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Make Steady Money as a Travel Writer
Secrets of Selling Travel Stories – Without Traveling

By Jack Adler

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I spoke with Jack Adler the author of this new book and asked him to tell us a bit about it. I’ve known Jack as an online travel writer for almost 15 years. As a moderator of the travel section of the Prodigy online service he was an early adopter of new technology.

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From The Publisher: Do you dream of being a travel writer but need or want to stay close to home? Make Steady Money as a Travel Writer is loaded with specific methods and ideas to generate a dependable and consistent income as a travel writer, and the best part—without spending money on travels abroad or far afield in the U.S. Read this book and discover ways to carve out a niche for yourself as a travel writer concentrating on service articles.

- Earn a secure flow of income.
- Write and sell travel articles without traveling!
- Develop a lucrative side line or even launch a career!
- Or if you are already a travel writer, spice up your repertoire of ideas, refresh your enthusiasm, and have more fun writing!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jack Adler is a widely published travel writer/columnist with several books to his credit including The Consumer’s Guide To Travel, Southern India, Exploring Historic California, Travel Safety (coauthored), and There’s A Bullet Hole In Your Window. He teaches travel writing courses for UCLA Extension and the Writer’s Digest School.

My Favorite Place On Earth
Celebrated People Share Their Travel Discoveries

By Jerry Camarillo Dunn

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I had a chance to interview Jerry Dunn last weekend. He spoke about the writing of his new book, and reads the chapter from George Lucas.

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From The Publisher:  See the world through the eyes of some of the most celebrated and admired people of our time in this engaging new travel book. Award-winning author and National Geographic Traveler writer Jerry Camarillo Dunn takes you on a remarkable journey with such amazing and diverse figures as Sandra Day O’Connor and the Dalai Lama, actors Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman, astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride, explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, real estate mogul Donald Trump, entertainer Jerry Seinfeld, food guru Alice Waters, and author Tony Hillerman. His simple question to these people: What is your favorite travel discovery? Visit the books official website. The answers are both surprising and engaging—ranging from Bali Indonesia to a well-used bench at San Francisco’s Crissy Field, from the Hopi Mesas in Arizona to the Old City of Jerusalem. In page after page, celebrated contributors describe the special appeal of each place—be it the amazing beauty, or the character of the people, or simply the hushed joy of solitude.

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes!
By Guy Fieri (Author), Ann Volkwein (Author)

From The Publisher: Food Network star Guy Fieri takes you on a tour of America’s most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show, complete with recipes, photos, and memorabilia.

Packed with Guy’s iconic personality, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives follows his hot-rod trips around the country, mapping out the best places most of us have never heard of. From digging in at legendary burger joint the Squeeze Inn in Sacramento, California, baking Peanut Pie from Virginia Diner in Wakefield, Virginia, or kicking back with Pete’s “Rubbed and Almost Fried” Turkey Sandwich from Panini Pete’s in Fairhope, Alabama, Guy showcases the amazing personalities, fascinating stories, and outrageously good food offered by these American treasures.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Italy, India and Indonesia – by Elizabeth Gilbert

From the Publisher: This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls “Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga-practicing, footloose younger sister”) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.

How to Shoot Great Travel Photos – by Susan McCartney

Susan dropped me an email and gave me one of her best tips: “My rule is to shoot outdoors only when my shadow is longer than I am. By avoiding midday sunlight , I also avoid getting the ugly effects of “toplight” (light from directly overhead) on people.”

From The Publisher: A world traveler and master photographer reveals how to capture original, top-notch travel photos from around the globe with film or digital media. Illustrated by more than 150 breathtaking images from the author’s own work, the book presents a comprehensive roadmap to the challenges and rewards of the travel genre. Readers learn to handle issues such as exposure and metering, films, filters, and lighting under every exotic scenario, climate, and location imaginable; how to organize their trips effectively; and how to practice their skills close to home.

Journeys of a Lifetime - By National Geographic

A beautiful coffee table book that has more than just pictures that one would expect from National Geographic.  Each journey’s photos is complimented by maps and information.

From The Publisher: No one knows the world like National Geographic—and in this lavish volume, we reveal our picks for the world’s most fabulous journeys, along with helpful information for readers who want to try them out. Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic’s travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of the world’s most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents an incredible diversity of possibilities, from ocean cruises around Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Every continent and every possible form of transport is covered.

The Milepost – by Kris Valencia

Since 1949 The Milepost guides have been considered the Bible for those traveling the Alcan Highway linking the lower 48 states with Alaska. The Milepost is an annual publication that was founded in 1949 by William Wallace when the Alcan highway was just a gravel-packed road. My parents used this guide several times as they drove from Durango Colorado to Alaska.

The guide also contains a vast amount of details for driving the highways and by-ways of our 49th state. It consists of a mile-by-mile resource of the driver that wants to know. It is updated every year and now includes GPS coordinates for many locations. This years issue has 800 pages and over 500 photographs. You will never miss an important or interesting point if you have The Milepost in hand while driving in or to Alaska.
 

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SAS Urban Survival Handbook- by John “Lofty” Wiseman

Let’s hope you never need this book, but if you do, it could be a lifesaver! It is about how to protect yourself against various urban threats. Terrorism, fires, home robberies and other health and safety issues we may deal with in daily life. For twenty-six years John “Lofty” Wiseman was with Britain’s SAS as their Chief Survival Instructor. Today he is well known for his SAS training techniques for civilians.

From The Publisher: John “Lofty” Wiseman is the author of the bestselling SAS Survival Handbook, the definitive guide to survival in the wild from Britain’s Special Air Service. Now he has compiled a complete guide to survival in the urban jungle. Every year in America there are thousands of fatal accidents in the home—more than on the roads, and many more than in the great outdoors. Fire, electricity, water, gas, sharp knives, poisons, chemicals—these valuable tools can quickly become dangerous weapons when not treated with proper respect and understanding. Add to these the risks of travel, terrorism, muggings, rape, tsunamis, and earthquakes. We are constantly reminded that the world is a dangerous place. Wiseman shows readers how to think realistically and practically about these perils in order to avoid them, whether they are at home, on the street, in school, or in transit. From self-defense techniques to home security systems to coping with natural disasters, this book will teach readers to recognize risks, make quick decisions, and live confidently in the modern urban world.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar – by: Paul Theroux

From The Publisher: Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his grand tour by train through Asia. In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change.

LOST ON PLANET CHINA – By J. Maarten Troost

From The Publisher: “Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world’s most populous and intriguing nation. In Lost on Planet China, Troost escorts readers on a rollicking journey through the new beating heart of the modern world, from the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the Gobi Desert and the hinterlands of Tibet.”

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