Scooter in the Sticks is
writer/photographer Steve Williams' lovely poetic blog about rides on his Vespa in rural Pennsylvania. If I ever go there I'll puruse his writings for ideas on backroads to take through the state. Really great photography, too.
Next Saturday is the Spring Equinox and could the beginning of your journey to becoming a published writer - or if you are a published writer, to start taking control of your own works instead of sacrificing them to the crumbling publishing empire.
On March 21st I'm co-teaching a workshop on self-publishing with my adventure travel writing colleague and longtime teacher Lisa Alpine in Mill Valley, California. I'm really looking forward to sharing the journeys I took publishing my three books, Cycling the French Riveria, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, and American Borders. They were all very different experiences and have followed the cutting edge of everything in self-publishing and new media, and I want to show you how you can do it, too.
This all-day class will be small in size so that we can give you personal attention. We'll cover the process and possibilities from beginning to end from creating your book, editorial and proofreading, design and layout, printing and electronic delivery, website and online store, distribution, promotion and marketing, social media, and more.
By the end of the class you'll be armed with all the information you need to publish your story(ies) or book online or in print. This high-energy class is guaranteed to get you motivated and on your way to becoming a published author! Sign up now - space is really limited.
Click the image below or visit http://www.carlaking.com/workshops/ for more information. You're also welcome to email me about the class. I hope to see you and help you jumpstart your writers journey next week!
I'll be co-leading a writing workshop in Mill Valley, California, with my friend and colleague Lisa Alpine on self-publishing. This is a $95 day-long workshop with a tasty lunch in a fabulous, supportive environment.
In 1974 Ted Simon set out on a round-the-word motorcycle journey, and his account of the four-year odyssey, Jupiter's Travels, has long been "the" classic motorcycle travel tale. His new book, Dreaming of Jupiter, is the story of how he did it all again at age 69. The delightful Dreaming of Jupiter is the tale of that adventure. How did Ted become a writer? A motorcyclist? How have life's interruptions determined his path? Listen to a conversation on life, travel, love, and writing with Ted and Carla on the Miss Adventuring podcast.
Adrian Blake's guest tomorrow (Wednesday at 8:30 pm EST) on his Ride! podcast is ‘Doc flash’ aka the Motorcycling Doctor, who I met by chance in a gas station in Marin. (See blog entry.) For years flash gordon, m.d., has dispensed practical medical advice, along with a good dose of humor, through his 'Medical Motorcycling' column in Motorcycle Consumer News. His book is a great read and, more than that, an essential reference guide for motorcyclists to absorb before we fall off our bikes. How to treat road rash? How to pop your shoulder back into its socket in an emergency? How to keep your teeth viable while you're on your way to the hospital? The doc's got all the techniques to make all those moments you never want to experience a better experience. Ride! will talk to the doc with the superhero name about Blood, Sweat & 2nd Gear: More Medicine for Motorcyclists, a collection of those columns. (Order the book, here.) Ride! is an Internet radio podcast hosted by Adrian Blake, a longtime motorcycle columnist, that will air tomorrow at 8:30 pm. EST. Check it out live and participate, or hear it on the archive at your convenience. Here's where to go.
Backroads magazine has an online version as well as a print monthly. They say they are "Available
in select shops from North Carolina to the Canadian border, each month
Backroads gives riders places to go and things to see. Then we give you
superb roads to ride with our own Rip & Ride Route Sheets™." If you live in the area, or just want to travel there, you'll find some good rides.
Thanks to Michael Murray (of the Motorcycle Travel DVDs) for sending the info.
Tune in now to listen to the first show with Lisa Alpine, who makes her living as a travel writer and dance workshop leader.
It all began on her 18th birthday when she boarded a plane to Paris and started working her way around the world. Lisa describes how she created a career of travel writing and leading dance workshops, how she makes money, how inspiration and intuition guide her life, and the joys and challenges of family, love, and relationships in a career that has taken her off the beaten path. Most of all, get her tips for creating your own path and business from what you love to do, whatever that may be. Lisa is all about encouragement!
You'll also hear the multi-talented D. Brent Miller on the podcast. He's the Ohio-based publisher of Sojourn Chronicles, as well as an audio engineer and professional sidekick.
What is the Miss Adventuring Podcast?
The Miss Adventuring podcast is a weekly MP3 audio program where you'll hear from guests who share tips for those of us who want to create our own fabulously misadventurous life. When you click "Listen Now" the program will either stream or download to your computer depending on how you've set your system to handle MP3 files (iTunes, Windows Media Player, Realplayer, QuickTime).
I hope you enjoy the show, and I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to comment on the format, the guest, or if you have questions or suggestions, or even want to send me your stories of how a misadventure changed your life for the better. Don't forget, subscribe to the Miss Adventuring mailing list if you haven't already.
Thanks for tuning in!
Carla King
Miss Adventuring
Greg Williams writes the "On the Road" column for the Calgary Herald’s Driving.ca section. Inside Motorcycles magazine published his entertaining review of American Borders in their magazine. You can read it on his blog.
D. Brent Miller of Sojourn Chronicles reviewed American Borders and interviewed me (available streaming online) for his motorcycle travel blog and multimedia site. In the interview we discuss the American Borders trip, how it came about as a series of dispatches and the process of turning those largely journalistic entries into the much more personal memoir. I hope you enjoy it. (Read/hear it here.)
I'd like to invite all of you who have answers and questions about riding in the American West to visit http://OpenRoad.TV to see some great stories and video footage from Doug McConnell's tours and interviews from the area. For those of you who don't live in the Bay Area, Bay Area Backroads is one of the most well-loved and longest-running shows in tv history. Doug and his crew are making video segments from the show available on the Internet so they're available all over the world. They've managed to figure out the video compression thing on the Internet so you can view short segments with relative ease. Check it out! There are some beautiful beautiful beautiful videos of national parks and cowboy towns and roadside attractions -- all the sights and sounds and people you want to meet when you're on a road trip.
I'm a moderator for the brand new motorcycle touring forum there, so please visit and contribute your knowledge about motorcycle touring in the American West. Your favorite places, recommendations for motorcycle rentals, and the nuts and bolts of getting from here to there and there to here are all welcome. It's also a place to post questions. I know that a lot of you from all over the world have knowledge and have questions, and it would be great to meet you on the forum! Just go to http://OpenRoad.TV and click Forum, and you'll find the Motorcycle Touring interest on the list. See you there!
Carla
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