PORTRAIT of Florence Author of the novel Blijf bij Ons (Stay with Us) and a book of poems at Nieuw Amsterdam Publishers. Also works as an editor and freelance journalist. Writes for old and new media, in Dutch as well as English.	WORK I finished recently I published my first novel Blijf bij Ons at New Amsterdam Publishers. It's a story about a Dutch woman who ends up living in a remote Ukrainian village and over the course of a spring and summer, starts to uncover a number of secrets from local villagers who don't understand in the least what this woman is doing amongst them. So far, the newspaper De Volkskrant and two websites published three positive reviews. The background research for this novel I collected while living in Ukraine in 2006.	news my first novel is out The cover of my novel Stay with Us.
CONTACT via email Email: info[at sign]florencetonk.nl Or fill in the form below. Your message here		CLIENTS I have and had I gave courses on writing for internet for Mediamatic, taught copywriting at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, designed an internettraining for vdBJ. I wrote regularly for Hemels Publishers, Mediapartners as well as Unicef. I did copywriting for Studio Dumbar,Volkskrant Banen, Corus, DSM, wrote for Kidsweek, Lava Graphic Designers, produced booklets for Mikado, newsletters for the city of Amsterdam and ABN AMRO.	PEOPLE I work with I sincerely enjoy working with the Dutch author and editor Thomas Verbogt and editor Jasper Henderson. But also doing projects with Aart Jan Bergshoeff; Liesbeth den Boer (designer of the cover of my book of poetry); photographer Martijn de Vries, multi-talented Bob van den Berg and Hans Wolbers from Lava. And last but not least: GOOD Inc., better known as the lovable Luis Mendo (who designed this website).