Oct
10
Creative Transport
October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Thanks to Chris Lunn for forwarding these shots of one couple’s exceptionally creative response to the high cost of fuel:
Oct
10
FlyersRights.org
October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Thanks to Gayle Keck for this link to FlyersRights.org and the suggestion about adding their hotline (877-359-3776 or 877-flyers6) to your cell phone speed dial if you’re flying anywhere soon. Call if an airline is treating you poorly, and FlyersRights can sometimes help resolve things. If you’re stuck on the tarmac, they can get pizza and water delivered—or help get you off and onto another flight.
Oct
10
Join me at Litquake
October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Laurie McAndish King will read at Litquake on Saturday, October 17th. Does the date sound familiar? It happens to be the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake—which may be more than a coincidence, because this year’s LitCrawl is going to rock!
Please join Laurie, along with Don George, Larry Habegger, Jeff Greenwald, and other travel writers at LitCrawl. Laurie will read “Big Cats, No Guns” (from The Best Womens’ Travel Writing 2009) about the time she tracked lions on foot, without a gun, in Botswana. (How’d she get out alive?)
Oct
10
Congratulations to Ken Matusow
October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to Ken Matusow, whose story, Grandpere, was published in a university-level creative writing textbook. The story, about a trip Ken took up the Niger River in Mali to Timbuktu, is in a section called “Journeys and Reflections,” along with selections from Walt Whitman, Francine Prose, and Andrew Pham. Ken says, “It’s pretty trippy to have my story compared to the likes of Steven King, Virginia Wolf, Amy Tan, Joseph Campbell, Anne Lamont, Pablo Neruda, Sigmund Freud, David Sedaris, Martin Luther King and host of others.” The story was originally published in Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing 2007. The Dreams and Inward Journeys publisher apparently read the story there and contacted Travelers’ Tales to request permission to reprint it.
Oct
10
National Geographic’s International Photography Contest
October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
| October 31, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 am |
Every year, National Geographic’s International Photography Contest draws thousands of spectacular photos from users around the world. This year could be your year—send in your photos for a chance to win a digital camera kit and have your image published in the magazine. Winners will be entered into the Worldwide International Photography Contest.
You can submit up to six photos in three categories—People, Places, and Nature—between now and October 31, 2009. Winners will be announced in early December. There is an entry fee of U.S. $12 for each photo.
Contest Website: for complete rules; link for submitting.
Sep
1
Camille Cusumano in town to Tango
September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
| September 29, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| October 1, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Camille Cusumano, author of Tango, an Argentine Love Story (the travel memoir of a woman who loved, lost, got mad—and decided to dance) will be back from Buenos Aires for two weeks by popular demand, appearing at the San Francisco Museum of Performance & Design (September 29) and the Larkspur Library (October 1), as part of the library’s Armchair Travel series.
Aug
19
Self-publishing seminar
August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
| October 4, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Lisa Alpine and Carla King are offering a seminar on self-publishing from 10:00 – 5:00 on Sunday, October 4th, 2009, at Fort Mason Center.
Here’s the scoop:
“You’ll learn everything you need to know to do it yourself:
- What the various POD printers, online services, and distribution companies do (and don’t do) for you
- How to outsource: book design, mailing list management, blogs, and other essential tasks
- What to watch out for when using POD “subsidy” publishers
- Options for distribution and fulfillment
- How to use your eBook to sell your print book
Aug
12
Travel Classics West 2009
August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
| October 15, 2009 12:00 am | to | October 17, 2009 11:00 pm |
Travel Classics West 2009 is now accepting registration for qualified writers:
Registration for the Arizona conference in Scottsdale is officially open. The conference fee is $725. A $300 deposit is required at the time of registration. Accommodations rate at the Fairmont Scottsdale is $135 per night (3 consecutive nights: Oct, 15, 16 and 17), plus gratuities and room tax. All meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) are included in the conference and hotel fees.
There’s no better way to stay in the loop of major magazine markets, as you enhance your career with great writing assignments. Travel Classics is unlike any other conference on Earth.