Building with Books
Are you a book lover? No, I mean do you love books enough to decorate your room with furniture made from books? I found Building with Books on Yahoo Picks this morning. It is the handiwork of some MIT…
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1321 postsSaturday Small World Book Notes
Yesterday I got a $20 Criagslist rideshare from SF to LA from a very cool woman who is doing crazy amazing work as an assistant to biologist field researchers in Alaska. She picked me out of her many…
Read more →The Uglier Side of the Travel Writing Game
William Georgiades , I think I love you. And I don't use that word liberally. But, ok, today I am. Maybe this compliment is better, I want to write like you. I say this soley based on your Media Bistro…
Read more →Contact leads for your UK Stories
UKInbound , formerly called The British Incoming Tour Operators Association (BITOA), represents more than 250 British tourism suppliers with 5,000 outlets across the U.K. They've got statistics reports…
Read more →A Sense of Place Book Tour Continues in Seattle with Rick Steves!
This is a guest post by Michael Shapiro. Grey skies and an election hangover didn't dampen the mood at Seattle's Elliott Bay Books on Thursday night as Euro-travel expert Rick Steves joined me (Michael…
Read more →Contributors Push Our Panties!
Enormous thanks to Canadian contributors Michele Petersen and Colleen Friesen for their efforts in spreading the good Panties word at their Travel Media Showcase in Tucson. Check out their display. One…
Read more →Blogging for Books every month
This is a pretty cool concept. Getting bloggers to write a piece based on a theme, posting it all the same week, and then the panelist choosing winners to get a free book. I was all set to do this…
Read more →Whose Panties on a Bestseller List
Being back at the TT office gets me into the news first hand. Whose Panties Are These? was just ranked as #14 on the Southern California Booksellers Association's Bestseller list for the week ending…
Read more →Meet New People, Get a Story Lead
Yesterday night on the train I moved seats to let a family be closer to the tv I wasn't watching. So, there I was hauling my crap up and down the aisle trying to decide what seat would be the best of the…
Read more →My Sunday
Even though I don't have a full time job, or a family, I'm having slight difficulty keeping up. Do not confuse this with me being down, or depressed, or overly spent. Far from it. But the more people I…
Read more →What is a lame event?
I'm not usually negative about events. Even when nobody shows up. Come on, I've done plenty of events where there were only three people in the audience. They don't surprise me. But that's usually because…
Read more →Publishers Lunch Got Me This Time
Publishers Lunch has been slowly guilt tripping me into getting their subscription service. I can't read one cheap version without feeling like an absolute moron for not having the full strength version.…
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