For all you travel writers out there, an interesting interview over at the Written Road with writer Tim Leffel, author of Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler's Guide to Getting More for Less.

JL: What kinds of steps did you have to go through to get this book published and how long did it take?

TL: I started putting the proposal together at the end of 2003 and shot it out to a few publishers in early 2004. I quickly realized I didn't have the time or the patience to keep blindly doing that for months on end though, so I blasted out a query letter to a bunch of literary agents and got responses from five who wanted to represent me. Then proposals went out to more publishers through the agent and in June of last year I ended up working out a deal with Travelers' Tales. I handed the first half of the book in last fall, the second half this past January. So all in all, it was over two and a half years from concept to finished product. This is not an endeavor for the impatient!

Read the whole thing here.