interviews & new releases

Writers Abroad radio show No 1 - I interview Julia Simens of Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child

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 [...]

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Is good feedback really that good?

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 [...]

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books

The genre that has no bookshelf

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 [...]

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So, how do you write a memoir?

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 [...]

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New author, Niamh Ni Bhroin, of The Singing Warrior is on TV!

Skip to the 7th minute and enjoy Niamh’s interview, in English, on TV West

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How one expat blog led to a column with the WSJ and then a published book!

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 [...]

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Learning to say NO

If you are a writer, like me and want to write, then sometimes, just sometimes, you need to learn to say [...]

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Author to Author interview with Jan Hurst-Nicholson, author of expat novel But Can You Drink the Water?

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. [...]

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A taste of my own medicine

Three tips to help writers stop procrastinating, beat the fear, get feedback and send their work out. Wisdom from Paul Gardner and Megan [...]

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Writers need websites

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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