Jo Parfitt

Jo Parfitt

I am an author, publisher (Summertime Publishing), mentor, teacher & editor, with over 30 years' experience and 30 books published. My motto is 'sharing what I know to help others to grow', which hs has been the core of all I do for several decades.

About Your Guide

Jo Parfitt has been a writer for five decades. Now back in the UK after 30 years abroad living in Dubai, Oman, Norway, the Netherlands and Malaysia, she specialises in books by and for people living overseas, personal development and self-help. While she has written more than 32 books and mentored more than 300 new authors, her work extends to a busy publishing, teaching and mentoring practice. After founding Summertime Publishing in 1997 she works with a small team offering a complete, 'by your side' hybrid publishing service under the imprints Summertime Publishing and Springtime Books. She has set up and run writers' circles all over the world and taught her How to Write Life Stories, Life Writing and Memoir Programmes wherever she finds herself. Since 2012 she has been running residential writing retreats in various locations with Spain and Italy on the annual schedule. Fortunately she also runs her classes online. Details of her services, retreats, classes and client testimonials can be found on her website www.joparfitt.com.
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In Conversation Masterclasses

In Conversation Masterclasses

Join me as I facilitate inspiring and practical conversations with experts on a range of topics that will help you become better writers and authors. Learn about everthing from marketing your book to editing, story arcs and journalling. New episodes will be added monthly.

2 hours 38 minutes

Write Your Life Stories: add SPICE to your life

Write Your Life Stories: add SPICE to your life

This eight lesson home study course will teach you my unique SPICE tool that unlocks the secret to writing compelling stories based on your experiences. Each lesson provides a Limbering Up exercise and a Task to get you putting pen to paper. Be inspired, not only by the clear and practical instructions, but also by writings on those very same tasks created by my students. In addition to eight audio files you can also download a workbook that contains the same content, a SPICE chart for you to use and a video showing me teaching an introduction to my method in a classroom. This same method has been taught at the Watermill at Posara in Tuscany since 2012 in a residential retreat situation, in the Netherlands, Malaysia and online. Well over a 1000 students have learned its methods and many have gone on to publish their own memoirs.

2 hours 40 minutes

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