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Living by numbers….virtually

22nd May 2011 by Helena 2 Comments  

The world is moving online. No longer will we be obsessed, as Bridget Jones was, with the number of glasses of wine we consume or pounds we weigh. The only numbers that will interest us are the number of friends we have on Facebook, or the number of followers and tweets we have on Twitter. If you are an author you can add another number, your amazon rating to that list.

I speak as a seasoned Tweeter. After only four hours as a tweeter I have already experienced the highs and lows. The highs of seeing how it works and the lows of finding out my daughter had been sending out messages on my behalf.

I am following an eclectic bunch, including a fake Frank Lampard, the journalist Frank Gardner, Vogue and The New York Times. I have just been searching for news on Syria and of course THAT premier league footballer who plays for Man U and does yoga to stay young. Obviously I can’t mention his name as he might sue me, along with the rest of the million or so who have mentioned him on Twitter.

So far I have two followers. One is my daughter who I will have to de-friend or whatever the Twitter term is, and the other one I have no idea. I suppose things can only get better. Anyone interested can check me out, my account is @HelsFP.

See you out there….

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2011


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2 thoughts on Living by numbers....virtually

  • Elizabeth says:
    23rd May 2011 at 8:52 pm

    Hej

    I’m NochKP!

  • Nina says:
    29th May 2011 at 4:11 am

    Sorry, I have decided to read just few blogs. Including yours, of course. Other time taking things, such as twitters etc, I have to skip. Giving more time to ashtangayoga after work and family. Good luck.

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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.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France 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

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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