About Written Road

Jen Leo’s resource for travel writers, www.WrittenRoad.com, may seem like a simple online journal at first glance. In actuality, it is a virtual café with an international readership that has been growing since 2002. Through a lively daily blog, award-winning travel writer and editor Jen Leo shares her experiences in the publishing industry and provides a daily scoop on travel writing as she makes her way as an editor, writer, and traveling socialite. The site is a unique and refreshingly honest view into the life of an emerging author, a personal, day-by-day account of the process of changing from an unknown to an accomplished professional. Along the way, there are practical discussions of market leads, author events, marketing tactics, travel books, a writer’s philosophical quandaries, and perhaps most importantly, a few inspirational triumphs. Readers most enjoy her news of notable writers, new travel books worth reading, submission guidelines, and the individual support they receive.

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Jen Leo is a magnet for misadventure and always ready to gamble on having a good time. She is the editor of the best-selling Travelers’ Tales women’s humor series, including the award-winning Sand in My Bra, Whose Panties Are These?, and The Thong Also Rises. You can find Jen’s writing in books and magazines such as A Woman’s Passion for Travel, Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why, Lonely Planet The Best of Las Vegas, TIME, Playboy, Student Traveler, Audrey, BLUFF, and Women Poker Player, among others. She divides her time between California and Las Vegas where she writes for VivaLasVegasBlog.com between adventures in the poker world. Check in with JenLeo.com to find out what she’s up to next.

At 27, Abha Malpani was born in India, has lived in England, has graduated from Australia and has worked in Dubai. After a 4-year working spell in film production, advertising and public relations in Dubai, she quit her job about a year ago to live in Spain, learn Spanish and write. Immersing herself in different cultures and traveling is her adrenaline, and so far she has learned to dance Son in Cuba, braided her hair in Jamaica, lived in a tribal village in Thailand and driven across Portugal. A budding and aspiring writer, Abha currently writes for Urban Travel Guide Gridskipper, teaches English, blogs on her personal site, and is in the middle of a journalism course and a Spanish certification. Currently living in Madrid, she is working on figuring out where she wants to plant some roots. Salsa-dancing keeps her sane and she hopes that one day she will make a living from traveling and writing.

Nicholas Gill is the author of two guidebooks, Peru Adventure Guide (2007) and Travellers Chile (2007), and has contributed to several others. He has visited more than 50 countries and written on many of them. Food and restaurants, travel narratives, photography, extreme sports, and Latin America are among his principal subjects and his work has appeared in the Columbus Dispatch, Citizen Culture, Urban Daddy, AOL, Suite101, Europe from a Backpack, Student Traveler, and Transitions Abroad, among others. He currently lives with his wife Claudia in Lima, Peru and Columbus, Ohio. You can visit his personal website www.nicholas-gill.com.