Pat and Cat Patterson have traveled 23,000 miles on bicycle, across 57 countries, over 4-years, and are currently looking for a ghost-writer to help them put together their travelogues for a book proposal. The book is to have special focus towards Boomers as they hope to encourage (from their own example) “senior” people “get off […]
» Read more...Month: April 2008
Be A World Hum Intern
World Hum is accepting interns in Washington D.C. Responsibilities: -Researching and writing blog posts. -Reviewing submissions. -Proofreading and formatting stories for posting on World Hum. Requirements: -Be passionate about travel, knowledgeable about travel on the web and, more so, familiar with World Hum. -Have an interest in a career writing or editing. -Journalism background is […]
» Read more...How Important Is Blogging For Your Career As A Travel-Writer?
To blog or not to blog, that is the question (sorry for the awful rendition of a cliche). The upsurge and success of blogs in the online travel-publishing industry, has posed a hot question in the minds of accomplished and aspiring writers alike: what importance do we need to give to blogging (be it general […]
» Read more...The Tommy Kohnstamm Fallout
Ok, so this LP thing is everywhere now. There are AP articles on the Yahoo homepage. Polls being given about the trustfullness of guidebooks. Boycotts of Do Travel Writers Go To Hell: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics & Professional Hedonism . An interview with Kohnstamm at World Hum (which I have to […]
» Read more...Someone Scratched My LP
I don’t know if anyone has been following the news that has been creaping up all over the media the past few days, but guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has been hit by a renegade author, Thomas Kohnstamm, who is claiming that he sold drugs to compensate for his lousy authors salary, made up huge chunks […]
» Read more...Live Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?
An eternal question for those getting into travel-blogging. Folks over at Europe A La Carte blog will have a live-blogging session on this topic. A group of travel-bloggers (list not yet disclosed) will talk about their blogs and there will be an open forum for you to interact with them — questions, comments, what you […]
» Read more...Wend Magazine Goes Digital; free issue
Wend Magazine, an Oregon based adventure sports print magazine has recently launched a digital version. Not only that they are giving away the first issue free. They still have the print version if you prefer, but actually a digital subscription is almost half as much.
» Read more...Questions with the NYT Travel Editor
Stuart Emmrich, travel editor of the New York Times, is answering questions from readers this week in the Talk to the Newsroom page. If you send them right now you still might be able to get one in. He’s givena few interesting answers so far that I thought I’d point out. Decent advice to say […]
» Read more...Independent UK Travel-Writing Competition
I smiled when I read about this competition: the prize is a 7-night trip for two to Kyrgyzstan 🙂 They have teamed up with Bradt Travel Guides, known for their travel guides to offbeat places — so I guess it makes sense. All writers can apply — published or unpublished. In the unpublished writers category […]
» Read more...Get Your Writing Critiqued For Free
Over at Nerd’s Eye View you have an opportunity to write 200 words and get them critiqued by Angela Nickerson, traveler, photographer, and author of ”A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome“, as part of her virtual book tour. The exercise is straight forward: write a 200 word (maximum) piece basis the prompt below and post a […]
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