Here are 10 book cover design trends to help get your book noticed and sold.

Memoirst Kandy Ostrosky shares the story behind her self-publishing journey and passions for travel and volunteering.

KDP Jumpstart is a free Self-Publishing resource from Amazon KDP.

I’m back from hiatus eager to create more compelling blog posts and podcasts

5 Tips for Writing a Travel Journal that make it easer to turn into a Book

Algarve expat Alyson Sheldrake shares her publishing journey for her Portugal themed travel memoirs.

Dave Chesson over at Kindlepreneur just published this video. It’s under 4 minutes and has some key information in it….

This case study looks at how Insight Guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Here are 8 simple tips to follow to make light work of your editing work. Editing your own book is a challenge but, by giving your work a close reading, you can become a better writer.

Indie Author Dale L. Roberts conducted a cover design experiment on Fiverr which ended in success. Is it an option for you?

This case study looks at how Frommer’s designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

These Book Marketing tips are for indie authors looking to get the biggest impact with the smallest budget.

Memoirst Ruth Hampson shares the story behind her self-publishing experience for her part memoir, part travelogue.

Nomadic Times contributor, Indiana Lee, shares her tips for balancing an adventure lifestyle and being a digital nomad

A step by step process for scheduling your Bargain Booksy Promotion. With Tips for setting your pricing strategy.

Book One in my How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide series has been reduced from $5.99 to .99c…

Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of working with an editor. She shares the lessons she learned during the line editing process

A low cost alternative to BookBub that helps authors promote their nonfiction books to readers in their niche

This case study looks at how Marco Polo guides designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Book formatting just got easier—Amazon now recommends providing an EPUB file for publishing instead of a file in their proprietary MOBI format.

Freebooksy and Bargain Booksy are two promotional sites that give you the opportunity of featuring your book when you’re offering it for free or if the purchase price is less than $5.

I’m focused on updating and optimizing my Amazon Categories and Keywords, here’s how I evaluated Budget Travel using two online tools.

Travel Writing Prompts: J is for Journaling and Journalism. Use these Travel Writing Prompts to make it easier to connect with your readers. No matter what you’re writing.

This case study looks at how DK guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover, including the use of contrasting colors.

Florida Travel Guide Authors shares the steps he took to turn his travel blog into a series of self-published travel guides to reach a broader audience.

IngramSpark are offering free title uploads which will save you money. Usually they charge a per title fee for any ebook and paperback you upload.

In this 10-minute show, travel writer Jay Artale continues the discussion about fast drafting and this episode focuses on what to Fast Draft.

We interviewed 10 travel writers to get their take on marketing and promoting their travel book. Find out which techniques have worked to sell more books and reach more readers.

Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of finding an editor. She shares the lessons she learned during the process of writing and editing her first book.

Each episode in the A to Z podcast series provides you with inspiration to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. Today we’re covering the letter C. 

KDP have just announced that authors can now use Amazon Advertising’s Sponsored Products ads to reach readers in Canada and Australia.

Travel Fiction Writer Jane Dunning shares the inspiration and her first-hand experience of writing a three book series. Find out what self-publishing and travel writing lessons she’s learnt along the way.

Jon Doolan is the editor and publisher of an Adventure Anthology series, and in this guest post he shares 5 reasons why it’s a good idea for writers to contribute to an anthology.

Take this quiz to assess whether you have what it takes to become a travel writer.

Did you know you can list your book in up to 10 Amazon Categories? Forget just choosing 3 when you set up your book. Do your research and increase your chances of being discovered by asking Amazon to add your book to additional relevant categories

Have you written your financial action plan to support your life on the road as a Digital Nomad? Nomadic Times contributor Rebecca shows you how to approach putting your plan together.

I put together this metadata case study to use the Amazon KDP strategies I’ve been learning about to see whether I tweaking my categories and keywords can improve my category ranking.

Travel Writer Sally Jane Smith shares her journey of whether or not she needs a professional line edit. She shares the lessons she learned during the process of writing and editing her first book.

In this 10-minute podcast we cover how my fast drafting technique will help you streamline your note taking tasks while you’re traveling, so that you can spend more time exploring and less time writing.

We interviewed 10 travel writers to get their take on marketing and promoting their travel book. Find out which techniques have worked to sell more books and reach more readers.

How to build a reputation for your content by attracting blog comments on your travel articles, and where to find groups to help you get them.

There’s no way I could write a book to provide advice on marketing your travel related book, unless I’d tried them as part of my own book marketing activities. Includes a list of Amazon’s top 100 books in this category.

In order to be a successful note-taker you need to start using a fast drafting technique. This will establish a habit to capture the daily events before you forget them.

I was excited to discover that Vellum book formatting software has a couple of great new features: Internal Linking and Sub Headings included in your Table of Contents.

Travel guides are based on facts and information, but in order to hook your reader you need to add personal stories and anecdotes for them to be able to relate to you. This is your competitive advantage, so it’s important to use this approach.

Here’s a free tool to help you create mock up cover images on a phone, ereader, and a paperback. Multiple layouts to choose from.

This month’s writing prompt from #IWSG is about whether you choose your writing prompt in advance. Read about my about-turn in my latest travel guide.

In this 20-minute show we chat with blogger and freelance writer, Carol Duval, who house sat around the globe with her husband and wrote a memoir about their adventures.

We interviewed 10 travel writers to get their take on marketing and promoting their travel book. Find out which techniques have worked to sell more books and reach more readers

In this podcast episode we continues our A to Z travel writing tips series by focusing on writing prompts and activities beginning with B.