It's Webby Time Again
I can't believe it's already time again...but it is. Submissions for the 7th Annual Webby Awards end December 20th. For travel, I highly recommend my favorite, BootsnAll.com These guys always seem to be…
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1321 postsWell Traveled: dispatches from the frontlines of travel
Damn, those World Hum guys are good. I don't know how they have the time to find the great scoops they do. Now normally I don't copy them, and normally they don't link to travelogues...but in this…
Read more →James O'Reilly recommends M.F.K. Fisher
James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales sent an email today to the TT staff, raving about M.F.K. Fisher. I thought I'd pass it on since there are several of you out there who email me asking how to…
Read more →A House Somewhere: Tales of Living Abroad
I missed Don George's book release party tonight at Book Passage! He was reading with Isabel Allende from his latest anthology A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad. This collection is "filled with…
Read more →Free Travel = More Travel Writing Potential
Frommers.com announced in their newsletter last night that RyanAir.com is giving away 500,000 seats until Nov.18, 2002. It's for flights in Europe--London, Paris, Rome, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels,…
Read more →Everyone Wants To Work At National Geographic, Don't They?
Come on, most likely if you're a travel writer now, at some point in your life you dreamed of working with National Geographic. Well, here's your chance. I'm a firm believer that dreams come true...and…
Read more →Google Travel Heavyweights & Featherweights
Have you seen Google Fight yet? It does Google searches for keywords and lets you know who has how many. For example, when Mac Donalds fights Burger King... here are the results. So...I've put some travel…
Read more →Almost done
The editing session for Sand In My Bra & Other Misadventures was fairly productive even if we didn't get as far as we'd hoped. A couple of things... 1) We've got 36 stories and I'd say they're 96% nailed…
Read more →Travel stories I don't want to read
I would love to do an anthology of the worst submissions ever. The mass market wouldn't understand the humor, but I think editors would. It'd be the perfect bathroom book for any travel editor/writer.…
Read more →2 more travel magazines
Here are two travel magazines that I came across this week. They're new to me. Audience? Travel + Life: This magazine looks good visually, but I have yet to sit down and read it. It is put out by a…
Read more →Sand in My Bra
I rode the dog down to SF for a whirlwind edit session with Larry on the humor book. It's coming along. Getting closer. We added five stories today and cut two. I think we're over 35 stories but still…
Read more →It's Time To Write
Last Friday someone on the WorkforWriters listserve posted a whole bunch of market leads and links to submission guidelines. I got excited thinking about story angles that I could work on for many of…
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