 interviews & new releases
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on May 18th, 2011
Called Writers Abroad, my show is part of TheWINonline network and each week I will be interviewing new expat authors and writers and sharing tips to help others who share those writing [...]
 tips
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on April 2nd, 2011
I am driven to write and it is this drive that has taught me to allow myself to smart from the latest piece of negative feedback for no more than 24 hours, then pick myself up and get back to the keyboard. It is by writing that I can move beyond my inner [...]
 books
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on March 3rd, 2011
You see, we have a problem. Take my bestselling book A Career in Your Suitcase. It is a book for people living abroad and is about creating and growing a portable career based on your passions. But, if you wanted a book on portable careers where would you [...]
 interviews & new releases
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on March 1st, 2011
Inspired by three recent expat memoirs, by Alan Paul, Carolyn Vines and Niamh Ni Bhroin, this post reveals the five rules for writing memoirs with [...]
 interviews & new releases
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on February 9th, 2011
Skip to the 7th minute and enjoy Niamh’s interview, in English, on TV West
 inspiration
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on February 9th, 2011
Today, I am delighted to welcome Alan Paul to my blog as a guest blogger.
I am always telling my students that if they want to be taken seriously as a writer they need to blog. Alan’s story says it [...]
 inspiration
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on February 1st, 2011
If you are a writer, like me and want to write, then sometimes, just sometimes, you need to learn to say [...]
 books
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on January 6th, 2011
Jan Hurst-Nicholson. Not only is she an expat writer, but she is also a humorous novelist and has recently published a novel on Kindle. In the couple of months since its launch, she has sold tens of books daily and her book has now reached number 3 in the Amazon bestseller ranking. [...]
 books
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on November 17th, 2010
Three tips to help writers stop procrastinating, beat the fear, get feedback and send their work out. Wisdom from Paul Gardner and Megan [...]
 books
By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on November 15th, 2010
I have had a website for about ten years now. In fact I am embarrassed to admit to the number I have had so far. There has been career-in-your-suitcase.com, summertimepublishing.com, expatrollercoaster.com, thebookcooks.com and now joparfitt.com and each of those has been fiddled and fussed with and changed and rebranded so many time I have lost [...]
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