Short Guide to Guidebooks at Joshua Berman Blog

Joshua Berman is an experience travel writer and guide book writer, and at his blog he has a great entry about writing guide books. It's in a Q&A format and is a must-read for those who want to write one of these. A short take: better have a good reason to do one because the advance will probably only cover your expenses if you do it right and have to travel to the destination. He notes that he only knows of "a handful" of writers who actually make a living doing this type of work. Even spinning off magazine articles doesn't seem to do the trick, so he takes season work as well to make ends meet.