Getting Your Travel Book Published
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.
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