
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 [...]

books
By Jo Parfitt, on January 7th, 2010
Robin Pascoe introduced me to Joanne Grady Huskey a few weeks before Christmas to tell me about her recently published memoir, An Unofficial Diplomat. Immediately I started to correspond with Joanne and it was not long before her book was in my hand. I have just had the pleasure of reading it.
Many of my clients [...]