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Avril studied Human Resources (then called ‘Personnel Management’) at Teesside University, formerly Middlesbrough Polytechnic, where she graduated with a Diploma in Personnel Management and Chartered Membership of the Institute of Personnel and Development.   For almost ten years she worked in engineering and local government before leaving to follow a full time freelance writing career and to specialise in selling vintage postcards and other ephemera at flea markets and collectors’ fairs.

She has been writing for the business opportunities market for almost 20 years and is an eBay PowerSeller and editor of leading newsletter ‘eBay Confidential’.