Amazon Connect Launches Today

By Jen Leo | February 1st, 2006 |

Amazon.com is launching an ingenious feature today.
Amazon Connect allows authors to post messages (or blog) to their audience from their book pages. Here’s my page so you can see... [Read this entry]

USA Today: Top Travel Jobs

By Jen Leo | January 20th, 2006 |

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Big congrats to our friend Don George who was interviewed today in USA Today!
Jayne Clark wrote a bunch of articles addressing the employment ins and outs of those lucky... [Read this entry]

Corporate Canaries: A Die Hard Author

By Jen Leo | January 18th, 2006 |

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I just read the entire article, “A Word (Or Two, Or Three) About Persistence” by Lucas Conley. If you are in the process of promoting your book, it’d be good... [Read this entry]

A Million Little Pieces Revealed

By Jen Leo | January 10th, 2006 |

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If you love the literary world, you must keep on top of the Book Standard. Today they had an article that caught my crime loving eye…Hiding and Lying: Two Authors... [Read this entry]

Drew Barrymore Wants to Be a Travel Writer

By Jen Leo | January 7th, 2006 |

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If Drew Barrymore wants to be a travel writer, then she should have at it! We’re always saying it’s not rocket science, and she certainly has the bankroll to do... [Read this entry]

Bill Bryson Wins the Decartes Prize

By Jen Leo | December 7th, 2005 |

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Our hero Bill takes a top prize for his non-travel book. A Short History of Nearly Everything is still about our world, our planet, and all things global—in a sense—but... [Read this entry]

Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer

By Jen Leo | November 24th, 2005 |

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Big thanks to Michael Shapiro for pointing out that Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer have been in the press recently. I’ve been remiss in reading my Google News Alerts... [Read this entry]

Book Passage: Day 1

By Jen Leo | August 19th, 2005 |

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Lets give a friendly hello to all the new writers coming to Written Road from the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference. If you want to get straight to... [Read this entry]

Wil Wheaton the Writer

By Jen Leo | August 7th, 2005 |

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Last night I heard Wil Wheaton give a banquet speech to a roomful of poker enthusiasts at the Las Vegas Club in downtown Vegas. It was the final night in... [Read this entry]

Anne Lamott is Blogging

By Jen Leo | June 15th, 2005 |

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Hey all you Anne Lamott fans….she’s blogging! She’s writing for TPM Cafe: Politics, Ideas, and Lots of Caffeine. So far her posts have been coming in roughly once a week.... [Read this entry]

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