It sure was fun to wake up this morning, reach for the Sunday Travel section, and find a big article on Travelers’ Tales. John Flinn, Travel Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote about our ten year anniversary in his weekly “Departures” column. “Around the world in more than 75 anthologies” But it was more […]
» Read more...Month: July 2004
Fodor’s and The Terminal
When I read the “Right This Way” post about Fodor’s getting a spot in the movie The Terminal, the PR girl in me wanted to know how they got such a good publicity score. In the movie, Tom Hanks’s “only source of knowledge of the outside world is a special-edition Russian-language Fodor’s Guide to New […]
» Read more...TravelComment.com: Can Travel Writers Stay Humble…Please?
I like Joel Widzer, author of The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel. And I was thrilled to read on TravelersTales.com that he had found another outlet to share his travel tips. But when I went to go check it out, I was pretty disappointed. Not in Joel, in their marketing copy. Their “About Us” […]
» Read more...Getting Work in Berlin
A friend asked me if I had any suggestions for a freelancer looking for writing work in Berlin. It's an odd request, but my friend was sincere so here’s the research I dug up:
» Read more...These Things Happen
On Friday night I got an email from Larry that said two of our book excerpts were being cut from the TOC. One was from Sarah Macdonald’s Holy Cow! and the other from It’s Not About the Tapas by Polly Evans. To fix this productionwise we re-added two original submissions that had been cut earlier […]
» Read more...Molvania, A.A.Gill, ELAND, and my friends
Sorry for being absent this week. Plenty going on, and I'm doing my best to balance getting my work done with awakening a latent social life. It continues to be a challenge to keep myself secluded, but I am trying. I did indulge in the pleasure of hanging out with Joe E and Philip Blazdell. […]
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