Birds of a Feather

In this first-hand experience, Jay talks about how a coup in Turkey and the Syrian refugee crisis was the perfect storm that saw the slow demise of a travel writing niche she’d spent years developing, and how she developed a Plan B.

Author Interview with Marek Bron who shares his writing and self-publishing insights and inspiration to help others achieve their travel goals.

We look at three different format strategy approaches based on your experience and budget available. Should you just publish an ebook, or a paperback as well?

In this 10 minute show travel writer Jay Artale covers how to create an effective nonfiction title to entice your readers to buy your book.

This case study looks at how Moon Travel guides have updated their old style design to create a cover that is more indicative of a Lonely Planet travel guide cover. Includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Travel Writing Prompts: C is for Cliches, Cadence, and Conversational. Use these Travel Writing Prompts to improve your writing and make it easier to connect with your readers. No matter what you’re writing.

This article is part of my Beginner’s Guide to Self-publishing direct with ebook Retailers series and takes a closer look at publishing with Amazon KDP.

Travel Writer Frankie Thompson share her writing and self-publishing journey with us. She writes contemporary fiction inspired by travel, in short story collections.

Here’s my roundup of the best travel writing articles, books, and podcasts that were published in March. Read these for valuable advice and inspiration on your own travel blogging and writing journey.

This podcast focuses on a generic overview of the four elements you need to plan for in order to develop an effective content marketing plan. Use your Point of View and Audience definition to craft targeted content on platforms that support your brand’ authenticity.

Both Amazon and IngramSpark let authors buy copies of their book at a reduced cost, so you can sell them direct, donate them or give them away to friends or for book marketing.

PublishDrive have launched an automated solution for splitting author royalties on collaboration projects.

This week our podcast features fictional travel memoir author John Meyer. He talks about his writing process and what book marketing techniques have worked in this travel niche.

Ever since I became a full-time author I’ve wanted to collaborate on joint projects with other authors. Initially I thought the…

Here’s the different back cover elements you should consider when building your nonfiction Paperback. They’re not all mandatory, but choose the best ones based on your content niche.

In this 10 minute show travel writer Jay Artale covers how to approach your book’s content scope and why it’s an important step in your book writing process.

Need some travel writing inspiration? Here’s a roundup of 221 Travel Writing prompts to get your creative muscles working. Use them to stop procrastination and trigger some personal travel stories for your journal.

If you’re including images in your ebooks you don’t have to settle for single inline images. How about including some full page image grids to wow your reader?

Author interview with bellydancing travel memoir writer Zaina Brown, who shares her writing and self-publishing tips to inspire other travel bloggers to combine their travel and writing passions.

Here’s how to transfer title ownership from Amazon to Ingram Spark, after I opted out of Expanded Distribution through KDP.

In this 10 minute show travel writer Jay Artale is joined by fiction author David Penny. Listen to how Scrivener is versatile for fiction and non-fiction authors alike.

Travel Writing Prompts: B is for Bounce, Beginning, Books, and Blog. Use these Travel Writing Prompts to improve your writing and make it easier to connect with your readers. No matter what you’re writing.

In our latest How Travel Writers Self-Publish Podcast we cover How to Identify your Target Audience to focus your writing.

Are you looking for a free #podcasting tool to help you record, manage, and edit your podcast show? Try #Zencastr. It records audio at source so it doesn’t matter how bad your internect connection is.

Travel Writing Prompts: A is for Audience, Action, Anecdotes, Angles, Adjectives and Adverbs. Use these Travel Writing Prompts to improve your writing and make it easier to connect with your readers. No matter what you’re writing.

Listen to our latest 20 minute podcast to find out how to Research your Travel Book idea using Amazon, and pinpoint the research elements you need to focus on.

Join me in finding out about John Meyer’s fictional travel memoir writing and publishing adventures. His books combine facts of history with present-day drama and humor—revolving around a fictitious love story and always based on his own thrilling journeys.

It’s not just tourist boards and companies promoting what they have to sell. Located right on the show floor and included with your ticket, are dozens of seminars on four separate stages that will help you with your next travel experience.

Not sure whether Amazon Expanded distribution is right for your paperback? Here’s how it works and what you need to know before your check the expanded distribution box in your KDP dashboard.

In our latest How Travel Writers Self-Publish Podcast we cover how to reach more readers with your travel blog content.

Here’s some tips for choosing the words and terms to include in your nonfiction book’s index. So that you can print a paperback that your readers find easy to navigate.

How I use GarageBand and Podbean to record, edit, and publish my How writers self-publish podcast.

Listen to this 20 minute podcast to learn how defining your theme and angle helps to differentiate yourself against other books in your travel niche. Also pick up brainstorming tips for generating book ideas.

Read about the Technology and App discoveries that have streamlined my writing and content creation process this week.

Want to order a retail version copy of your paperback book at a reduced cost to give away, ship direct, or sell at a book reading or author event? If you’re distributing via Amazon, here’s the how and why about ordering Author Copies.

Do you want a professionally numbered nonfiction but, but aren’t sure which pages get numbered, and which don’t? Here’s how to handle blank pages, and front and back matter.

An introduction to the major travel guide categories: Destination, Side Trip, Special Interest, Event Specific, Journey, Culinary, and Advice Travel Guides, and a look at the key considerations when writing each category.

Your writing muscles need exercising every day. But if you don’t feel like writing, how do you force yourself to get creative—even if it’s only for 20 minutes?

Hybrid author Tom Fay has established his travel writing brand around his knowledge of his adopted home of Japan, and shares his writing and self-publishing journey for his Travel Guide, which is an insider’s guide to seeing the best of Japan in one trip. 

Take the guesswork out of whether you should include images in your Amazon KDP ebook. Here’s a way to calculate the financial implications of choosing the 70% vs 35% royalty rate.

I’m using my January writing sprint to bang out the first rough draft of my Cambodia Travel Guide. Follow along to see how successful my first attempt at a sprint will be.

In our How Travel Writers Self-Publish podcast we cover how to research and get inspired to become a local travel guide author.

So you want to write an Advice Travel Guide? Here’s some books in this niche, and tips for writing your travel guide.

Check out this cover design case study from prolific, but lessor known travel guide publisher, Luster. See how they’ve incorporated niche norms into their covers, and what they could have done differently.

Just because someone has already established themselves in a niche in the blogging landscape, doesn’t mean it’s ruled out for you. If you want to compete with them, you can bring your unique perspective and voice to your content in order to stand out.

This case study looks at the different line-looks Rick Steves uses for his travel guides. He’s carved a niche for himself in Europe, and is a one-man travel dynamo. See what design tips you can pick up from his book covers.

What happens if you chose Expanded Distribution for your paperback through Amazon KDP and then change your mind after you’ve published? I ran into duplicate ISBN issues when I tried setting up my title through IngramSpark, and here’s how I handled expanding my distribution network, without having to set up a new book listing on Amazon or assign a new ISBN.

Read about the benefits and disadvantages of self-publishing a POD paperback, before you decide on your indie author publishing strategy.

The cover for my book A Turbulent Mind is in the top ten nonfiction covers of 2018 in Kobo Writing Life’s Cover Competition.

Read about the benefits and disadvantages of self-publishing an ebook, before you decide on your indie author publishing strategy.