The Webby Awards are about to announce their 2002 winners and they are currently accepting votes for the People’s Voice Award. As you can see from my links, I’m a World Hum fan and I tell plenty of people about their great site. I also use Lonely Planet.com all the time–and wouldn’t plan a trip […]
» Read more...Month: May 2002
Working for free
Richard Sterling, editor of Travelers’ Tales Food, and The Adventure of Foodamong others, and author of many Lonely Planet World Food Guides, including Hong Kong, Vietnam, Spain, and Greece, asked me to write a personal story for his upcoming LP World Food Guide to California. He isn’t offering any payment, and I’m going to have […]
» Read more...Focusing Retreat…I think
Have you ever been anywhere or met anyone where everything felt and fit right? It’s happened to me only a few times in my adult life. For those of you that know me well, you’re quite aware that it happened to me almost exactly two years ago when I met the BootsnAll Boyz. They were […]
» Read more...“On the Road Less Traveled with Jen Leo”
I’ve been holding out on you. I’ve been offered the position of hosting a radio show on the women’s channel for Sirius Satellite Radio. It’ll be a weekly hour long program called“On the Road Less Traveled with Jen Leo.” Satellite radio has not reached the west or east coasts yet, so that gives me some […]
» Read more...Travelers’ Tales Submission Call!
Hey travel writers, Here is the current list of books that Travelers’ Tales is taking submissions for. Before you submit, check out the writer’s guidelines, and even better, buy a book or read some sample chapters online to get a feel for our style. Good luck, and feel free to ask me any questions about […]
» Read more...Stories of World Travel event @ Easy Going
The event went well enough, but our expectations have risen to a high level rather quickly. At 40 people in the room, it didn’t have near the attendance or book sales as the previous year, but Audrey, Michael and the gang were happy to see our return. Stories of World Travel is their leading non-guidebook […]
» Read more...“The Art of Writing Travel Literature”
Tonight, the Wild Writing Women have an event at Easy Going Travel Shop and Bookstore. I’ll be mediating the panel discussion following the readings, and just threw together a few topics that we could discuss. I know it’s a bit late to notify you about the event so that you can come, but please let […]
» Read more...Kipen calls us “the Bay Area’s own travel-writing supergroup”
The Saturday of our return from the BEA, the Wild Writing Women were happy to see our names in David Kipen’s book column in the San Francisco Chronicle. I’m not sure which was more fun, reading that David Kipen suggested that Oprah would be proud of us, or getting Jacqueline’s alert email that morning. Check […]
» Read more...BEA 2002: small publishers v. bigger publishers
It is interesting that when authors are touting their books for publication, they often look to the big houses first because that’s where the money is. Now of course I’m generalizing, but I think you can see the logic in that. After all, an author who has just toiled for what possibly could have been […]
» Read more...Submission Call for humor stories! Paying $$!!
Yes, I still have a long way to go before I finish updating Book Expo America 2002 in NYC, but Jacqueline sent this to the Wild Writing Women today, and I couldn’t resist passing it on… Smithsonian Magazine has a call out for humor stories (Hey, don’t forget so do I!) Here are the details: […]
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