 expatriate stuff By Jo Parfitt, on August 16th, 2010
I am a big fan of writing competitions, particularly when the winners get published. Earlier this year I was a judge for the Netherlands Young Writer Competition and the winners had their entries published in a super book about friendship. A week or so ago I judged the finalists in the Life in a Flying House competition where winners earn $10,000 from the Expat Youth Scholarship and publication online. I urge you to look at the website and read last year’s entries while you are waiting for this year’s results (out 13 September).
This week, I have two more competitions to tell you about – and this time they are for grown ups!
Entering a competition has many six [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, on August 16th, 2010
I just wrote a piece about how to write about your life experience overseas for a website called Khiruna. If you would like to find out more and dip into some tips and ideas then click here.
expatriate stuff By Jo Parfitt, on July 15th, 2010
If you live abroad and are thinking of writing your life story, these ten tips I wrote for Moldova.org could be just what you need.
To read the full article, click here.
books By Jo Parfitt, on July 7th, 2010
I just wrote this piece about how to write life story for Cyprus Mail. It includes examples of the different ways you could tackle writing your own memoir if you too, like me, live abroad and just know your experiences have value and can help other people.
click here to read the story
books By Jo Parfitt, on June 16th, 2010
I met Tina at the fabulous Families in Global Transition conference a few years ago. Then two years back she hired me to help her to tighten up and publish her book. The Global Nomad’s Guide to University Transition is much needed. I know because I have a global nomad child of my own, who has lived in five countries and headed ‘home’ to university in London this year. My son, Sam, wished he’d had this book before he left. Now those who follow in his footsteps, and their parents, can begin to understand the unique transition that takes place when a TCK (Third Culture Kid) goes to uni.
Here is my interview, yesterday, with Tina, whose book came out last [...]
articles By Jo Parfitt, on May 1st, 2010
Jo Parfitt has written a book a year for the last decade. Find out how she meets her [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, on February 26th, 2010
It’s been a busy few weeks. Not only has my client, Simone Costa Eriksson’s book Moving Abroad been released but Natalie Tollenaere’s book The Art of Possibilities/L’art des Possibles has been published – in TWO languages. This is a first for me, to publish two versions at the same time. And it was a joy [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, on February 26th, 2010
Nothing can beat the moment you hold your first book in your hand. Yesterday, my client, Simone Costa-Eriksson, shared that moment with me, when she opened her first box of her first book: Moving Abroad: the mission of detective Mike. A children’s book for 4-9 year old mobile kids.
“So many doubts have crossed [...]
expatriate stuff By Jo Parfitt, on February 9th, 2010
Eek! I guess that’s me.
I’m always keen to promote surveys conducted by people I know. I met Diane Endo two years ago at the Families in Global Transition conference in Houston www.figt.org and will meet her again next month when she runs a workshop on this issue. She specialises in transition issues encountered by the [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, on January 11th, 2010
Everyone knows that if you plan to write a book yourself you need to check out the competition. You need to read books like the one you are going to write to find out what works and what doesn’t, to get ideas and be motivated by the fact that if someone else can do it [...]
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