New edition of best “how-to” text published

I advised in Resources that travel journalists with time to read just one of the “how-to” texts should order The Travel Writer’s Handbook: How to Write — and Sell — Your Own Travel Experiences. That was the 6th edition, published in 2007, in which Louise Purwin Zobel and Jacqueline Harmon Butler provided comprehensive, coherent, accessible advice.

A 7th edition was published in April 2012, and is stronger in several ways. Most importantly, this edition recognizes that opportunities to publish in print are in decline, and most new opportunities are to be found online.

Butler handled the new edition on her own. Zobel died in June 2008.