Ellroy thriller is a "good" move; Annie Jones learnt that joining the cast of an awful sitcom is a "bad" one. 9. Master accents: You'll never escape the emotional gulag of soap opera history if you hang around in Australia, playing Australians. That's why Georgie Parker has now come full circle. If you want to get out, get good at playing other nationalities. Russell Crowe mastered American, English, and Roman-speaking-English-in-English-accent\\... while Alan Dale is now known as "the man of a thousand accents", rather than "Jim Robinson". Admittedly all of those accents sound like Jim Robinson, but that is not the point. 10. Be young and attractive: I can't stress this enough. Hemsworth, Fisher, Pearce, Minogue, Watts -- all saw their careers blossom after making the decision to be young and appealing. So there you are, soapsters. Apply these principles, and you'll have left your past behind quicker than you can say, "Where to now for Tammin Sursok?" Off you go now -- good luck, and may you end up more Kwanten than Elmaloglou.