human babies, but books. Today my latest book comes out; The Viva Mayr Diet – 14 Days to a Flatter Stomach and a Younger You.
I have decided that books are a little like babies, if a little more profitable. They have a gestation period, a birth (launch) and then they take on a life of their own.
This evening we will drink some champagne to celebrate number five. And tomorrow I start work on baby number six…..
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2009
Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group. She writes a beauty blog wwwbeautyorbeast.uk.
Her third novel, The Arnolfini Marriage, based on a romance that evolves around a van Eyck masterpiece came out in 2016. As well as writing regularly for newspapers and magazines, Helena is also working on a thriller called Welcome to Sweden that will be published in spring 2018. Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and came out in paperback in April 2018.
Helena was educated at Durham University and lived in the Languedoc region of France for eight years, where the family still have a home. She lives between there and London with her husband Rupert and their three children.
Bibliography
More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004
Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)
All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006
Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007
So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)
More, More France; Gibson Square 2009
To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)
The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009
Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011
The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013
Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016
The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016
Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018
Welcome to Sweden; Gibson Square summer 2018
Congratulations! Hope your book does well.
I guess a book-baby takes a little more effort to ‘conceive’ than a human baby…but is maybe less effort after it has been ‘born’…
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Congratulations Helena!
I’m heading to Amazon to order a copy, I can’t wait!
Congratulations on your newest baby. I love it that you conceived and delivered this baby without ever having to go through labor! Looking forward to the new read – Enjoy your champagne!
Thank you ladies! At some stages the editing process is almost as painful as labour….but not quite.
Hx
Many congrats Helena! Book looks great, good luck with it! J.x
Thanks J
Hx
Congratulations!
Would you mind telling us a bit more about the process?
Checking it out now on Amazon and posting on my blog!
Hi Irene
What would you like to know about the process? Publishing a book or writing one or both?
Hx
Congratulations, and no post-pregnancy weight to lose either, mimi
Congratulations on the new book, can’t wait to read it. But maybe you should reward yourself with a day off at least in-between? 🙂
Congratulations on your new baby! I shall buy it to add to my collection of Helena books.
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