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Contact: Barbara Hudgins 908-647-6039
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And Now: A Guide for Guidebook Authors

There are plenty of ads for travel writers: most promise free trips and lucrative assignments. All you have to do is fork over $149 to learn the secret to fame, fortune and round-the-world trips. Then there are the solid, researched how-to books that teach neophytes how to construct appealing articles and approach editors. But these are all geared to the newspaper, magazine and internet markets.

At long last, a guide written exclusively for writers of travel books has appeared. And the scope of this one includes guidebooks, directories, travel memoirs, and how-to-do-it manuals. Barbara Hudgins, a best-selling guidebook author, has put together this helpful compilation that is as useful to seasoned travel journalists as it is to the aspiring travel writer.

Crafting the Travel Guidebook covers such diverse subjects as: finding your category and niche, formatting and boundaries, understanding your audience and finding your voice. There are also sections on travel writing tips and research, copyright and plagiarism, where to find photographs and illustrations and editing and rewriting. A final section is devoted to understanding the book publishing world and contains a 15-page list of publishers who accept travel books.

The book is available at all online bookstores.

Title: Crafting the Travel Guidebook: How to Write, Publish & Sell Your Travel Book,
ISBN number: 978-0-9607762-0-7
Publisher: The Woodmont Press, P.O. Box 16
Liberty Corner, NJ 07938
Author: Barbara Hudgins
Price: $17.95
Pages: 288
Telephone: 908-647-6039
E-mail via our our Contact Page

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About Barbara Hudgins
Barbara Hudgins is best known as the original author and self-publisher of New Jersey Day Trips. This guidebook sold over 110,000 copies in several editions before she sold the rights to Rutgers University Press. She also co-authored the 10th edition put out by that press. She was the subject of a chapter in the book Make Money Self-Publishing by Suzanne Thomas, as an example of a successful regional author.

Barbara’s travel column, which covers both local and foreign trips, has appeared in The Madison Eagle, the Bernardsville News and other newspapers in northern New Jersey. Her day trip articles have also been featured in Garden State Woman and New Jersey, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. National magazines such as Signature, Woman’s World and Foreword have published her free-lance pieces on a variety of subjects.

The author has lived in New York, New Mexico, Hawaii and Virginia, but has made her home in New Jersey for the past 30 years. She holds a Master's degree in Library Science and has worked at the New York Public Library, Hunter College Library and the University of Hawaii. A former English major in college, she began writing music, movie and theater reviews before gravitating to travel writing. Her two children, Lani and Robert, now grown and with families of their own, helped her to research the many destinations that appear in her books and articles.

It was only after she had worked with a traditional publisher and gone through all the phases of working with an editor and a co-author that the concept for this book formed. Although there are several guides to travel writing on the market, they all concentrate on selling to magazine, newspaper and internet editors. Why not, she thought, create something geared to the book publishing? Barbara’s background and knowledge of self-publishing give her the expertise to successfully market in the publishing world. Her experience as an author for a traditional publisher, as a self-publisher and as a freelance writer, positions her as a unique expert in all of these fields.

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