Insight Guides Case Study for Travel Guide Covers
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Insight Guides

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.

Frommer's Travel Guide Cover Case Study
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Frommer’s

This case study looks at how Frommer’s designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Marco Polo Cover design case study
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Marco Polo

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.

DK eyewitness travel Cover design case study
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: DK Eyewitness Travel

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.

Rough Guides Cover design case study
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Rough Guides

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.

Alex Hallett
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Author Interview with Alex Hallatt

How did cartoonist Alex Hallatt blur the lines between #travelmemoir and #travelguide in her illustrated #ABasqueDiary book? Read her author interview to find out.

My 90 day experiment for nonfiction ebooks with KDP Select
Posted in Book Production How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide

My 90 Day Experiment for nonfiction ebooks with KDP Select

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.

How Travel Writers Self-Publish Podcast How Travel Writers work with a writing coach Gillian Culff
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How Travel Writers Self-Publish Podcast Ep#24: Travel Writing Tips and Advice from Writing Coach Gillian Culff

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.

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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Moon Guides

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.

How to use image grids in your ebook
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How to create image grids for your ebooks

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?

Case Study 500 Hidden Secrets Luster
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Luster’s 500 Hidden Secrets series

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.

Rick Steves Cover design case study
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Rick Steves

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.

Lonely Planet Cover design case study
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Travel Guide Cover Design Case Study: Lonely Planet

Nobody sells more travel guides than Lonely Planet. So when it comes to designing your travel guide cover, their covers should be the first ones you refer too for design inspiration. This case study article looks at the different line-looks they use for their guides.

What type of travel guide do you use?
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American Road Trip Planner Resources

I’ve been doing qualitative research to find out what type of travel guides different people use. This latest input is from Chelsea Nielsen, an American Road Trip Planner.

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Book Review of Jack Scott’s Travel Guide: Postcards from the Ege

Postcards from the Ege which takes the reader on a journey from Istanbul, and then follows the Aegean coastline of Turkey, to the Mediterranean shores of Antalya. Along the way Jack sends us postcards to introduce us to Izmir, Ephesus, and the Bodrum Peninsula, among many other modern day and historical locations.

Jay Artale at the Los Angeles Travel Show 2017
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Author Interview with Travel Guide Writer Jay Artale

Jay Artale shares you story about her journey from travel blogger to travel guide author, in this Warm Up Introductory article to our new Author Interview Series.