How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide #1 (Plan your Book): Create Passive Income from your Travel Writing

by Jay Artale

I demystify the steps involved in writing and self-publishing a travel guide and provide you with the information and tools you need to achieve your self-publishing success. Your time is precious, and this planning guide speeds up your creative process.
In this first book, we focus entirely on the Travel Guide Planning Process , in 7 manageable
To take your travel blog to the next level, build your brand awareness and establish your subject-matter expertise, you need to expand your content offerings over and above simple blog articles. You may be tempted to skip this planning book and dive straight into the writing phase, but the more time you spend on this initial planning phase, the greater the benefit will be in the long-run.
If you believe you have a fresh perspective or insights to bring to a destination you’re passionate about, and want to earn passive income from your knowledge and expertise, this book is for you. 
As a travel blogger, the most obvious path to achieving a broader reach is to leverage your travel writing skills and repurpose the content you’ve already created on your blog. 
I've created a set of free downloadable workbooks, worksheets, and toolkits to help you naviagate your way through all of the steps needed to plan your travel guide.
Here’s a summary of the other three books in the
How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide #2: Write Your Book How to Write and Self-Publish and Travel Guide #3: Publish Your Book
How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide #4 Market Your Book Each book in this travel writing series covers a distinct set of activities to get your thoughts organized, together they take you from the seed of an idea to passive income stream. It's how I was able to quit my corporate job to become a full-time travel writer and digital nomad. If you're a travel blogger looking to make more money - isn't it time you wrote a travel guide?

194 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2018

About the author

Originally from the flatlands and big skies of rural Norfolk in eastern England, Jay Artale is a British Expat currently living in Los Angeles.

For the last couple of decades Jay has juggled her day job as a project manager with her passions for writing, photography and international travel.

In 2008, Jay bought a holiday home on the trendy Bodrum Peninsula along Turkey’s beautiful Aegean coast. Despite its popularity with Turkish and international visitors, and a destination of choice for thousands of expatriates looking for their place in the sun, well-researched and comprehensive guides to the Peninsula were thin on the ground.

Jay decided to plug this gap and enthusiastically set about capturing the local area in words and pictures. In 2010, Jay launched the ‘Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide’ website to share her knowledge and experiences with a wider audience. What began life as random facts and observations, hand-written in little note books has grown into a well-respected and popular travel site. In 2012, Jay began publishing free location-specific Quick Reference Travel Guides for the area.

A full-blown guide seemed to be the next logical step. ‘The Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide: Turkey’s Aegean Gem’ was published on Kindle in May 2013.

The following year, her next guidebook "The Gumusluk Travel Guide: Bodrum's Silver Lining" was published.

Together, these two travel guides are the go-to guides for any traveller to Turkey's Bodrum Peninsula.

Jay runs a Content Marketing & Social Media Management business, and provides social media strategy, planning and management to entrepreneurs and small businesses. For more information visit her website at www.jayartale.com.

She also blogs about her Expat Adventures at her personal blog www.rovingjay.com.