Arthur's Blog: Spaces Still Available for the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference in Corte Madera CA

It's probably a false sense of modesty that has kept me, until now, from mentioning that travel writers and editors associated with Frommers.com and Frommer's Travel Guides will be among the faculty at this year's 21st annual Travel Writers and Photographers Conference at Book Passage (a famous, independent bookstore just north of San Francisco) in Corte Madera, California, August 9 to 12. Speaking at that conference (which is actually a school for aspiring travel writers and photographers) will be my daughter, Pauline Frommer (guidebook author, blogger, syndicated travel columnist, and co-host with me of the weekly Travel Show) and David Lytle, Editorial Director of Frommers.com and featured speaker on countless radio and tv broadcasts dealing with travel.
I've been told that places are still available at this year's conference, which has launched numerous talented writers onto a successful career of travel writing. The faculty at this year's conference, as has been the case with every year's conference for the past 20 years, includes some of the most important names in travel journalism: Don George, Andrew McCarthy (yes! the actor-turned-travel writer), Peter Greenberg, Phil Cousineau, Susan Orlean, Spud Hilton, and many others. My own appearances at the conference have been tremendously fulfilling for myself, among the most memorable of any I can remember. Every important aspect of the travel writers' life is discussed and dissected, to the great benefit -- in my view -- of every would-be travel journalist attending.
Either phone 800/999-7909 or 415/835-1020, or visit www.bookpassage.com/travel-writers-photographers-conference.