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Lucky Me

I am an incredibly lucky person.

Tonight I attended a book tour and interview for journalism icon, Nina Totenberg. I’ve been a fan of hers all my professional life. When I had a commute, I listened intently to her on NPR to and from work. Weeks ago I bought her audiobook Dinners With Ruth.

My husband and I listened to it on our recent trip to and from the San Francisco Bay Area from our home in Southern California. I was really excited and looking forward to the evening, to hearin...

Writing in the Galleries (I)

My artist date this week was signing up for the free program Writing in The Galleries from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. I facilitate a group of people via Facebook who are using Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way for recovering their creativity. Morning pages and artist’s dates are two fundamental practices we’re working on this month (contact me if you’d like to know more).

Poet Rick Benjamin gave us a mini-lecture on his take on Ekphrastic Poetry, time scarcity skepticism, and a few of ...

Writing in the Galleries

My artist date this week was signing up for the free program Writing in The Galleries from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. I facilitate a group of people via Facebook who are using Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way for recovering their creativity. Morning pages and artist’s dates are two fundamental practices we’re working on this month (contact me if you’d like to know more).

Poet Rick Benjamin gave us a mini-lecture on his take on Ekphrastic Poetry, time scarcity skepticism, and a few of ...

Bye, St. Pancras(es)!

Road names change over time, one of the challenging (and sometimes exciting) aspects of literary tourism. I’ve documented several instances of roads in Adams’ novels that do this, including St. Pancras Street (NW1 2SD). It’s another place eliminated from the Douglas Adams’ London Map. (Don’t worry, we’ve included reference to it in the iPhone App. It is an important route used in Dirk’s Walk.)

St. Pancras Street in Teatime was “fictional” by the time I went to London to find it. Being able...

Concept to Broadcast: Producing a Podcast is More Than Just Talk

A Guest Post by Leanne Elliott

A few months ago, I did one of those free online boot camps that got me all fired up about becoming a podcaster and I thought, how hard could it be to go from concept to broadcast? With 2.4 million podcasts in the world, and a whopping 75% launching in just the last three years, there’s got to be a low barrier to entry. 

Enter The ClosetPodcasting From The Closet

On a sunny Saturday morning in September, with my three kids and husband at the other...

Congratulations Faces

Friends have started sending me snaps of their congratulations faces upon hearing that Douglas Adams’ London hit #1 in the niche category of Hot New Releases in London England Travel Books on Amazon.com:

Screenshot: We beat out Rick Steves for #1!

Always rooting for me, friend David Diamant sent this congratulations face:

Artist David Diamant

I was working on audio editing for Leanne Elliott’s Podcast, You’re Up First! when I found out the map had hit #1. My dear friends Ryan an...

Literary Tourism Alert

I’m always on the lookout for Hitchhiker’s articles, and this Literary Tourism Alert is about an article I read on Medium by Justin K Prim. Justin wrote about film locations from Hitchhiker’s projects. All of the places he mentions are on my list to visit (or visit again) and include in my book.

Sunset over CambridgeJustin’s Cambridge Tour

Justin enjoyed the Douglas Adams Cambridge Tour, guided by the incredible ZZ9 Past President David Haddock. David gave the tour this year on Ju...

Douglas Adams’ London Guide is Now Available to Pre-Order on Amazon!

Cover of Douglas Adams’ London Illustrated Guide from Herb Lester Associates

Pre-orders are now open on Amazon for the Douglas Adams’ London Map! It is listed as a hardcover although it is actually a protective, heavy cardstock sleeve.

Stay tuned for some videos showing examples of what the map will look like!

I hope every Douglas Adams fan gets their hands on this map!

Whether local or international, whether you’re heading to London now or dreaming of a literary pilgrimage someday...

Day 5 NaNoWriMo Update

Here’s a Day 5 NaNoWriMo Update. This November (for those unaware, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month), I am doing a new and different project (on top of my other work).

This weekend is also NaNoWriMo’s special fundraising campaign, so if you can spare a few bucks for a very worthy cause, please do so!

2022 NaNoWriMo Header

I’m co-writing what may be aiming to possibly be (c’mon, it’s day 5!) a YA Thriller.

I’m doing it with my long-time pen pal (who doesn...

Bye, Ricky

Though integral to the Hitchhikers story, A Small Cafe in Rickmansworth was cut from the forthcoming Herb Lester Associates map.

“Bye, Ricky!”

Just like with Heathrow, there were a few reasons, but mainly because it is not truly “London.” It’s miles from everything else on the map.

Also because as the human guide, although I have been to Rickmansworth twice, I’ve never been in a “cafe” there. A British cafe is the US equivalent of a diner. They serve full meals, unlike a cof...