A Call for Submissions!!!

No one has stories like expats have stories. Over the years I’ve found myself with cocktail in hand, listening to international friends recount moments of being in a high speed dash to the border of the Gaza strip, moving a one thousand pound stone lantern from Japan to Canada, the specifics of driving from Ghana to Timbuktu, and being helicoptered out of Tel Aviv to have a premature baby because the hospital was out of incubators. These, of course, are quite extreme, but they’re actual experiences of people in my inner circle. If these are the memories of my friends, there are so many more crazy and unbelievable stories out there about things that happen while living abroad.

Bring me your highest high; your lowest low.

Living outside your passport country can both fill your heart, and break it; sometimes simultaneously. In sharing these experiences; we become a window into what it’s really like living abroad, and build a sense of community for the global village of adventurous souls who have travelled down the amazing, yet challenging road of life abroad!

I want to hear your story! Make us laugh, make us cry, or simply bring forward an experience that’s become your most jaw-dropping dinner party story. Because the most fumbled expat moments make for the best stories!

Since publishing Once Upon an Expat, I’ve been approached many times about making a second book. My expat reach has since expanded, and time and location changes have made for many new experiences. Finally, the timing feels right.

Dust off your laptop, the time to write is now!Send in your well polished, original work, between 800-3000 words, to lisa@canadianexpatmom.com by January 11, 2019.

Authors will gain exposure through social media promotion, and being published internationally in both paperback and ebook, with a short bio included in the book. Life on the Move will be available on Amazon in all distributing countries.

Please note that author royalties, and proceeds for the first two years of this book, will be donated to Mwana Villages; a holistic orphanage in Pointe Noire, Congo that rescues abandoned babies, educates and assists vulnerable families, and works towards bringing an end to the orphan crisis.

Share your story. Make a difference.