Tomorrow night in Menlo Park, Helene Goupil and Josh Krist will talk about their book, San Francisco: The Unknown City , as part of Kepler's Journey the World series. I have a copy of thic cool city guide…
Read more →The New York Times Sunday Travel section had a few short articles regarding books and travel: 1) These Guidebooks Don't Scream Tourist The article points to the new Moleskine City Notebooks and Time Out…
Read more →I recently read The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain , in which Boston neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the science behind the drive to communicate and…
Read more →Having a personal editor is the best thing I've done for my writing. Yes, classes, writers groups, and especially my internship and staff time at Travelers' Tales is what gave me a solid foundation for my…
Read more →The cool thing about writing is that it doesn't matter how you look. Anyone having a bad hair day, mismatched socks, or the most unflattering outfit can get into print. But the bad news is that when…
Read more →Man, I've been loving these posts lately. Thanks so much to Kelly and Terah for covering on my hiatus. I've been working on More Sand in My Bra with Julia Weiler in Eugene, OR, Portland and Seattle doing…
Read more →Here's a roundup of some leads found over the weekend: 1) Hoboken-based Wiley , publisher of Frommers titles, seeks two travel editors: Assistant Travel Editor and Travel Editor 2) Four Weeks Magazine , a…
Read more →This is the final installment of my Travels in Europe series . I spent five months roaming around the continent, taking prolific notes and mental snapshots of my experiences, which included pruning fig…
Read more →Marie Javin's Stalking the Wild Diki-Dik was the first book I've read in awhile that I just couldn't seem to put down. My curiosity with a continent I know little about made me pick it up, but I never…
Read more →This is the fifth in a series of posts about how travel, reading, writing and communicating intersected during my five month European backpacking trip. I had just said goodbye to my parents at Newark…
Read more →Here's a selection of travel-related job leads I've seen in the past few days: Via Craigslist: Channel Lake, Inc. seeks freelance writers for Jackson (WY) and Key West (FL) guidebooks Citysearch seeks…
Read more →This is the fourth in a series of posts about how travel, reading, writing and communicating intersected during my five month European backpacking trip. To lose a passport was the least of one's worries,…
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