Travelers' Tales

San Francisco Adventure in Travel Expo

Date: September 27th, 2004 |

San Francisco Adventure in Travel Expo
October 8-10
San Mateo County Expo Center
Small myth. I will not be there. It’s very nice that they are listing me among the “World Renowned Authors who will be signing books at the SF ATE Show”, but I’ll be in Lansing, MI spreading the good word about Whose Panties Are [read more]

North Beach Festival

Date: June 18th, 2004 |

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Oh man, I’m missing the North Beach Festival! It's this weekend in San Francisco and I’ll be at UCLA for a graduation. This is an umpteen annual Travelers’ Tales tradition to have a booth there, give great discounts on our titles, drink micro brew, eat calimari, pizza, garlic chicken sandwiches, and have fun with [read more]

BEA 2004: ForeWord Awards

Date: June 5th, 2004 |

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ForeWord Magazine, a bi-monthly publication dedicated to reviewing books from independent publishers, announced their 2004 book awards yesterday at BEA. Big congratulations to these award winners:
Simon Winchester for The Meaning of Everything, Oxford University Press, Gold award in the History category
Thomas Swick, A Way to See the World, The Lyons Press, Silver Award in the [read more]

Editing Whose Panties Are These

Date: January 11th, 2004 |

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I'm in full gear editing the sequel to Sand in My Bra. I checked in with Travelers’ Tales this week, and Sean O’Reilly who reads most of the submissions as they come in, is sending me his grades on the batch. I’m looking forward to getting them because I think a lot came in since [read more]

Nothing but Good News

Date: July 2nd, 2003 |

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Sand in My Bra was named the 2nd best selling book for June at Wide World Books & Maps in Seattle. Hey Frasierheads, lets keep it up for next month too! I’ll be reading and signing books there Tuesday, September 9. Check out their July newsletter for other fun events and hot titles.
In other [read more]

Around the world in more than 75 anthologies

Date: July 11th, 2004 |

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It sure was fun to wake up this morning, reach for the Sunday Travel section, and find a big article on Travelers’ Tales. John Flinn, Travel Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote about our ten year anniversary in his weekly “Departures” column.
“Around the world in more than 75 anthologies”
But it was more than an [read more]

BEA 2004: A Different POV

Date: June 9th, 2004 |

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Thanks to Andie for sending in this BEA commentary from author and blogger Douglas Rushkoff.
I’ll have to read more in to it to see if it was his first time. It sounds like it was the way he reacted to the autographing area. Until last year, I’ve always been standing on the working side of [read more]

Travelers' Tales is 10 Years Old: Come Celebrate!

Date: March 3rd, 2004 |

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That's right, Travelers' Tales is celebrating one whole decade in travel book publishing!
It’s shocking. I met Larry Habegger at Book Passage where he was reading from their 2nd book, Mexico. I became their first intern during book three, India. And now their love, sweat, and tears have birthed more than 75 titles. The most recent [read more]

Sand in Montreal: Chapters and Indigo

Date: July 17th, 2003 |

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We're here! Me and the 200+ pounds of promotional material. Going through customs was a mixed bag. The first man,who looked at my passport, and me beneath his wiry silver frames, kept me at his booth a little while sizing up my business at the Just For Laughs Festival. After marking up my sheet, he [read more]

Sand Pics From Powell's

Date: June 30th, 2003 |

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Last week I posted that I had been to Powell’s in Portland and found copies of Sand in My Bra in the travel writing section. It's a big shelf, but I was able to turn the four copies to an optimal position.
I was also happy to see that they had chosen Rolf’s book Vagabonding for [read more]