Turn Here: Air Your Own Travel Show

Date: May 10th, 2006 |

If you’ve ever been bored with the Travel Channel, TURN HERE. It’s a super cool collection of video guidebooks.
Turn Here: Short Films. Cool Places.
With viral videos sweeping the Internet, it was only time before it got a travel spin. All I have to say is, Anthony Bourdain—get packing. The people among us are going to [read more]

Wandering Moleskine Project

Date: April 22nd, 2006 |

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My friends at Moleskinerie are launching a second WANDERING MOLESKINE PROJECT. I highly encourage writers and artists to participate. And lets give them some of our travel love! The first notebook will be released on May 1, 2006.
What’s funny about this, is that in reading the Moleskine post right now, I see my name is [read more]

Lovely By Surprise

Date: April 11th, 2006 |

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Is it a book? is it a movie? It’s Marian.
Daily Candy wrote up a bit about Marian Walker and LovelyBySurprise.
All I know, is that I need a big sponsor like Lincoln to tout my books and make me a cool flashy website with a movie trailer, and and and. Or just give me a car [read more]

Paper Source: Cool and Hip Stationery

Date: April 10th, 2006 |

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Waste Not Paper has great stationery. Because, you know, us writers can’t correspond on just any kind of paper. Well, unless it’s for a love letter. Given. However, this is a wholesale store. So, pretty much the only way to use them is if you have a retail license.
Retail shoppers can check out Paper Source. [read more]

Laptop Bags and other nerdy accessories

Date: March 30th, 2006 |

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The new laptop was worthy of a new bag, and I’m getting heaps of compliments. It’s a power sleeve from Booq. I got it at Melrose Mac in Burbank, but they’re available online. Even if you don’t have a Mac, you can use their Laptop Wizard to pick out a bag that would fit your [read more]

Sideways Printed Books

Date: May 10th, 2006 |

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I randomly found this weird but interesting book feature this morning.
Bed Books
That’s right, you can lay in bed, or on the couch, and not have to turn your neck, or the book, to get more comfortable. So far there have a bunch of classics in print, and the prices are affordable. Most of them [read more]

New Marketplace on Written Road

Date: April 17th, 2006 |

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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 sponsors [read more]

Put a States Map on your Blog, Website

Date: April 10th, 2006 |

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My friend Leigh shows me all sorts of cool stuff. Luckily she doesn’t mind me finding the gems on her site, and showing it to you over here on WR. Here’s the latest. Visited States Map
These are the only states I could remember having been to. Sorr [read more]

Story Lead: The World Cup Blog

Date: April 5th, 2006 |

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My good friends at BootsnAll are achieving their long time dream of attending the World Cup. And now that I want to do more story leads on Written Road, I figured this one is a natural.
So, if there are any of you out there with a reason to do an article about the World Cup, [read more]

Written Road Growth Spurt

Date: March 27th, 2006 |

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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]