TED Talk: JK Rowling at Harvard University...

"Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers advice to dreamers and overachievers at this Harvard University commencement speech.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

TED Talk: Gary Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0 Expo 2008...

I found this TED talk video via Cuaderno Inedito

It's a talk that Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library did at Web 2.0 Expo 2008.

His advice - do what you love with no excuses!

Video: Travel Blogger Sherry Ott Talks to Dispatches 2.0...

Need some inspiration?

Look no further than Sherry Ott, who left the corporate world, took off around the world, and created the popular travel blog ottsworld.com

2009 Book Passages Travel Writers Conference: Tim Cahill talks...

Here's a video presentation from Tim Cahill for all of us who didn't manage to get to this year's Travel Writers Conference...

Top Photojournalist offers Top Tips for Great Travel Photos...

Galavanting interviews Photojournalist Peter McBride...

2007 Writer's Symposium by the Sea: Anne Lamott...

A Conversation with writer Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird) at the Writer's Symposium By the Sea 2007



(found via Brett Oppegaard)

TED Video: NTG Editor Keith Bellows Talks About the Camel...

Keith Bellow, National Geographic Traveler Editor-in-Chief talks about the camel, who he calls 'the SUV of the desert' in this TED talk...

Authors@Google: Paul Hudson.

Paul Hudson discusses his self-published book "Prelude to Tomorrow: A Collection of Travel Stories".

Video: Don George Talks About Good Travel Writing...

A National Geographic Traveler interview with Don George, NGT's online Trip Lit editor...

Galavanting Video Interview with Travel Writer Eva Holland...

Good news for those of you who enjoyed Write to Travel's 'Interview with a Travel Writer' series - Galavanting, the online Women's Travel Magazine and Community, is planning on running regular video interviews with travel writers.

Here's their first one with Eva Holland...

Writers in the Sky 2008 Keynote Address by travel writer Rob Story...

Rob Story, winner of the 2003-2004 Lowell Thomas Award, doing the keynote address at the Writers in the Sky 2008. Rob is a Telluride-based Outside magazine correspondent and also the author of Outside Adventure Travel: Mountain Biking.

Authors@Google Video: Stephanie Griest

Author Stephanie Griest discusses her book "Mexican Enough: My Life between the Borderlines"...

Michael Pollen Talks About Writing...

A Berkeley Writers at Work video from August 2007:

A Book called 'Ultimate Blogs'

Interesting Authors@google talk by Sarah Boxer who researched and wrote a book called 'Ultimate Blogs'...

The Travel Media Showcase...

Here's a slice of the Travel Media Showcase for those of us who never got there...

Win a Copy of the Food Matters DVD.

Just wanted to share with Write to Travel readers a great DVD giveaway over at Healthbolt.

Food Matters is an independently funded film looks at the trillion dollar worldwide ’sickness industry’ and ask why ‘despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies.’

It’s been called the ‘food equivalent’ of The Inconvenient Truth.

Healthbolt has five copies of the Food Matters DVD to giveaway.

Check out the film’s trailer….



And then enter here.

Dealing the Writers Block...

Writers Block - it's something that all writers have to deal with. But what is it and how do you deal with it...

These videos might not help but they will entertain...

Authors@Google: J. Maarten Troost...

Travel Writer J. Maarten Troost, author of Getting Stoned with Savages and The Sex Lives of Cannibals, reads from his new book Lost on Planet China (The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid) and answers questions...



For more on J. Maarten Troost, check out this interview over at Vagabonding.

A Day in the Life of a...Travel Guidebook Writer.

Remember travel writer Jeremy Head?

Write to Travel interviewed him last month.

He's the author of Frommer's Seville Day by Day Guide and he's posted a video on YouTube highlighting what life was like on the road while writing the Seville guidebook...



If you want to find out what Jeremy is up to these days, head over to his travelblatherer blog.

Authors@Google: Photographer Joe McNally.

Photographer Joe McNally discusses his book "The Moment It Clicks."