Someone Scratched My LP
I don't know if anyone has been following the news that has been creaping up all over the media the past few days, but guidebook publisher Lonely Planet has been hit by a renegade author, Thomas Kohnstamm…
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1321 postsLive Blogging Session: What Do Readers Want From A Travel Blog?
An eternal question for those getting into travel-blogging. Folks over at Europe A La Carte blog will have a live-blogging session on this topic. A group of travel-bloggers (list not yet disclosed) will…
Read more →Questions with the NYT Travel Editor
Stuart Emmrich, travel editor of the New York Times , is answering questions from readers this week in the Talk to the Newsroom page. If you send them right now you still might be able to get one in. He's…
Read more →Interview: Cullen Thomas
I ran into Cullen Thomas around NYC during a few writer events and he was kind enough to agree to an interview for Written Road. He is the author of Brother One Cell , a book about his time in a South…
Read more →Travel-Blogging Lead: Writing For Planet Eye
As of today I've started blogging for new travel community and website, Planet Eye . I have been appointed their Madrid local expert and have to review places, gives lists of things to do and places to…
Read more →Travel Channel Acquires Vagabondish
Breaking news from the travel-publishing industry: Discovery's Travel Channel has bought over Vagabondish . First it was World Hum, now this -- both are great examples of small scale, personal projects…
Read more →Trying To Be A Travel-Writer: My Story So Far...
One of our recent posts here stirred up many comments and thoughts. Although I assure you we've never meant to be impersonal, some of the commenters have expressed that this site lacks a personal touch,…
Read more →Interview With Robert Reid: The Rise Of Online Travel Guides
I subscribe to a million (not exaggerating) RSS feeds, from EVERYWHERE. I enjoy most I subscribe to, and I subscribe to new ones almost every day (yes, I'm obsessed) which is precisely why I often miss…
Read more →Moon Looking For Guidebook Authors
Avalon Publishing is looking for authors for a number of Moon guidebooks: - Moon South Africa - Moon Mumbai & Goa - Moon Delhi, Agra, & Rajasthan - Moon Mexico's Copper Canyon - Moon Singapore & Malaysia…
Read more →New Writing Website: The Midlist Writer
Good friend, fellow traveler and writer Sean McLachlan (who has shared his advice for us here before), has entered the blogging world to share his writing experiences. Sean has been to 20 countries on…
Read more →Frommer's Travel Writing 101
For those of you who missed this, at end of last year, Frommer's came out with a Travel Writing 101 series of articles, written by Robert Haru Fisher: a contributing editor and columnist for Frommers.com,…
Read more →Writing Online: What You Write Vs. How You Write
I don't know about you guys, but with the explosive growth of the online publishing industry and the constant debate over the authority definitions when it comes to journalists, bloggers or writers, I am…
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