• Home
  • About
  • Shop
  • Training
  • News
  • Challenge 500
  • Events
  • People
  • Contact Us
Menu

beyond words

  • Home
  • About
  • Shop
  • Training
  • News
  • Challenge 500
  • Events
  • People
  • Contact Us

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates.

We respect your privacy.

You will now receive our newsletter and any major release announcements.

Thank you from the Beyond Words Team!

News Feed

Rose's journey - weight loss book update

August 12, 2015

On Tuesday 21 July we held the first advisory group meeting for Beyond Words’ new book on weight loss. Since our first editorial meeting back in May, artist Mike Nicholson has been thoughtfully sketching a set of black and white illustrations, based on the detailed storyline that we wrote as a group. Last week’s meeting was the first chance for people to have a look at Mike’s drawings and read the story as a whole.

Several new faces joined us for the meeting, including self-advocate Beverley Smith, her supporter Danielle, and a number of dieticians and other health professionals, who travelled from across the country.

In small groups, we read through the story picture by picture, making notes on anything we weren’t sure about as well as things that worked well that we really liked!

It was exciting to see our original story brought to life in Mike’s drawings and everyone agreed that the story was engaging and informative and our character – we called her Rose – was likeable and authentic.

People had lots of ideas about how they might use the story in their work, as well as things to add and ways to improve it: we imagined Rose’s backstory and thought about how to bring this into our narrative; we talked a bit about food advertising and food packaging as well as food preparation and cooking skills; we even found time to talk about Rose’s pets! Not all of these ideas will make it into the final book, but it certainly gave the authors a lot to think about.

The next step is for the authors to agree what changes are needed, and for Mike to make a new set of colour pictures. We will then trial the colour pictures more widely amongst book clubs, schools, healthy living groups and other interested groups, and find out how well the story works for them.

Stay tuned for the next update in Rose’s story.

If you know or are part of a group who would like to try out our story and be part of the development of this important book, please get in touch with us: publishing@booksbeyondwords.co.uk.

← Books in review: Peter's New Home / You're in PrisonBeyond Words and Hugh Grant take the Stage with 'The Drama Group' →

Latest Tweets

  • RT @ldsatcitylit: Looking forward to our exhibition opening next Wednesday @citylit come along and celebrate our talented artists ach… https://t.co/tK8u4NLHfY
    about 6 hours ago
  • It takes all sorts of people to make our books. A huge thank you to @WarksFireRescue who worked with our artist Luc… https://t.co/YRSjxEVCyg
    about 10 hours ago
  • RT @ZaidmanBrooke: Cannot wait to share this brilliant book with my patients and colleagues. I just know they will love it. Thank you… https://t.co/Tm73VvH3pF
    about a week ago

Latest Offers

Featured
Complete Book Set
468.00
Health Book Set
189.00
Bumper Book Club Set
500.00

www.booksbeyondwords.co.uk