A Writer's Life

My Interview On Write-To-Travel!

Date: November 21st, 2007 |

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I had the privilege of being interviewed (as a travel-writer!) by KiwiWriter for her wonderfully resourceful travel-writing blogs Write-To-Travel.
It’s my first proper interview and I’m thrilled. I must be doing something right!
Check it [read more]

Market Leads

Date: October 24th, 2007 |

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Sorry I’ve been slacking on my posts lately, I’m up to my neck in guidebook work, not to mention took a few days off to run to Vegas, and have had to put a few other projects to the side for the time being. I have about 6 weeks of traveling divided among Peru, Honduras, [read more]

A Few Blogging Tips

Date: September 29th, 2007 |

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Since most of you who read this blog are writers, or want to be writers, I’m assuming you all have blogs.
My turtle has a blog, so if you don’t and you want to be a writer, you are nowhere close to being one. In other words, start a blog now. For those who blog [read more]

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Date: September 13th, 2007 |

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I seem to be having many a over-blogging and under-blogging phases here on Written Road.
Phases of being swamped, uninspired, hungover; phases of my eyes wanting to bleed from the number of hours glued to the screen; phases of sitting those number of hours and watching the best of YouTube leaving me tired and brain [read more]

Hidden Europe

Date: August 29th, 2007 |

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Summer is almost over here in Madrid. People are starting to get back to work and not wearing shorts anymore.
Other than a zillion visitors (aka sangria and more sangria) throughout summer, I haven’t really done much other than urrr…ummm…browse the Internet. See, it is part of my job you know
Anyway, I repeatedly [read more]

Swamped But Loving It

Date: October 25th, 2007 |

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Sorry from my end also for being a bit lax on posting here. I’ve been over my head blogging (not writing )
Other than Written Road, I now write for Gadling, Vagablogging, Gridskipper, and Map Magazine — am committed to doing a minimum of 26 posts a week (!!!!!!), that doesn’t include my own personal [read more]

First Book Signing Recap

Date: October 8th, 2007 |

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Before I give the details, let me first say that I did try to arrange a book signing at my favorite independent book store, The Book Loft, in Columbus, Ohio, but they never got back to me.
Anyway, I’ll exlain the process because I’m sure a few people are interested in doing the same sort of [read more]

Beer With KiwiWriter

Date: September 22nd, 2007 |

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I seem to love cross-continental networking with fellow travel-writers. It’s fun, inspiring and you can always take something away from it.
I recently had the privilege of meeting with KiwiWriter Liz Lewis of Write-To-Travel. She was on her way to NY to have lunch with Wendy Perrin of Conde Nast Traveler (she won it through a [read more]

The Beginning Of Travel-Publishing?

Date: September 3rd, 2007 |

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Ever wondered when the travel-publishing industry began, in what form, by whom, how, and with what intention?
Honestly, I never did until I came across this piece on an exhibition that is displaying a set of Europe’s first printed travel images and maps from the Middle Ages and Renaissance period.
In those days, traveling to faraway [read more]

Building a Travel Website

Date: August 16th, 2007 |

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I’ve been thinking lately how I can be more web savvy and prepared for the future of travel writing, hence I’ve decided to begin devoting more time to creating my own website. There are a number of great guidebook writers that have turned to the web, and from what I can tell they are doing [read more]