Travel Books

Job Lead: Ghost Writer For Travel Book

Date: April 30th, 2008 |

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Pat and Cat Patterson have traveled 23,000 miles on bicycle, across 57 countries, over 4-years, and are currently looking for a ghost-writer to help them put together their travelogues for a book proposal.
The book is to have special focus towards Boomers as they hope to encourage (from their own example) “senior” people “get off their [read more]

Get Your Writing Critiqued For Free

Date: April 8th, 2008 |

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Over at Nerd’s Eye View you have an opportunity to write 200 words and get them critiqued by Angela Nickerson, traveler, photographer, and author of ‘’A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome“, as part of her virtual book tour.
The exercise is straight forward: write a 200 word (maximum) piece basis the prompt below and post a comment [read more]

Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides

Date: March 25th, 2008 |

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I subscribe to a million (not exaggerating) RSS feeds, from EVERYWHERE. I enjoy most I subscribe to, and I subscribe to new ones almost every day (yes, I’m obsessed) which is precisely why I often miss good stuff — that goes completely against the whole point of subscribing to feeds from cool sites. This interview [read more]

Frommer’s Travel Writing 101

Date: March 16th, 2008 |

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For those of you who missed this, at end of last year, Frommer’s came out with a Travel Writing 101 series of articles, written by Robert Haru Fisher: a contributing editor and columnist for Frommers.com, a former editor-in-chief of the Fodor Travel Guides, a former president of the Society of American Travel Writers and director [read more]

Job Lead: Freelance Travel-Writers Globe Pequot Press

Date: February 7th, 2008 |

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Give some insight on life of a travel-guidebook writer, and voila, a relevant job lead comes flying in!
Globe Pequot Press is looking for freelance travel-writers.
Wanted:
1) A cruising expert/writer/editor wanted to update a book of advice for cruise travelers.
2) Local writers in South Carolina and in the San Diego area
The work for the above involves [read more]

How Important Is Blogging For Your Career As A Travel-Writer?

Date: April 17th, 2008 |

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To blog or not to blog, that is the question (sorry for the awful rendition of a cliche). The upsurge and success of blogs in the online travel-publishing industry, has posed a hot question in the minds of accomplished and aspiring writers alike: what importance do we need to give to blogging (be it general [read more]

Call For Story Submissions: Traveling Mama

Date: March 29th, 2008 |

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I hadn’t seen the Traveling Mamas website before and I think it’s pretty cool. Run by 4 mothers who are professional travel-writers, the site has a neat travel blog with focused advice on family travel; worth a visit if you haven’t already.
Anyway, they are looking for 300-1000 word travel-themed stories for an anthology series. Possible [read more]

New Writing Website: The Midlist Writer

Date: March 19th, 2008 |

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Good friend, fellow traveler and writer Sean McLachlan (who has shared his advice for us here before), has entered the blogging world to share his writing experiences.
Sean has been to 20 countries on every continent (except Australia and Antartica), is author of Moon Guidebook to London, the Insider’s Guide to Phoenix, and Globe Pequot’s [read more]

Making Money As A Writer. Good Money.

Date: February 13th, 2008 |

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“It’s possible to make a good amount of money as a writer. Most writers don’t. You should assume, strictly for business purposes, that you won’t, or at the very least, won’t for a very long time. It’s not all about you, it’s also about the market. Don’t get defensive. The median personal income in the [read more]

The Harsh Realities Of Life As A Lonely Planet Travel-Writer

Date: February 7th, 2008 |

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Dreaming to write for the Lonely Planet is often where your inspiration to become a travel-writer comes from. I remember I frequently used to spend time in a book shop reading and taking down notes from the biographies of the writers of each LP edition: what their background was, what they aspired to, and if [read more]