Long overdue thanks to my pal/colleague Natalie Bovis-Nelson for plugging my SIP Guide on her site, theliquidmuse.com , this fall.
Nat has a new book of her own out right now–The Bubbly Bride, released in November. It’s a cocktail book, and according to a recent LA Times review, the cocktails alone are motivation enough to inspire a marriage. This reviewer must be even more of a lush than I am.
Congratulations Natalie. Everyone else, buy that bubble-icious book right this minute!
I am not good at updating this site…but what’s the saying? Late is better than never?
In that spirit…here’s an E! Channel clip from back in October. Enjoy.
What u doing this Sunday, eh? If you’re in Los Angeles or anywhere within a hundred mile radius, you better be coming to see me at the West Hollywood Book Fair. I am exhibiting between 12PM (that’s noon) and 3PM, at the West Hollywood Writes tent. Or, alternatively, I might be at the Barnes & Noble tent. Don’t worry; they’re nearby each other. Come buy SIP, SUN & SNOW… or buy all three.
ALSO make sure and come by my workshop 3:30-5PM, “A Sense of Place.” It is FREE and in it, I will tell you exactly how to get out of your office job and have the coolest/funnest/travelingest job in the world. Yes, I’ll even tell you how to get to the point where you can make up your own words. (It takes years and lots of skillz, but it can be done.)
Here’s the link to the Fair. (In case you’re wondering, the worshop is in the Writing Room.)
Also, Orbitz blogged about it because they are RAD.
And, That Morning Show also plugged it because they are seeming to be pretty rad too!
I hope to see you there!
I was an on-camera travel expert on That Morning Show on E! Channel this past Thursday October 1st. Do I have a clip? NOT YET! But am working on it. In the meantime here is the link to the show site mentioning me.
I talked about wine country travel. In particular, Napa, Paso Robles and the wonderful Eastern Canadian province of Quebec. I didn’t get to talk about nearly as much as I wanted to, so I also gave ‘em a whole supplemental blog with hotel picks and wineries and whatnot. Hopefully they will post.
I will have a clip soon. Don’t u worry…
The Top 20 All-Inclusives package I did for Away this summer as part of their Best Resorts & Lodges home page feature has been up for two weeks–and finallyI get around to posting it.
http://vacation.away.com/plan-a-trip/best-resorts-and-lodges-sp.html
(As I’ve told many a PR who ought to know without asking, since my portion was All-Inclusives, you simply click on that link to see the property list. Then click on the property name to read the review. If you’re having a hard time believing that there is a publicist on the planet who can’t figure that out in the year 2009, then I’m right there with ya.)
Reuters was much more efficient in spreading the word about this fabulous new effort of Away’s than I was. The newswire service posted the official release last week, right here.
All the resorts in this feature were obviously gorgeous and posh, but the ones that won the congeniality award (for being nice to work with)…I would say Curtain Bluff (even though Antigua has a ways to go), La Source, Hacienda Tres Rios (gold star!) and Grand Velas. The Wyoming property was cool, too, but it was such a brief encounter, my mind is dim. Oh, and the Paradisus Guanacaste. It’s a Costa Rican property, and therefore charming in such extremes that you just want to hug everyone you meet.
I wrote the Viceroy section only. Wish I could have done more. This package looks beautiful and reads really well too. Brides sets the standard for wedding magazines.
(Teaser: I just finished another three sections for an upcoming Brides travel section which will go unnamed for now…stay tuned for more details.)
Arthur Frommer Girlfriend Getaways, women’s travel mag and upscale Budget Traveler offshoot, published a “Great Escapes” getaway piece I wrote on San Miguel de Allende. Should be on newsstands this month.
(Disclaimer: My version suggested a free tour of historic churches, ending in the town square. NOT a once-a-week paid walking tour of private homes. I think a new editor slipped that in there so she could feel she’d made her mark.)
At last, I’m posting the PDFs received in the past month. For road trippers, a piece on California’s best coastal parks (LA to SF only). Published in local LA magazine Whole Life Times.
Thanks to my editor Abigail for giving me the slot at the 11th hour, so I could alert LA locals to the parks’ budgetary situation and showcase some of the landmarks on the closure list. All of them are still in danger of closing within the next couple of years, thanks to the incompetent machinations of our state government & bureaucracy.
LA INC wanted to excerpt my interview with Olympic champ Kerri Walsh from the SUN Guide to use on their DiscoverLA.com site in conjunction with the AVP Crocks Hermosa event. I said…cool deal! Here’s “Kerri Walsh’s LA” along with my own about-town Hermosa Beach picks. Look for interviews with the AVP gold medal boys when the tour comes back around to Manhattan Beach…
It’s been several weeks since I posted any Orbitz clips, so I’m a bit backlogged. Here are the latest, in one post:
Curacao — This super-colorful Caribbean island deserves a column of its very own, IMHO.
Los Angeles — Lots of restaurants and bars opening in LA this summer. I did a roundup to cover as many as possible.
Hawaii — Beaches, beaches, beaches of summer. And still a thousand more to go…