From Concept to Kindle in Three Weeks

Jan. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- The award-winning British travel writer Mike Gerrard has self-published a selection of his travel writing, and it took him just three weeks from waking up with the idea to seeing the book on sale on the Kindle. Another week saw the paperback copy for sale on Amazon.

Mike’s travels for newspapers including The Times in London and magazines such as Time Out and Wanderlust have provided him with some unusual experiences. He has been camel-trekking with Bedouin tribesmen at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, found himself dodging orangutan dung in Sumatra, canoeing in Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta, meeting Morgan Freeman in Mississippi, and even going to a country that doesn’t exist.

‘I woke up one morning,’ said Mike, ‘and this idea popped into my head, as ideas do. A lot of my best travel writing - some of which had won awards in Britain and in the USA - had disappeared. It existed on my hard drive, but was published before newspapers and magazines started building websites.  It therefore only now existed in the print archives of those publications, and on my computer. Could I publish a selection of the best of it, the pieces that had stood the test of time and still made a good read?”

The result is Snakes Alive, a collection of 56 travel pieces that span the globe, from Nicaragua to New Zealand, from Memphis to Mexico, and from Bob Marley’s Jamaica to Hank Williams’ Alabama.

The Author
Mike Gerrard  has won several awards for his travel writing, from the British Guild of Travel Writers, the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, Travelex, and a Benjamin Franklin Award for the Best Guidebook to Paris. His work has appeared in most of Britain’s major newspapers, in The Washington Post and The Australian, and on websites. He has written guidebooks for National Geographic, Michelin, Dorling Kindersley, Thomas Cook, AA, AAA, and Fodor’s.

For more information see Mike Gerrard’s website: www.mikegerrard.com

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