Two Travel Mags Seek Writers
1) Planet Magazine is expanding operations to the East Coast, and is preparing to build a NYC team of editors and writers. They are looking for a New York-based senior editor and associate editor, as well…
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There are a lot of creative efforts to encourage people to help out those who've lost from the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Do what you can, and if you're in the Bay Area this week, go see some of your…
Read more →Book Passage Has a Blog
But of course....everybody does now, don't they? Yes, Book Passage has a brand new baby blog. It was born September 1, 2005. Lets see how it grows and who is the primary care giver. I'm curious to read if…
Read more →Are You Writing this Weekend?
Labor Day weekend. Some of you have emailed me with notice of time allotted for writing this weekend. That makes me happy, and since we're at the half way point, or just after, I thought I'd check in with…
Read more →Travel Books Making the Nielsen Grade
"A Long Way to a Bestseller" came out in The Book Standard, yesterday, listing the top selling travel books according to BookScan. If you love books, this site and their newsletter is for you. Everytime I…
Read more →Book Passage TW&PC: More Pictures
Here are some more pictures from Day 2 of the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference. I didn't take notes or pics at the evening event. Patricia Schultz was speaking about her experience…
Read more →Google Talk and Other Ways To Communicate
So, this weekend at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference Michael Shapiro was cracking up at a long string of roads to get a hold of me. I had given him my names for Email, YM, MSN,…
Read more →Kelly is Writing for Gadling!
Hey everybody, lets all give Kelly Amabile a big congrats for getting a paid blogging gig with Gadling . As you know, Kelly has been volunteering her time here on Written Road to keep the Market Leads and…
Read more →Book Passage: Day 1
Lets give a friendly hello to all the new writers coming to Written Road from the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference . If you want to get straight to submissions guidelines, head on…
Read more →Travel Reads in the Web World
Here are some travel reads that have crossed my desk recently...hopefully you can check them out....just in case I don't find the time. Frank Bures's book review of Paul Theroux's Blinding Light, "Sex,…
Read more →Summer Camp for Travel Writers
It's Book Passage time! Every third week in August, travel writers convene Thursday - Sunday at the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference . Writers/photographers serious about breaking…
Read more →"Hipster" Guides
USA Today recently did a summary of some new "hipster guidebooks" . Here is additional information that I found about one of the publishers: PartyEarth LLC is a Chicago-based company releasing their first…
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