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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Google Play Books to earn more royalties than going via a distributor.

Do you need some straight-talking tips to improve the quality of your book description? This 10 minute podcast offers tips specifically for nonfiction writers to entice readers to buy more books.

How to use vocabulary and sentence structure to develop a travel writing style that suits your target audience.

Do you know what travel information is important to your audience. In this podcast episode we look at a case study of a millennials travel research.

In this 10-minute podcast episode we look at the two different ebook distribution options available to you, if you want to avoid just go exclusive with Amazon.

How to use Author Avatars to define your writing tone, to improve the quality of your travel guide content.

Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Kobo Writing Life to earn more royalties than going via a distributor.

Confused about which point of views you can mix together when writing a travel guide? Use this guide and writing exercise to improve your travel writing.

In this 10-minute podcast we look at 3 different publishing strategies to consider and the benefits and drawbacks of Amazon KDP exclusivity:

Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Barnes & Noble Press to earn more royalties than going via a distributor.

The more specifically you define your book’s objective, the easier it will be to reach your target audience. Here’s a travel guide case study for my book.

In Episode #25 of our How Travel Writers Self-Publish we discover how to use your five sense to improve your travel writing. This 10-minute episode will catapult your writing.

I’m conducting an experiment by enrolling all my travel guides and nonfiction books into KDP select for 90 days to see how much royalty I receive from Amazon for page reads.

In this 20-minute show travel writer Jay Artale chats with editor and writing coach Gillian Culff. Discover how to establish a productive working relationship with a writing coach and use Gillian’s tips to improve your travel writing.

Learn what software and steps it takes to create and distribute your ebook directly via Apple Books. You can create gorgeous interactive books, but is it worth the effort?

Here’s a list of prompts you can use to assess each element of your competitive research. This will help you evaluate the viability of your book idea.

Step-by-step instructions for using Amazon to manually research and assess the competition for your guide book. This is a budget conscious way to complete a competitive analysis.

Introducing my five part series: Beginner’s Guide to ebook Self-Publishing Retailers to help you decide whether to go direct with a retailer or via a distributor.

There are multiple options for creating a flowable ebook file to upload to Amazon KDP. Choose one of these paid or free tools or software to take your book from final draft to published.

Do you want to take a simple or complex approach for formatting your ebook? There’s many paths you can take, and there’s no right answers. Just what’s right for YOU!

The impact of flowable vs. fixed layout text layouts in your ebook. The pros and cons of choosing the optimal ebook file format for your content. Fixed vs. Flowable.

Have you relocated to a new destination as an expat? Then you should consider sharing your first hand knowledge with other expats in the form of a How To Expat Travel Guide.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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