Self-published Author Lands Publishing Deal

December 19, 2008 in Press by admin | No comments

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Self-published Author Lands Deal for Her Book on Living in Spain

What started out as a series of emails home from an expat as she and her husband struggled to build their dream home in Spain has turned into a publishing phenomenon as her book, “Bitten by Spain” is due to hit bookstore shelves in the New Year.

Deborah Fletcher, originally from the UK but now living near Bullas in Southern Spain, decided to self-publish her story and was discovered by Lean Marketing Press who were keen to include additional content and repackage the book under their NativeSpain.com imprint.

Deborah’s Publisher – Debbie Jenkins says, “Deborah’s book is a real asset to the NativeSpain imprint. Good books should be packed with the personality of the author and we hope readers will be able to identify with Deborah as she generously shares her ups and downs as an expat living high in the Murcia hills.”

Deborah says, “I’m delighted that my own efforts at self-publishing have turned into a proper book deal. The additional content I’ve provided for this new edition along with the professional design and typeset provided by my publisher sees the successful conclusion of our story and is something I’m very proud of.”

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“Bitten by Spain” by Deborah Fletcher ISBN: 1905430507 is available to buy from Amazon and all good bookshops from January 2009.

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WEBSITE LINKS

Publisher’s Website:
http://www.leanmarketingpress.com

Nativespain Community:
http://www.nativespain.com

Sales pages and book preview on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1905430507
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1905430507/ref=nosim

BOOK SUMMARY

Following a popular, if somewhat jaded, trend of Brits to pursue the good life in sunnier climes, Deborah Fletcher and her husband John eventually came to be the proud owners of a large and extremely beautiful piece of land in a river valley in Southern Spain. There, with three dogs, a cat, six parrots and an awful lot of spiders, they lived between a static caravan and a huge old barn as they battled perpetually – with the elements, the wildlife, the authorities and the natives – to build their dream home from a pile of old stones.

Bitten by Spain began as a series of emails back home to let friends and family know how things were going. Now, you too, can share in this intimate, warts-and-all take on Spanish rural life and what it’s like learning to live with the wildlife, including the natives, in a finca in el campo of Southern Spain.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

“With a great deal of humour, Debs describes life in a remote valley, while she and her husband are renovating a shed into a liveable house with all the modern commodities necessary for us Northern Europeans. All the while their Spanish neighbours are watching, shaking their heads. Wild life, in the form of spiders, wild boars and scorpions; pets – whether dogs, cats or cockatoos; neighbourly courtesies, being over-the-fence exchange of produce or at special occasions, are all things anybody who has settled among the Spanish in a rural environment can relate to. Debs describes it with a wonderful sense of humour – aiming both at our peculiar set ways as well as our hosts’. It is easy reading, full of humour and love for the Spanish way of life. I enjoyed reading it because it is the first book I have come across that I can relate to after 12 years of sharing my life with the Murcians. Read it – it is a true description of rural Murcian life from an expat’s point of view!”
- Biggy Marshall, Murcia

“A book I read avidly, having started greedily after shelving the current. Hard to put down as it’s like being there! It’s a well written book full of interest and humour.”
- Paul Spooner

“I could have read this book in one go but I savoured it over two sessions. It was brilliant. Look forward to the next one.”
- Shari Ferari

“Your book arrived, and I dived straight into it and forgot to make the old man any dinner. It’s a really good read, and it’s just as if I was listening to you on the phone – you write so descriptively and confidently that the pages just fly by! I have pretty much decided that there are far too many spiders and nowhere near enough wine for my liking, and that you have achieved what most women would have nightmares about!”
- Susan Beck

“Both Sonia and I so very much enjoyed reading Deb’s book. Neither of us could put the book down. It was so entertaining with many laughs and quite a number of things we so easily identify with.”
- Jim and Sonia Bishop

IMAGES

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ARTICLES

Deborah is happy to provide free content in return for a “plug” for her book. Contact her publisher for an introduction.

DEBORAH FLETCHER

I must admit that I am someone who never really had much of a clue about what it is I wanted in life, and so I lurch clumsily through it along a haphazard path in the blind faith that it’ll all be fine in the end! From entering University in 1977 to study pharmacy and then changing my mind and the course of study to biology after a year; from teaching for eight years in FE Colleges and then completely retraining in accountancy and taxation; from running my own accountancy practice for ten years and then selling the whole shooting match to retrain in professional interior design; from living my whole life in England working with papers and rules and then moving to Spain and finding my own brand of anarchy. All experiences make us what we are. I am clearly a somewhat random cocktail, then! But I can say truthfully that I have always given everything my best shot, that the milestones in my life are things of which I am proud (my husband, my son, my friends, my assorted ragbag of diverse achievements, my honesty, my creeds), and that I wouldn’t, in retrospect, change a damn thing. And at twenty years of age, I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have wanted to grow my own organic produce, keep hens, write a book, make crystal jewellery and run a chaotic menagerie… but here I am after all, as happy as a rotund pink animal in the dubious brown stuff. I am blessed.

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