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Rolf Potts: The Virtual Tour

Date: September 29th, 2008 |

Travel writer Rolf Potts just finished a Virtual Tour, doing numerous interviews all across the blogosphere, to celebrate the release of his new book Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer. There is loads of good stuff out there as a result. Here is a [read more]

Get Your Travel Book Noticed by Agents and Publishers– authonomy.com from HarperCollins

Date: September 5th, 2008 |

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If you’ve crafted your inspiring, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart rendering, memoir of weeks, months or years spent travelling the continents of the world then it’s definitely time to design a cover for it, get it out there and take a stab at getting published. Having a travel book published is the holy-grail for most [read more]

Wise words from Jonathan Lorie

Date: August 22nd, 2008 |

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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 genius [read more]

Introducing Anna, Kelly, and Tim…

Date: August 7th, 2008 |

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I want to formally introduce our three new writers here at Written Road: Kelly Anne Pipes, Tim Shisler, and Anna Brones. You will see their post here on the site begining next week. You can learn more about them and read their bios on our profile page. Each brings their own unique background in travel [read more]

The Tommy Kohnstamm Fallout

Date: April 16th, 2008 |

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Ok, so this LP thing is everywhere now. There are AP articles on the Yahoo homepage. Polls being given about the trustfullness of guidebooks. Boycotts of Do Travel Writers Go To Hell: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics & Professional Hedonism . An interview with Kohnstamm at World Hum (which I have to [read more]

How In Your Pocket’s re-vamped site acts as forum and practice ground

Date: September 14th, 2008 |

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In Your Pocket guides – synonymous with trustworthy local expertise – really came to the forefront of online and locally-distributed travel content via their coverage of emerging and expanding Eastern European destinations. I’ve caught up with Editor-in-chief, Craig Turp, for the latest news on their re-vamped website. Still at beta stage, the improved site aims [read more]

The British Guild of Travel Writers launch NEW website

Date: August 29th, 2008 |

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Founded in 1960, the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) is an association of over 270 professional writers, editors, photographers, producers, radio and television presenters involved in the world of travel. You’ll find Guild members names in by-lines to articles featured everywhere throughout the British press, on imprint pages of countless guidebooks and increasingly [read more]

Travellers’ Tales Announce Three Break-through Master Classes

Date: August 15th, 2008 |

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To continue the theme of Abha’s latest post, there’s lots to gain from one of Travellers’ Tales Travel Writing and Photography workshops; even if you’ve already nailed some paid commissions. They offer practice, practice and more practice, professional and peer appraisals and the chance to add a few more industry contacts to your address book. [read more]

Matador Launches 8 Million New Websites

Date: May 2nd, 2008 |

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I mean 8. Still, in the online travel website medium that’s muchissimo. This is good news for budding travel writers that want a entry level market to break in and earn enough for a few drinks. They now have 9 total sites:
MatadorTravel: Social network with blogs, photos, forums, paid travel writing.
MatadorTrips: Offers detailed destination guides [read more]

Someone Scratched My LP

Date: April 14th, 2008 |

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I don’t know if anyone has been following the news that has been creaping up all over the media the past few days, but guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has been hit by a renegade author, Thomas Kohnstamm, who is claiming that he sold drugs to compensate for his lousy authors salary, made up huge chunks [read more]

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