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74 postsAFAR: A New Travel Magazine!!!
Yesterday I received the premier issue of AFAR magazine in the mail. I was beyond impressed. There were travel stories about off beat international locals and there wasn't a tie in to a Marriot resort to…
Read more →Shameless Self Promotion: New World Review Launches
I've become increasingly worried about the state of the media as newspapers cut staff and magazines fold left and right, so I have felt a growing urge to begin posting something significant on the web. It…
Read more →Happy 8th Birthday World Hum!
One of the biggest names in the realm of online travel writing, World Hum , is celebrating its 8th anniversary this Friday! The site is celebrating all week long with special content, starting off with…
Read more →Writing and Photography Holidays from the Experts - newly featured on Tourdust.com
Read on if you've always fancied swapping your home office or the local wi-fi enabled coffeeshop for some on-location writing and photography training. Authentic tour and accommodation website, Tourdust…
Read more →Online Travel Content - movers and shakers get together
It's certainly been a busy couple of weeks for the online travel community, with bloggers, developers, start ups and long-established travel companies chewing the cud together on the future of travel.…
Read more →Rolf Potts: The Virtual Tour
Travel writer Rolf Potts just finished a Virtual Tour, doing numerous interviews all across the blogosphere, to celebrate the release of his new book Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations…
Read more →How In Your Pocket's re-vamped site acts as forum and practice ground
In Your Pocket guides – synonymous with trustworthy local expertise – really came to the forefront of online and locally-distributed travel content via their coverage of emerging and expanding Eastern…
Read more →Get Your Travel Book Noticed by Agents and Publishers– authonomy.com from HarperCollins
If you've crafted your inspiring, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart rendering, memoir of weeks, months or years spent travelling the continents of the world then it's definitely time to design a cover…
Read more →The British Guild of Travel Writers launch NEW website
Founded in 1960, the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW) is an association of over 270 professional writers, editors, photographers, producers, radio and television presenters involved in the world of…
Read more →Wise words from Jonathan Lorie
And as a follow up to last week's post ... ...I asked Jonathan Lorie, the director of Travellers' Tales and ex-editor of Traveller magazine, a few questions. How much of a traveller writer's success…
Read more →Travellers' Tales Announce Three Break-through Master Classes
To continue the theme of Abha's latest post, there's lots to gain from one of Travellers' Tales Travel Writing and Photography workshops; even if you've already nailed some paid commissions. They offer…
Read more →Introducing Anna, Kelly, and Tim...
I want to formally introduce our three new writers here at Written Road: Kelly Anne Pipes, Tim Shisler, and Anna Brones. You will see their post here on the site begining next week. You can learn more…
Read more →Matador Launches 8 Million New Websites
I mean 8. Still, in the online travel website medium that's muchissimo. This is good news for budding travel writers that want a entry level market to break in and earn enough for a few drinks. They now…
Read more →The Tommy Kohnstamm Fallout
Ok, so this LP thing is everywhere now. There are AP articles on the Yahoo homepage. Polls being given about the trustfullness of guidebooks. Boycotts of Do Travel Writers Go To Hell: A Swashbuckling Tale…
Read more →Someone Scratched My LP
I don't know if anyone has been following the news that has been creaping up all over the media the past few days, but guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has been hit by a renegade author, Thomas Kohnstamm…
Read more →Travel Channel Acquires Vagabondish
Breaking news from the travel-publishing industry: Discovery's Travel Channel has bought over Vagabondish . First it was World Hum, now this -- both are great examples of small scale, personal projects…
Read more →NYC & Italy Travel Writing Classes w/Michael Luongo
Travel Writer and Editor Michael Luongo , who we interviewed at Written Road last April, will be holding several travel writing workshops in the coming months: New York University's Global Traveler…
Read more →Lonely Planet Expands Pick and Mix; others following suit
Is this the start of things to come? Last August we reported that Lonely Planet began offering certain chapters of their South America guides for download -that can be printed out when needed or viewed on…
Read more →Matador Travel Merges With Brave New Traveler
Check out my post on Gadling as to why I'm thrilled about this merger! Ian Mackenzie and Tim Patterson from BNT have joined Matdor's editorial team and I'm really looking forward to seeing more great…
Read more →2007 Lowell Thomas Award Winners
The results are in for the Society of American Travel Writer's 2007 Lowell Thomas Awards . This year the record high 1,490 entries submitted for categories such as Travel Jourmalist of the Year and…
Read more →BBC buys Lonely Planet
Big news for whoever missed it. Yesterday, the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) purchased the world's largest guidebook publisher Lonely Planet . The deal is reportedly worth $200 million and…
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Sorry it's been awhile. I've been drowning in work and having things to do for my brother's wedding, which was last Saturday, so I haven't had a chance to post. Very quick...I just want to let everyone…
Read more →Lonely Planet's Pick & Mix
Guidebooks in PDF format have been around for awhile and I've never found them much of use. I have a couple of guides from various publishers stuck in a folder somewhere on my computer that I never go…
Read more →Write for Lonely Planet...
