You know you're "out there" once the anthology you're in goes on sale.Experimental Travel is on sale through Lonely Planet, the travel guide company. Yup, it's gone down to $9.99, which means that once this stash is gone, it'll only be found in used bookstores, trashbins, and the homes of travelers who have about forty travelguides all lined up. But wait! My friend in Sydney told me it's down to $6 on Amazon. Ah yes, he's such a reassuring fellow...must be the vegemite talking.
If they don't get purchased, the editors down in Footscray will once again find creative uses for the unwanted books. In an attempt to be green, the employees of LP write on top of old guidebooks put together with duct tape in the shape of desks. So please, lest my writing end up as enviro toilet paper in some stall at LP headquarters..... buy one, no... buy three or four.
Rachel Antony from Australia and Jöel Henry from France were the editors on this
project. They coordinated 40 writers and non-writers from around the world to go along with a concept called "Experimental Travel," whether or not we understood what the heck they were talking about. Okay. My assignment. Easy. Take Hula Girl through the California & Arizona desert to the Grand Canyon. Enough? Okay, so if you must know, it also got a solid review from Asia edition of TIME. The concept was French, and at this time since the Americans were busy eating their Freedom Fries, they gave it a dousing on Amazon. The Aussies simply wanted to have fun and make a buck. And the French? Hey, books are... well, they just are and they let them be. Proof once again of the cultural divides.So there... buy my book or it'll end up taped together with unsold guides to far-flung places and used as a footstool by someone with unwashed TEVAS. As for me, I'm buying a few more. I plan to use them as trivets!
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Kanani,
I want one, with your autograph of course. Do you have a copy I can buy from you, or should I purchase the book online?
I used the Lonely Planet Guide decades ago when I first crossed the Big Sea, and have fond memories of that time. At present, we are awash in travel guides of various sorts (a long story), but I will keep an eye out for yours!
ed, juat buy it from Amazon or LP. And yes, bring it by and I'll sign it for you!
Hey! I have that book! When my wife and I had a weekend away in Berwick-on-Tweed a couple of months ago, she saw it in an Oxfam shop and thought it looked like the kind of book I'd like.
It's been sitting in my "To look at when I have a bit of indulgent time available" pile. Which chapter is yours? I'll check it out right away.
I love you as a person, yoru writing, your heart.
But I started making fin of the whole ET idea from its inception. I think the world came to agree with me.
It was all just a bit twee and pretentious.
Phoenix
Of course you love me. I pay you big money to love me.
The book was one of those outerspace writers experiences. Submit the piece as is..... an 800 word descriptive piece of the desert. Editor writes back and wants to know more stuff... maybe it's French thing to want a deeper answer. So I dash off a lengthy answer to their questions, not thinking much about it.
I get the book back. And there it is. The original article and the answer to their question woven together!
Ah well. It was an anthology produced by a major publisher in an international market. Did I care? No. I didn't. I got what I sought to do... get published.
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