Brett Evans

That helps you, you know, determine or makes you aware of what you should and shouldn't do.

And then I just got sick of it living there in my head and decided stupidly one day to, you know, reach out to the team at Wiley who are an amazing team.

And they're like, yep, we love it.

Give us a manuscript in two months, 76,000 words.

for those folks out there you've written a book or done an intense university assignment you know every night at home after work you're on the book every weekend you're on the book so you don't regret it but the hardest thing about writing the book was i want it to be appealing to everyone both people who are considering becoming an expat those who are living as an expat and those who are returning as an expat so depending on where you are in your expat journey you can tap into those different phases in terms of uh what steps you should employ um

I think these days people don't like big tomes of text.

So writing it in a handbook style, breaking down the concepts because they are quite foreign to a lot of folks.

I don't care whether you're a CEO or pulling pints.

People do struggle to grapple with the different considerations that are going on.

So to me it was putting it away that whether you move into the UK, US, Russia, Dubai, Singapore, everyone would fairly get out of it.

There's so many rabbit holes I almost went down into country-specific stuff but I had to back out.

Exactly.

Yeah, do's and don'ts, do's and don'ts, case studies, checklists.

I think in expat land checklists are a big thing and really just sort of try to make it – I don't think finance books can be fun but a bit engaging.

That's the big thing I tried to get across was I want to see photos of people's books with scribbled notes and like a true survivor guide.

Remember the Lonely Panic guides we all used to travel with years ago and they would get handed around and that's what I want this book to be.

Yeah, getting lots of photos and lots of feedback, which has been good.

I mean, I haven't had a chance to even talk to the team yet about numbers, but fingers crossed it's been going well.

And as I said, the feedback's been fantastic.

No one's asked for refunds, which is always a good thing.