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I mentioned before that I’ve been blogging over at Medium for a while. I’d love it if you went over and checked it out.
My latest Medium posts include articles entitled:
“I Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny – how to survive in a post-truth age”
“I know I’m Right! – the illusory value of moral convictions”
and over at the
Colonel Thorn blog, I reflect on my two years of research.
What will 2021 bring us all, I wonder!
Yes I am still writing stories! You could be forgiven for thinking I’d stopped. Between a PhD and a new job, life has changed a lot. So here’s an update! Recently I started as Content Creator at a company called Performance Frontiers. They are an inspiring leadership development business grounded in the ideals of natural capitalism and whole systems thinking. I’m so enjoying this role, and the people I am working with, despite being on a steep learning curve. And I’m getting to write articles in the areas of positive psychology, and case studies about inspiring transformations in life and business. This is pretty much full time, and you can find out more here: https://performancefrontiers.com/aboutus/.
Marianne de Pierres is an author and academic
So today I pressed send on my Fulbright submission to write the book about Colonel Thorn. It’s been almost a year since I began to put it together. Whatever happens, I’ve learned a lot. It definitely took a village to get over the line and there are many people I’d like to acknowledge.
Firstly, thank you to my referees Dr Kim Wilkins, Dr Bronwyn Lea, and Dr Ros Petelin. Writing references for these kind of applications is time consuming and usually lands on your desk when you least have the time to do it. They were all gracious and encouraging, and Ros even found a colleague to give me feedback on the project statement.
Dr Jess White was simply amazing. She gave me ideas on how to track down host invitations, performed several edits on the project statement, and just made me feel like I could do it. Without Jess there would have been no application. She is the bomb! She and Dr Amber Gwynne (who thankfully found my dangling modifiers and stamped on them!) also suggested talking to Dr Murray Pomerance, a visiting Canadian scholar, who opened his address book and connected me all his New York colleagues. It was a collegial and generous act.
Colleagues of his, contacted colleagues of theirs, and the email tree grew until I was finally introduced to Professors at NYU and Pace universities who liked my project and were happy to support it. To say I felt elated was an understatement.
I want to thank my son Marcus and my sister, Nicci, who have been with me from the start: reading, encouraging, and suggesting. Marcus also went through the online form and double checked it and saved me from submitting something that was incomplete (I’m a shocker at reading forms properly).
And lastly, thanks to all who have patiently listened while I have rattled on about my Colonel Thorn story and the Fulbright for so long. It has been an obsession for a few years, and one way or the other I WILL write the book.
So now… lets finish this damn PhD!
Over and out.
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In a near-future where privatised health care has sent the cost of over-the-counter medicine soaring, terrorists execute a well-planned attack on the world’s pharmaceutical companies.
Ella West is an ex-pat Australian living in New York City when the coup begins and is mistakenly imprisoned for suspected terrorist activity.
On her release she finds her partner, Joah, has passed away because of lack of treatment due to the malfunctioning health care system. As the city descends into chaos, she plans to leave, but is is asked a favour by a friend — to transport his teenage daughter to safety in South Carolina. Ella heads south, planning to honour her friend’s wish and then find a way back across the Mexican border and home to Australia. But in the turmoil that unfolds, her life changes forever.
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