A Travelers Library

pen4hire on January 21st, 2010

VOTING CLOSED JANUARY 31. Thanks to all who supported A Traveler’s Library, and I hope you visited all the other nominees, including my favorite music blog (links below).
Whoo!Whoo! A Traveler’s Library has been chosen as a finalist in the 2010 Bloggie Awards Travel Blog category. And if that is not enough excitement for one [...]

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pen4hire on January 11th, 2010

Ten things I learned about Blogging during my first year on the job.

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pen4hire on October 19th, 2009

Traveler’s Library breaks some blogging rules. What I would like to know is, what works for YOU.

What kind of posts do you like?
What are you looking for when you come here?
If you just Stumbled in–did you find what you were looking for?
What countries, regions, authors, movies, do you want to see covered?

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pen4hire on August 3rd, 2009

Party Time. The Great 5 Day 5 Book Giveaway. Win a book here.
Five Readers will win One Book Each. Just browse through A Traveler’s Library posts and leave a comment on a post here or tweet @pen4hire, naming a book that I have discussed that you would like to win. No guarantees, because the winners [...]

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pen4hire on May 22nd, 2009

Yesterday A Traveler’s Library hit one of those landmark days, and I was not even here to celebrate. (I’m in New Orleans ensconced in my favorite hotel, Hotel Monteleone.)
Ta-Da–100 Posts!
Somehow, it seems appropriate, though, that I had a guest post on India here yesterday, because it is symbolic of the ways this blog has introduced [...]

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pen4hire on February 10th, 2009

One of the most popular and quoted blogs about books, Bookslut,  printed an interview last November with David Del Vecchio of Idlewild Books in New York.
Reading quotes like this, “My main advice to a first-time traveler would be to read something from, or at least set in, the place they’re going.” and “The books [...]

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