And as a follow up to last week’s post … …I asked Jonathan Lorie, the director of Travellers’ Tales and ex-editor of Traveller magazine, a few questions. How much of a traveller writer’s success depends upon their raw talent and how much comes from hard work, determination and practice? “You don’t need to be a […]
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Job Lead: Ghost Writer For Travel Book
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...Written Road at the Bloggers Choice Awards
So we have been nominated – thanks Taylor, you rock! Friends, readers, bloggers, writers and travellers: we have one vote. 🙁 So, if this blog has meant anything to you, ever, please go vote for us!
» Read more...Thanks and Farewell
During this weekend of thanks I’d like to express my deepest gratitude to the incredibly supportive community of readers, writers and travelers that I’ve encountered during my stint as a Written Road contributor. Through this engaging interactive network I’ve been able to grow my very own global network of friends, colleagues and inspirational travel-lovin’ role […]
» Read more...Written Road Newsletter August 15, 2006
Hello everyone. I’m on my way up to San Francisco to celebrate What Color Is Your Jockstrap?, my fourth humor title with Travelers’ Tales. We’re having a special event at Book Passage with the one and only Tim Cahill tomorrow night. If you didn’t already know, his stories in Outside magazine more than a decade […]
» Read more...Road Recovery
Hey Written Roadies… I’m fresh off a five month jaunt through Europe and am currently recovering at my folks place in New York while I plot my next moves. The journey was incredible…and I’ve got memories (and stories!!) to last a lifetime…that means a lot more writing in my future. This is just a quick […]
» Read more...Introducing Terah Shelton
I’ve been promising the addition of new volunteer writers on Written Road so we can expand this community, and we finally got it going! Kelly Amabile was our first and is off seeing the world with more than 100 days under her belt. Now, Terah Shelton is here and she’s already been at it for […]
» Read more...New Marketplace on Written Road
Hey everybody, I’m really excited to show you our new Marketplace. See that colorful button on the side? That’s for you. I get lots of inquiries from publishers and travel companies that want me to talk about their product. Well, now, they can say what they want to say. The Marketplace is a page where […]
» Read more...Written Road Growth Spurt
Hey Everybody, I just wanted to let you know that Written Road is going through a big growth spurt. We’re going to be adding writers, putting up some ads, and sending out a weekly newsletter. I’ve recruited some help with the content, and BootsnAll is pitching in with staff and tech help so that we […]
» Read more...Where Are You Reading Written Road From?
I’ve always been thrilled to hear from Written Road fans from all over the world including India, France, South Africa, Australia, Costa Rica, etc. But now I just found this cool map that lets you easily flag which part of the world you’re from. Lets see how many different places we can find fans in. […]
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