Crafting the Travel Guidebook: How to Write, Publish and Sell Your Travel Book

This is the book every travel writer has waited for! Travel writing may be an art--but putting together a guidebook is a craft! Author Barbara Hudgins offers a minimum of hype and a maximum of help for anyone who has ever dreamed of putting his travel lore into prose. Crafting the Travel Guidebook shows the reader how to find his category and his audience, how to create a format, construct a framework and flow his chapters. It also offers a heaping helping of writing tips and examples. Aimed at both the author looking for a publisher and those who wish to self-publish, the book covers such topics as basic research, plagiarism, creating sidebars, where to find photographs, positioning the title and promoting it once it is published. Best of all, there is a 15-page list of publishers who welcome travel writers. Written by best-selling guidebook author Barbara Hudgins, the book offers a roadmap for both the novice wirter and the veteran journalist to forge the way to the travel bookshelf!Hudgins, Barbara is the author of 'Crafting the Travel Guidebook: How to Write, Publish and Sell Your Travel Book', published 2007 under ISBN 9780960776207 and ISBN 0960776206.