Travel writers and beer

July 19th, 2008

I caught up last night with fellow travel authors Marc Llewellyn and Simon Capp for an ale and a curry at the Prince of Wales pub in St Kilda and we talked about in-house editors, master proofs, royalty statements and subsidiary rights. It’s nice to meet up with other authors and talk shop. Because we live in our own little worlds and spend most of our time writing away in dark little rooms we have little contact with other writers and it’s not often that I get to say ‘ms’ to people who know what I’m taking about (ms is manuscript in case you’re interested). We were also there to plan Marc and Simon’s session for the Melbourne Travel Writer’s Festival, but that just seemed to get in the way of beer drinking. You can catch me tomorrow (Sunday) at the Writer’s Festival and don’t worry if you can’t make it – I’ll be posting a podcast of one of my sessions on the blog next week.

2 Responses to “Travel writers and beer”

  • On July 22nd, 2008 Hackpacker said:

    Certainly was good to bust out of the own little world and see other writers. Looking forward to the couchsurfing book based on your chat at the fest.

    Whatever happened to that podcast… I’m putting it down to too much beer.

  • On August 4th, 2008 Marc llewellyn said:

    I wished I’d take you up on your offer to sleep on your couch! The ancient prostitutes standing outside my tragic hotel were a real turn off.

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