...on FACEBOOK . Yes, oh my goodness - everyones on it! It seems to be invading the Internet by becoming this super informative portal where you can interact with anyone and everyone you've wanted to. I…
Read more →Guardian's Weekly Top 10 Travel Blogs
So the Guardian has a new travel-blog spy on board - Benji Lanyado. Looks like the Guardian is diverting new focus to the blogosphere, and this dude is doing the honours. He is not a typical reviewer…
Read more →New Perceptive Travel
Perceptive Travel has released its latest issue, July/August . The ezine is published by World's Cheapest Destinations author Tim Leffel and features the work of travel (and other) writers with at least…
Read more →Symphony space Travel Tales
Symphony Space was kind enough to send us a copy of their new Travel Tales compact disc collection so I thought I'd share it with everyone. The collection is made up of short travel clips (the combined…
Read more →Wow Wow Wee Waa; Borat to pen Travel Guide
As the author to a few guidebooks, maybe I should be somewhat offended by this, but for some reason I want to buy it. Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (AKA British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen), has inked a…
Read more →Call From National Press Club For Travel Writers
If you are an editor, photographer, a writer, trying to be a writer, or whatever, as long as you are waddling in the travel-publishing industry, and want to share your experiences with a crowd who will…
Read more →How Traveling Made Her a Writer...
Check out a great interview on Gadling with founder or Seal Press Barbara Sjoholm. The interview has been done by our very own Kelly Amabile , and is in the context of one of Barbara's latest books…
Read more →An All New Gridskipper: Snazzy and Spreadout
Gridskipper re-launched yesterday and the result is a completely new look, expanded features, wider focus, more contributors and detailed maps with hotspots marked out per city. New focus cities include:…
Read more →US Launch Tour: Lonely Planet Books
Tony and Maureen Wheeler , founders of the Lonely Planet have just released two new travel literature books: 1) Bad Lands , by Tony Wheeler: Tony talks about his experience traveling through 9 countries…
Read more →The Travel Channel Acquires World Hum
The word has just gotten out, and it's already been covered considerably. The Travel Channel has acquired World Hum . Taken over!? Gobbled-up by the fierce and firey bigshots at Discovery? Log on to World…
Read more →Global Travel Writers new website
This may not be so much of use to writers, but good news for editors looking to fill assignments. Global Travel Writers , which is an alliance of Austrailian Writers and photographers, have just…
Read more →SF Bay Area: Traveler's Tales Events
It's Easter, and between eating chocolate eggs and watching it pour outside, nothing much has happened. No writing, no travelling, no nothing. So while I'm enjoying Madrid, some good cinema and my sofa,…
Read more →Adventure Travel Lecture Series
The Globe Corner bookstore has announced several upcoming speakers for its Adventure Travel Lecture Series. Events are free and reservations are strongly urged. TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH LONELY PLANET COSTA…
Read more →Adventure E-zine Goes Live
Award-winning travel writer and editor Don George has just begun editing a new monthly online trave-lit-zine called ¨ RECCE : Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler." Sponsored by travel adventure…
Read more →2007 Travvies: And The Winners Are...
Last week I talked about the Travvies - Upgrade Travel's travel blogging awards for 2007. The competition ran over a month, voting closed yesterday and the winners have just been announced! In total 2306…
Read more →Book Release: One Hundred Places Every Woman Should Go
Travelers' Tales has just released 100 Places Every Woman Should Go , which arrived in bookstores on February 25. Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest wrote Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing and…
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