SUSIE MALLETT

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Showing posts with label Let me tell you a story Book One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Let me tell you a story Book One. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Designer clothes off the peg

Aliens, space projects and conducting, it is so easy to fit them all together

Slowly, but surely, my book is reaching all corners of the world, and people are beginning to read it!
From Ireland, England (north and south), from Germany and New Zealand, I have been receiving readers comments, and now that at last the post has got across the Atlantic, maybe they will come in from the Americas too.

The last-but-one message coming in from the UK went a bit like this:

Not managed time to read the entire book but luckily spotted the bit about aliens as we are doing a project on space at the moment. The children loved the book about aliens with underpants that you mention in your stories, a book that was unknown to me until now. We cannot wait for next week’s space lesson when we will paint our own underpants.

Next week’s lesson came and went and it looks like it was a success. The next message came in enclosing the photograph shown above. That picture says it all.
Petö Pants

As I said in the blurb on my book, I write my blog, and now my books, for many reasons. One of them is that I hope people learn from them and perhaps copy. Here is a good example of what I meant. I like to imagine that soon conductors, parents and clients will be doing the Painting-Petö-Pants-Project all over the world!

I look forward to hearing more from the readers of my book so that I can use any critical remarks while designing the next one and publish any more photographs of the action here.

Notes

Aliens love Underpants -

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Love, souls and conduction

"Me with my stories"
7th December 2010



Jo Graham, Chas McGuigan and Gill Maguire also brought out a new book on Conductive Press in time for the World Congress.

It is called Intelligent Love and can be ordered here:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1755137

I have contributed to this book by interviewing a family that I have worked with very closely for the past thirteen years. The twenty-year old young man in this family who has cerebral palsy features in my book " Let me tell you a story, Book I" and in my blog.

I have published what this family told me about their ongoing conductive lifestyle over on my offspring blog - Susie Mallett's Conductive Upbringing and Lifestyle:

http://www.susie-mallett.com/2010/12/tough-living-and-tough-loving.html

Saturday, 27 November 2010

A book


"A sofa full of books" 27th November 2010 by Susie Mallett!!

The first book in a series of I-do-not-know how many

The working days have been long, both with the clients and without them. We have been busy after the groups so that my new colleague is confident enough to carry on with all, yes all, our groups and individual clients while we are in Hong Kong.

I have negelcted my bike, it is wrapped up in the courtyard behind the house. As it is snowy and rainy, and as I have been travelling, for want seems like months now, between work and the book designer's and to other appointments and home, it has been easier, and warmer, on the tram.

Now it is all over

The preparation for Hong Kong is all over, thats all!

Well just about all over. I have four more days at work and a trip to the dentist and the hairdresser to fit in before I jump on the plane, but the writing and the correcting and the searching for an extra page or an extra photo is all finished. The poster and the book have taken up every spare hour since my summer holiday!

Am I really an author as well as an artist?

I took delivery, when I got back from work yesterday evening, of my first publication. I am just off to the post to sent the first copy to my Dad who has sponsored the production! Thanks to him and my co-designer Uli there is a pile of boxes occupying my sofa containing hundreds of little books. It is quite amazing really to think that they are mine.

There is a whole bunch of people who have also contributed to this production, but most important of course are my clients who are the ones who give me something to write about!

It was actually a bit of an anti-climax when I go the book. The same kind of feeling when an exhibition of paintings has been hung. I have found the excitement with my book just the same as with painting, it comes with the doing. Perhaps the excitement will return when I press the first copy into someone's hands.

Now I have three boxes of small booklets on the sofa awaiting distribution!

So it is not all over at all

It is only just beginning. I have to start distributing and my co-designer made it clear last night that she will be waiting eagerly for the material to go into Book Two after christmas.

Watch this spot to find out more.