Good news for you! Laurie King has turned her highly informative email newsletter, “The Travel Writers’ Calendar,” into a blog. This is terrific news and will provide you with additional market leads for your travel writing. Currently, her newsletter is heavy on Bay Area info and events, but there are still plenty of submission guidelines, […]
» Read more...Month: January 2004
Sarah Macdonald
Ok, who has read HOLY COW! An Indian Adventure? The cover of the book says “The International Bestseller” Apparently it came out in 2002. Sarah is an Aussie, a Triple M DJ from Sydney that left her job, and a life on the run from a stalker, to go be with her true love while […]
» Read more...Book Trade Info in Britain
And if you want to know what’s going on in Britain’s book world, check out BookTrade.info. I like their directory section. Some of it is slim, but it’s neat for me to see a different market. In addition to the links you’ll find on their directory listings, here’s their Booktrade Resources. If you want to […]
» Read more...Publishing Jobs
Have you seen the new and improved Publishers Weekly website? It’s a great source for keeping up with the latest and greatest in the book world. And if you’re trying to get a job in publishing, or climb the literary ladder you’re already on…here’s their job page: Publishing Jobs I liked seeing that NYC wasn’t […]
» Read more...Expanding Your Audience
Work with Google to put your content in front of millions of readers If you’re an established publisher, author, or agent, you may be able to benefit from the Google Print program. By participating, you increase the potential audience for your content by making it available to millions of Google search users. Google Print pages […]
» Read more...Balancing Writing and Acquiring New Ideas
I got a great piece of fan mail this week. It happens from time to time, but this one was especially well written and I’m sure I’ll use part of it on a testimonial page someday. But here’s the thing. Travel writers are a bit counter cultural. Salmon with pens and paper. While on one […]
» Read more...Review of Literary Blogs
This is definitely worth a read. Too bad I’m too busy to give all those cool sounding blogs a looksee. Comfort of Strangers
» Read more...More Awards
I wanted to blog about awards today and was shocked to discover that I’d missed the deadline for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards (June 15, 2004) I guess I was too busy being all excited about winning the NATJA award, that I missed signing up for the ForeWord award. Travelers’ Tales has […]
» Read more...The Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show
As you know, I was excited about coming to this. I'm pleased to say that I wasn't let down. Chris and I had planned to go both Saturday and Sunday. As it turned out we were able to get plenty from our Saturday visit and decided to skip the long haul into town today. The […]
» Read more...Gawker is Hiring a Travel Blogger
Oh Baby, this sounds like it's going to be a GREAT travel blog. Go Gawker! Best of luck if you apply! “Gawker’s publisher is hiring an editor for a forthcoming weblog about global travel. Now, simmer down: you don’t actually get to GO anywhere. However, there are other perks: you get to work at home […]
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