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A Conversation with Adventure Travel Blogger Matt Karsten
Matt Karsten calls himself the Expert Vagabond–and for good reason! After leaving his full-time job to pursue adventure travel writing and photography, Matt has built up a big audience and made a name for

Book Marketing in the Digital Age
When I look back on my book sales over the past 10 or 12 years, the revenues tend to average out to a shade over $1,000 per month. Some months are better, some are

Travel Writing During Lockdowns: What Worked in an Awful Year?
Probably when we’re 80 years old, we’ll still look back at 2020 as one of the worst years ever, for a whole host of reasons. It was an especially bad year to be someone

The Cost to Publish a Book Yourself and The Faster Path to Profits
With the cost to publish a book yourself so low these days, your path to profit is much faster doing it independently on your own. There are still a few good reasons to put

Abandoned Factories and Shuttered Print Publications
Whenever there’s a transition from one kind of demand to another, the creative destruction can be painful. That’s true in all types of business, from blue-collar manufacturing to white-collar professional services. There are a
