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…
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24 postsThanks and Farewell
During this weekend of thanks I'd like to express my deepest gratitude to the incredibly supportive community of readers, writers and travelers that I've encountered during my stint as a Written Road…
Read more →Written Road Newsletter August 15, 2006
Hello everyone. I'm on my way up to San Francisco to celebrate What Color Is Your Jockstrap? , my fourth humor title with Travelers' Tales. We're having a special event at Book Passage with the one and…
Read more →Road Recovery
Hey Written Roadies... I'm fresh off a five month jaunt through Europe and am currently recovering at my folks place in New York while I plot my next moves. The journey was incredible...and I've got…
Read more →Introducing Terah Shelton
I've been promising the addition of new volunteer writers on Written Road so we can expand this community, and we finally got it going! Kelly Amabile was our first and is off seeing the world with more…
Read more →New Marketplace on Written Road
Hey everybody, I'm really excited to show you our new Marketplace . See that colorful button on the side? That's for you. I get lots of inquiries from publishers and travel companies that want me to talk…
Read more →Written Road Growth Spurt
Hey Everybody, I just wanted to let you know that Written Road is going through a big growth spurt. We're going to be adding writers, putting up some ads, and sending out a weekly newsletter. I've…
Read more →Where Are You Reading Written Road From?
I've always been thrilled to hear from Written Road fans from all over the world including India, France, South Africa, Australia, Costa Rica, etc. But now I just found this cool map that lets you easily…
Read more →2006 Travel Writing Resolutions, Opportunities
Happy New Year Everyone! So, what are your goals? Are you making any fantasy resolutions of writing more, pitching more, finally dusting off the manuscript you were working on last year and giving it a…
Read more →Jen Leo's Favorite Links
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that since we've made the site look a bit cleaner, I also updated my Favorite Links . Before, we had a very short list on the left column, but now I fleshed it out some…
Read more →Booking Buddy: Written Road's First Sponsor
Hey Written Roadies…you'll notice we've launched a new sponsorship section. What are we doing you might ask? Well, we are trying to take Written Road to the next level of service. We've got a bunch of…
Read more →New Look for Written Road
Hey Hey Hey! The tech-savvy lads at BootsnAll cleaned up Written Road. They brought us into the newer version of Moveable Type so we can breathe a little easier, and have less hinderance from the…
Read more →Frommer's Favorite Travel Blogs
There's nothing like getting kudos at the same time as all your friends! BootsnAll , WorldHum , Vagablogging , Gadling , and I all got props for our blogs....and I love that they put Rolf and me together.…
Read more →Introducing Kelly Amabile
I am pleased to let you know we have a new writer joining Written Road, Kelly Amabile. Kelly has been a long time WR reader and approached me a few weeks ago after I exposed my overful plate with starting…
Read more →Happy Holidays Written Roadies
For a girl who traveled to more than a dozen countries and eight states in the past twelve months, writing Written Road has been one of my favorite highlights of the year. (Not to mention a much needed…
Read more →Blogalicious...who me?
Damn I wish someone could come over here and take a picture of me. I think I'm blushing. Gadling just gave me some pretty big props and I just might be glowing for the next 48 hours. "Blogalicious Feature…
Read more →WrittenRoad.com works!
Two recent reports have come in from travel writers who got bylines from the leads on this site. Woohoo! Congratulations to Leif Pettersen whose efforts with iTravelSyndicate have made him some moooolah!…
Read more →Who Do I Thank?
I think I need to thank the almighty Google gods at BootsnAll.com. Sean, Chris, Nick... WrittenRoad.com is now the number one item by page rank in Google's "Arts|Writers Resources|Non-Fiction|Travel…
Read more →Happy Holidays!
Big thanks to everybody who reads WrittenRoad.com, has supported the Sand In My Bra cause this year, and sends their well wishes whether I've met you in person or not. Here is the email I sent to my…
Read more →What Would You Like to See More of?
As soon as I got to the salon last night, Moon Handbooks writer Carl Parkes came up to tell me that he's been reading Written Road every day for a month. Maybe two. Carl has written six Moon books to Asia…
Read more →Written Road is 1 yr old
Happy Anniversary Written Road. I've been doing this blog for a whole year now. I love it, us, this — I do. Even though paper is the 1 yr anniversary gift, if I were flush I'd buy us a laptop to…
Read more →Glory Days
My childhood friend Heather and I used to talk about the Glory Days being when we were going out with our older rock-band boyfriends during high school. Then in college my friend Scott and I would sing…
Read more →Props for Written Road
What goes around comes around. Last week I helped an author on my WorkforWriters listserve. It turned out she liked this blog and recommended it to her newsletter list as one of her "picks of the week."…
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Hey Everybody, thanks for your patience with the blog this week. Now you can see where the extra time has been put. What do you think? I'm so excited about the new look! We've been talking about moving…
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