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Travel and Personal Growth: An Interview with Garrie Boldsmith
Thankfully, the world is open for travel once again. Traveling can broaden our horizons and make space for people to become more open-minded. How can travel give us the opportunity for personal growth? What are some ways that travel can help us become better human beings? As a part of our series about “How Traveling Can Help Us Become Better Human Beings”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Garrie Boldsmith. Iran, We Ran follows the lives of two Iranians who need to leave their native country urgently as a result of persecution and retribution, with serious doubts as to whether or not they will get passports and visas in time. His experiences, including extensive travel throughout the Middle East, including Iran, Syria and Lebanon, further deepened his understanding of the lives behind migration statistics and political debate enabling him to shape Iran, We Ran, with restraint, empathy and an acute
Marketing Your Book
Challenges, challenges, and a few more challenges for the first-time author: Garrie Boldsmith on the importance of marketing your book . . . Some 2 ½ years ago, I embarked upon a journey I had aspired to for decades – to write a work of fiction. Having no prior experience of writing fiction, I enlisted the help of an independent editor, who guided me on some key aspects, including describing the principal characters early on; finishing chapters with an air of expectation or intrigue; maintaining the drama throughout and the like. Apart from that initial guidance, one other memorable expression comes to mind from the exhilarating, challenging and satisfying journey I had embarked upon. The words were said to me as I was about to finish the book and start looking to have it published. They were said not by an independent editor but by a friend of a friend