We have done it!

Yang-May and I have finished our book on international communications and sent it on to the publisher, Kogan Page.

I felt slightly dizzy after leaving my local post office in West London. I watched the Royal Mail guy pick up the big red bag with our manuscript in it.

Funny, I though, such an important step and he will never know the role he got to play in our lives. Somehow… for a brief moment… I wanted to give him a hug!

I am still feeling slightly bewildered….

What amazes me is that, earlier this year, after a couple of months of writing, the book began to take on a life of its own.

It was kind of writing itself, as a friend of mine said. It developed its own dynamic…and soon enough it was taking me on paths I never though I would explore (we got content from so many countries, including Brazil, Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and the Philippines)

In brief, here are the main points we make in the book:

• New communications practices are being developed by emerging economies and their multinationals. They will soon dominate our way of working.
• Technology and social media are creating new on-line cultures and new audiences for communicators.
• Social business is challenging the collective thinking and changing the way business operates. It needs communicators to spread its message on a global scale.

We have a long list of acknowledgements in the book and we are so grateful to all the people who have advised and supported us.

To this, I would like to add a big Thank You to all the friends who were there for me during the summer, during those long “unsocial” weeks I spent locked up in front of my computer.

Same as with the postman….I want to give you all a big hug!

Photo: thanks to dailymail.co.uk

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7 Responses to “We’ve finished the Book”

1. Gina McAdam says:

   November 28, 2008 at 10:39 pm

   Congratulations, Silvia, and to Yang May too! We know how hard you’ve worked on it — it will be seminal, am sure! Enjoy the weekend — you deserve it.
2. Daneeta Loretta says:

   November 30, 2008 at 3:47 am

   Yay! Congratulations. You should go on a long holiday!
3. Silvia Cambie says:

   December 1, 2008 at 9:30 am

   Thanks, Gina and Daneeta!
   it is such a stange feeling… and I am enjoying the Christmas lights.
4. Barbara Gibson says:

   December 1, 2008 at 3:37 pm

   Congratulations Silvia! A monumental accomplishment. Can’t wait to read the book.
5. Silvia Cambie says:

   December 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm

   Thanks, Barbara. It does feel monumental.
6. valentina says:

   February 17, 2009 at 12:11 pm

   Congratulation cara Silvia!!!!!
   un abbraccio forte
   valentina
7. Silvia Cambie says:

   February 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

   Grazie, Valentina. Spero di vederti presto!