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Writers Abroad Radio Show 22 with Nick Snelling, expat laptop entrepreneur and writer

Fascinating, informative, inspiring interview with Nick Snelling of the highly successful blog www.culturespain.com about how he makes a living writing while living abroad in Spain with his family. Nick is the author of four books – Taking the Heat, How to Sell Your Spanish Property in a Crisis, How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain – Safely and his next book, for November release – Laptop Entrepreneur. Nick’s next book shares how anyone can get to grips with the internet and can create a lucrative career from home anywhere in the world. This interview is crammed with tips and takeaways. Don’t miss [...]

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How long does it take . . . to get your book written and published? Alan Paul explains . . .

Alan Paul, author of Big in China, describes his writing and publishing [...]

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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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Jo Parfitt becomes Writer in Residence at The Hague Online

As from today, I become a kind of virtual writer in residence, or is that an ewriter in residence, at my favourite Hague based website, The Hague Online. Find me on the second Tuesday of the month, among the revamped sites collection of new columnists. I’ll be writing about whatever’s inspired me lately, like I [...]

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Jo Parfitt's July column at Expat Telegraph

If you want some inspiration to keep you writing from the Expat Rollercoaster, make sure you don’t miss my monthly column at the Telegraph. My latest one was about being inspired by travel and how to write an effective journal. You can find it here.

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Jo has column with Expat Telegraph

People often ask me how I manage to motivate myself to write so much (yeah, 25 books is quite a lot!) and I tell them that I have found ways to force myself into it. This time I have made a commitment to write a fortnightly column for the Expat Telegraph – that’s part of [...]

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