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September 7, 2008

Stories in Travel books:

Saucy schemes and new stories

Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, April 3rd, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Biography/memoir, Bookbloggery, Crafts/garden, History, Magazines, My California, Newspapers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Travel books

The travel writer and the monk

Today is publication day for The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer, who divides his time between Santa Barbara and Japan and first visited the exiled Dalai Lama at age 17. “A brilliant pairing of writer and subject,” says Publishers Weekly. We have to agree.
Read an excerpt [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, March 25th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: New Release 2008, Philosophy/religion, Travel books

Glorying in the road trip

The NYT’s Paper Cuts blog has an interesting Q&A today with San Francisco writer Sean Wilsey, who talks about his current project, a book called State by State, inspired by the 1930s era Federal Writers’ Project. Read more here.

Posted by Donna Wares, February 22nd, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Author's life, Bookbloggery, History, Projects, San Francisco, Travel books

Today’s quote

“Writing tells you everything you need to know about yourself and the world you live in, in part by making you immaterial or even mute. You think you’re describing something outside yourself, but — as every photographer knows — every portrait you make is, in some way, a self-portrait.” — Pico Iyer writing in an [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, February 13th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Author's life, New Release 2008, Nonfiction, Philosophy/religion, Travel books

Donna’s Great Escapes for 2008

My story in today’s LA Times recounts how writing a travel book on great SoCal getaways jolted me out of my own weekend travel rut. You can read it here. And check out these handy Google maps to help find your way to five of my favorite quick escapes here.
My book is called Great Escapes: [...]

Posted by Donna Wares, January 6th, 2008 | Permalink
File under: Author's life, New Release 2008, Southern California, Travel books

SoCal So Cool

Donna’s on deadline on her new Southern California travel book. Lately she’s been everywhere: from the Tehachapis to Death Valley to Malibu; riding horses, meeting ostridges, patting llamas; eating hot dogs at a Padres Game in San Diego, tasting squash blossoms at the L.A. restaurant-of-the-moment Blue Velvet. Here’s a cool spinoff story about Rankin [...]

Posted by Kate Cohen, September 30th, 2007 | Permalink
File under: New Release 2008, Southern California, Travel books

Summer hours

Yes, postings here at CaliforniaAuthors have been kinda lite lately. Kate’s been painting and Donna’s been on the road working on SoCal So Cool, a travel book for Norton/Countrymen Press (more to come later) that this week required visiting extremely cool places like El Capitan Canyon and Ostrich Land.
So we update when we can … [...]

Posted by Kate Cohen, August 25th, 2007 | Permalink
File under: Site stuff, Travel books