Left Coast Writers™
Now that I'm back in the Bay Area it's high time I went to my first Left Coast Writers™ event. My friend Linda Watanabe McFerrin was in from the get go, and looking at their about page I also recognize…
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1321 postsBlogging Into a Travel Writing Class
George Estrada just started a blog for his travel writing class at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. JMC 490 Travel Writing It is mainly for the class to post their comments on travel,…
Read more →Are you as creative as you think you are?
IDFuel.com finished with their Hassle Free Travel contest , and is accepting submissions on their Summer Sun contest until July 30, 2004 (with registration by July 28). So, what is it? A contest to…
Read more →Around the world in more than 75 anthologies
It sure was fun to wake up this morning, reach for the Sunday Travel section, and find a big article on Travelers' Tales. John Flinn, Travel Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle , wrote about our ten…
Read more →Fodor's and The Terminal
When I read the "Right This Way" post about Fodor's getting a spot in the movie The Terminal , the PR girl in me wanted to know how they got such a good publicity score. In the movie, Tom Hanks's "only…
Read more →TravelComment.com: Can Travel Writers Stay Humble...Please?
I like Joel Widzer, author of The Penny Pincher's Passport to Luxury Travel. And I was thrilled to read on TravelersTales.com that he had found another outlet to share his travel tips. But when I went to…
Read more →Getting Work in Berlin
A friend asked me if I had any suggestions for a freelancer looking for writing work in Berlin. It's an odd request, but my friend was sincere so here's the research I dug up: Easy Jet Inflight Magazine…
Read more →These Things Happen
On Friday night I got an email from Larry that said two of our book excerpts were being cut from the TOC. One was from Sarah Macdonald's Holy Cow! and the other from It's Not About the Tapas by Polly…
Read more →Molvania, A.A.Gill, ELAND, and my friends
Sorry for being absent this week. Plenty going on, and I'm doing my best to balance getting my work done with awakening a latent social life. It continues to be a challenge to keep myself secluded, but I…
Read more →Done!
I'm finally done with my story. Just turned it in. I think it took 6-7 rewrites, but the last 2-3 were mostly additions and minor fixes. It was the 5th version that was the big improvement. Oh I don't…
Read more →Rolex Awards
Did you guys see these in the National Geographic Adventure newsletter? The Rolex Awards Projects $100,000 each for five winners. Does your project "expand knowledge of our world, improve the quality of…
Read more →Chop.Chop.Chop.
I am now into the fifth revision of my story for the Panties book. The original version was way too long, somewhat offensive, and did that thing I hate the most when reading other writers' stories - I did…
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