SATW 2002 Awards announced
"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…
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1321 postsTravel 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read more →Book Expo America May 28- June 1, 2003
Yesterday a reader wrote in asking about Book Expo America. I've been to at least three in Chicago, one in Los Angeles, and last year's in New York. They are great, and if you are involved in publishing…
Read more →Letting Go
I'm in the process of cleaning up. The big house. Yesterday I let go of the radio stuff which had dwindled from an hour long weekly show, to interviews or spots on several shows. It's just out of my focus…
Read more →Sand in My Bra gets a great start!
This just in...a sales and marketing meeting with our distributor went very well today. There was strong interest from our sales reps for Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com. Susan Brady of…
Read more →Both sides of the media fence
Yesterday was a bit of a strange day for me in the publishing sense. I was at a meeting at BootsnAll for some event coordinating that I'm doing for them, when the guys suggested we connect their efforts…
Read more →Simultaneous Submissions
Q.The question is prompted by my starting to send off one article to a major newspaper, then realizing I hadn't had it ruled out yet by another, already submitted. It can be up to 6-8 mo. to hear back…
Read more →Submission Tracker
One of the Written Road readers, Rabbit, pointed me towards the Submission Tracker at WritersMarket.com. All I can say is, now I have a new toy! For only $2.99 a month you can have access to their entire…
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