Get your stories out there!
In search of hilarious travel stories...and finding myself in the shallow end of the laugh pool...I ran across this page that lists a bunch of links as to where you can publish your travel stories and…
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1321 postsSarah Vowell
Has anybody read Take the Cannoli:Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell? I'm trying to pick a selection from there for the women's humor book, but I just don't know which one is the funniest. I love…
Read more →A new kind of writing
Boy did I have a good day today. I've been sweating bullets about being behind on launching the radio show, but it turns out I'm not behind at all. I went into the studios today and met the Production…
Read more →Title for the women's humor book
Hey Everybody, I'm up in the air about a title use for the women's humor book. I'd love your feedback. You can give your anonymous opinion on the BootsnAll message boards where I posted a poll, or you can…
Read more →Kickin it into high gear!
Yeah! I jammed on the humor book this weekend. Gathered some good leads for interviews and content for the radio show at the same time! Feels great to be working at high speed again. Go figure, happy when…
Read more →Last minute Leo
So I'm reading hard and fast cramming for the humor book. Trying desperately to find some big names for my first round of turning publisher info into Travelers' Tales for the humor book. Due date…
Read more →Connecting
Tuesday night I got a visit from Mike Yessis, co-founder/editor of WorldHum.com. He and his girlfriend Sarah are currently on a road trip from Los Angeles to Seattle. I met Mike nearly a year ago when I…
Read more →Motionsickness--a new and different travel magazine
The other day a letter arrived from Steve Wilson, a writer we've published in a couple Travelers' Tales books and a fine fellow who dropped in once on his way through San Francisco to pitch me on a book…
Read more →New-Larry Habegger posts on Written Road
Hi Everybody, I just wanted to let you know that I've invited Larry Habegger to be a guest poster on the blog. He is the Exectutive Editor at Travelers' Tales, and the co-author of World Travel Watch, a…
Read more →KhaoSanRoad.com
KhaoSanRoad.com Wow this is a cool web site! I found it through World Hum's Weblog, and I definitely need to spend more time going through it. They've got practical info for staying on the road, book…
Read more →Paying travel markets for your stories
If this doesn't get you excited, stop writing. While searching around for resource links for the last post on writing a novel, I ran into a great database that searches paying and non paying markets--AND…
Read more →the first novel
My friend Lisa, who is on a six month RTW honeymoon, just let me and a few friends know that she has started writing a novel. She's currently in Dublin, inspired by the literary history there, and…
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