Todays blog is to help promote a new book Foreign Encounters. Life on La Lune writes stories that always make me feel as if I am visiting France, as if I am there with the writer. Not quite the same as being there, but actually the next best thing, so I encourage you to visit her blog. Loads of fabulous photos too, which help with the virtual holidays!

Foreign Encounters, a New Anthology from Writers Abroad blogged by Life on La Lune;

“Writers Abroad, the online writing group for ex-pat writers I belong to, is publishing a new anthology today, entitled Foreign Encounters. It contains short stories, non-fiction and poems by writers who are, or have been, ex-pats. They live in, or have written about, more than 50 countries across all continents.

An encounter can be a chance meeting, a planned get-together or even a confrontation. This collection features a variety of foreign encounters: with family, friends, lovers, animals, cultures, or just with one’s own prejudices and preconceptions.

Foreign Encounters is the third anthology published by Writers Abroad. Author Julia Gregson, a former ex-pat whose bestselling novel East of the Sunwon the Prince Maurice Prize for romantic fiction, has written the foreword. Read more…