“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room,” can often be heard from award winning photographer and writer Alison Wright. Ali got her due respect this week from the Society of American Travel Writers. Yesterday they had their award ceremonies in Hawaii and Ali won SATW’s Gold Award for Photographer […]
» Read more...Month: October 2002
On a personal note…
It’s a bad week to not be in SF Jamie Oliver was in town
» Read more...Travel writing groups on Yahoo
I can’t believe I’m making the time for these listserve writing groups, but I love hearing other peoples’ news in our field, and there’s good info to be found in them. Here is a link to Yahoo’s groups on travel writing. I’m not sure how many of them are public since I saw the Wild […]
» Read more...Panic
I woke up this morning thinking it was after the 31st and that I’d forgotten to write up and turn in an entry for the Bakpak Travelers Guide Travel Writer Essay Contest. I just can’t pass up an opportunity to try and get a free trip to Oz. Especially if the reward would be getting […]
» Read more...So, it’s the author’s job?
When I worked at Travelers’ Tales, we submitted several of our books for awards every year. And we won awards every year. The titles that did win often got award stickers to place on the covers and it was good press for us as publishers. Needlesstosay it was an ego boost for the authors as […]
» Read more...Story angle after story angle
I’m fascinated by this web site: Infiltration A zine about going places you’re not supposed to go. Such as abandoned sites, hotels & hospitals, transit tunnels, buildings and offices. This could be just the thing to satisfy my crime fantasies without actually taking any gems. And as a writer, just think of the multitude of […]
» Read more...441 blogs on Writing/Publishing
Eatonweb’s portal of blogs on Writing/Publishing. This is going to take me a while to go through, and I’ll probably sift through the travel blogs first. I’ll let you know if I find anything I get attached to.
» Read more...Guerilla Marketing For Your Book
An author is paying me to get more attention for his book by “recommending” it to other similarly themed books on Amazon.com. He has tried this out and it comes down to the fact that you can only do it twice a day otherwise the spam detectives delete your posts. How does it work? Each […]
» Read more...More on the Corleones
Random House is on the big hunt for an author to continue writing the “Godfather” now that Puzo has passed. This makes me happy. Searching For The Next Puzo
» Read more...NATJA Awards–call for entries
The North American Travel Journalists Association is accepting award entries until Nov. 1. It costs $50 to enter or $25 if you are a member and there are free domestic trips in the award packages. There are heaps of different catergories, but in my opinion light in the online department. In fact, there is no […]
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