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How to Get a Break as a Writer

Here is a book on the sticky subject of actually making a living as a writer. Hard hitting, tough talking, this book is frighteningly frank but also crammed with brilliant ideas, out of the box thinking and what boils down to over 100,000 words of common sense.

If I were to have written this book, it is exactly what I would have [...]

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Get paid to write articles at Suite101

Melinda Roos

I love it when my students have something to teach me and yesterday was no exception. Melinda Roos was attending my Definite Articles workshop in the Hague, and was thrilled to announce that she had just had an article accepted by a website called Suite101. Well, I had never heard of it! But [...]

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Author to Author interview with Stacie Berdan of Get Ahead by Going Abroad

One of the first things that I teach the students attending my book-writing workshops is that they need to have the authority to write about their chosen topic. I say they need to have ‘been there, done that and got the [...]

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How to turn what you know into a book that sells and sells . . .

Career in Your Suitcase is now in its 3rd edition, has sold over 5,000 copies and has made Jo Parfitt an expert on portable careers for expatriate [...]

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Tempo Team proactively trying to help dual career spouses in The Hague

I was delighted to meet two of the Tempo Team employees a couple of weeks ago. For, despite offering to brainstorm with many other recruitment agencies over the years, with a view to finding a solution to the dual career issue, they were the first, ever, to take me up on it.

On November 3rd at [...]

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