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Guest Article: Ten Tips For Landing Great Features In Your Home Area

Date: January 9th, 2008 |

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 [read more]

Job Lead: Write Scripts for Audio and Video Travel Guides

Date: December 2nd, 2007 |

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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 job description: Translate, research, write, compile and [read more]

Solas Awards Deadline - October 15

Date: October 7th, 2007 |

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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 can [read more]

How Traveling Made Her a Writer…

Date: June 3rd, 2007 |

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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 useful [read more]

US Launch Tour: Lonely Planet Books

Date: May 25th, 2007 |

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Job Lead: Quebec City Guide Writer

Date: December 4th, 2007 |

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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 you [read more]

Quito Guidebook Writing Bootcamp - Change In Date

Date: October 18th, 2007 |

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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 orig [read more]

Write for Lonely Planet…

Date: August 9th, 2007 |

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…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 Facebook group [read more]

Job Lead: BUG Europe Travel Guide

Date: May 25th, 2007 |

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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 is set for completion this [read more]

Interview: Pauline Frommer

Date: May 21st, 2007 |

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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, [read more]

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