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 […]
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Get Your Writing Critiqued For Free
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 […]
» Read more...Call For Story Submissions: Traveling Mama
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. […]
» Read more...Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides
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...New Writing Website: The Midlist Writer
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...Job Lead: Freelance Travel-Writers Globe Pequot Press
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 […]
» Read more...The Harsh Realities Of Life As A Lonely Planet Travel-Writer
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...Quito Guidebook Writing Bootcamp – Change In Date
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 original post.
» Read more...Upcoming Guidebook Writing Boot Camps
Viva Travel Guide Books is holding a couple of week-long guidebook/travel writing crash courses over the next few months. They’re looking to train a select group of writers to be travel-writers; if you get chosen to part of the training, your internship will be to get out there and write a section of one of […]
» Read more...Free New eBook: Comprehensive Travel-Writing Tips
“If you are currently scribbling for free or can’t seem to move on from writing low paid SEO articles, this book will put you on the write track…” And also if “…you are feeling out-of-the-loop and unqualified, or a ‘wannabe’ accused of being personally responsible for bringing down the level of the travel industry by […]
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