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 bloggingThis week, Anne O’Connell’s brand new book, @home in Dubai, is launched! Anne is a PR consultant, lives in Phuket, Thailand, and is running a PR campaign from her home by the sea. Inevitably, the backbone of her campaign will be a blog tour. In this ten minute interview, Anne shares the secrets of her virtual book tour, taking place this week all over the [...]  booksWhen a professional writer and PR expert writes a book you can bet that she knows what she is doing. Anne O’Connell began with the end in mind when she began work on @home in Dubai, a book that details the nitty gritty of getting through red tape in this popular Emirate. She began with a survey and is enlisted the help of countless expats living there already in order to create this comprehensive book. To find out from the experts how to get your marketing right you cannot afford to miss this interview [...] interviews & new releasesI have just read this super book in one sitting. Written clearly and accessibly, reading Kama’s words is like sitting down over a cup of tea with a friend. With a lifetime of international moves behind her, a divorce, the experience of an empty nest (and her children in another country), few authors could be more suited to writing such a book. The Happy Migrant. I love the title and the book’s content and voice is consistent with the cheery, upbeat tone of its words. Divided into chapters, covering before the move, leaving family and friends, embracing the new location and relationships, Kama has shared every scrap of her experience and knowledge, it’s evident from her ideas and solutions that she knows a lot about spirituality, mindfulness, Neuro Linguistic Programming and counselling techniques. Each chapter has checklists and tasks and that makes the book practical as well as [...] booksI spoke to the very switched-on editor of a super magazine to which I subscribe. Jane Rowland not only knows a heap about self-publishing she even does some marketing for authors too. Listen to Jane talk about current trends and marketing must-dos. Self-Publishing magazine is quarterly, now available online and will have an article by me in it on crossing genres in the January 2012 issue. [...] interviews & new releasesHelen Maffini knew she wanted to write a fiction book for young expat children a while ago. When she eventually decided to do it all herself and publish it herself she did everything virtually, embracing new technology. From finding designers and illustrators online, using a virtual publishing company and converting it to print and Kindle, she has done it all, even opening a US bank account before she even started. If you want to do this yourself, then listen to Helen’s journey and learn everything you can from a new [...] tipsHelen Maffini is an educational consultant who lives and works all over the world. The author of Sammy’s Next Move, she is passionate about helping third culture kids settle into their new [...] interviews & new releasesUnlike many of the memoirs I feature on my blog, this is a different kettle of fish. It is a ‘how to’ book. How to books tend to sell better than memoirs because they solve a problem. If you were looking to buy a property in Portugal the chances are you would type something like ‘buy house Portugal’ into a search engine and lo! Gabby’s book would appear. That a second edition will be out any day now is testament to the fact that how to books are popular. [...] competitionsThe ExpatWomen confessions page has been a winner from the start. Here, brave, anonymous but hurting women living overseas could ask their questions of an expert and receive lengthy, immensely helpful replies in exchange from the professionals. This anthology contains 50 of them. 50 questions that I’d wager many of us STARS (that stands for Spouses Travelling and Relocating Successfully) have longed to ask at one time or another. Questions that need [...] about meMy last post, the Big Ask, mentioned how giving is the first rule of networking and how asking is the second. The post focused on what to ask for. With Christmas around the corner thoughts turn more easily to giving than to receiving and to asking, of course, so I thought I would share with you [...] booksI 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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