Off and on, we here at Written Road get the privilege of published writers sharing their expertise. Sean McLachlan, book author and freelance journalist (and Madrid Writer’s Group buddy! 🙂 was kind enough to allow us to reproduce a piece of his, originally published on www.writing-world.com; the one you will read below is an updated […]
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Job Lead: Quebec City Guide Writer
Globe Pequot Press is looking for a travel-guide writer to cover Quebec City, Canada. The book will be 64-pages and will include the regular categories of sights, shopping, entertainment, restaurants and hotels. A few travel-guide writers, including Written Road’s very own travel-guide expert Nicholos Gill and Moon Handbook author Sean McLachlan, told me that once […]
» Read more...Job Lead: Write Scripts for Audio and Video Travel Guides
Podasia.net, a website that allows you to download free travel guide podcasts, is expanding into providing video content for guides and integrating with online and print travel publications. For this, they are looking for freelancers interested in generating content for specific theme-based travel guides. Current countries of interest are: -India -China -Vietnam -Japan -Singapore Basic […]
» Read more...Quito Guidebook Writing Bootcamp – Change In Date
We posted about Viva’s travel-guidebook-writing bootcamp last week; we’ve been notified of a date change. Instead of November 19-23, the Quito Bootcamp will be from November 26-30, 2007. For more info, check out original post.
» Read more...Solas Awards Deadline – October 15
Deadline for Travelers’ Tales annual competition to honor excellence in travel writing — The Solas Awards — is a week away. (Although you can enter year round) For those not familiar with Travelers’ Tales or the Solas Awards, go to www.BestTravelWriting.com for more information and how to enter. There are 21 categories in which you […]
» Read more...Write for Lonely Planet…
…on FACEBOOK. Yes, oh my goodness – everyones on it! It seems to be invading the Internet by becoming this super informative portal where you can interact with anyone and everyone you’ve wanted to. I wonder how long this fad will last. Anyway, coming to the point: I might have caught on to this LP […]
» Read more...How Traveling Made Her a Writer…
Check out a great interview on Gadling with founder or Seal Press Barbara Sjoholm. The interview has been done by our very own Kelly Amabile, and is in the context of one of Barbara’s latest books “Incognito Street: How Traveling Made Me A Writer”. The interview is inspiring and full of bits of advice and […]
» Read more...Job Lead: BUG Europe Travel Guide
The Backpackers Ultimate Guide (BUG) is looking to fill 12 one-month long travel research positions for a Europe travel guide. The job would involve: -reviewing hostels (100-150 words per hostel) -couple of introductory paragraphs for each destination (100-500 words each) -writing about eating & drinking sections for the larger destinations (100-500 words each) The work […]
» Read more...US Launch Tour: Lonely Planet Books
2)Unlikely Destinations:The Lonely Planet Story, jointly written by both Tony and Maureen Wheeler: Clear from it’s title, this book talks about the 36-year evolution of Lonely Planet from a barely stapled guide written by two travelers on the road, to the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher. When: The couple will be hopping around the United […]
» Read more...Interview: Pauline Frommer
Pauline Frommer, daughter of American Travel writing legend Arthur Frommer, has built a successful career in her own right and last year began releasing her own line of guidebooks, which have been highly acclaimed for her “Spend less, see more,†approach. She was kind enough to grant Written Road a candid interview. See articles, podcasts, […]
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