Travel Writing With Jeremy Bassetti

What are the different types of travel books and how can you blend them within the genre? How can we tackle our imposter syndrome when writing in a genre we love? Jeremy Bassetti explores these questions and more in today's show. In the intro, my 10-year author entrepreneur lessons learned; the different stages of an author business [Ask Alli]; London: A Personal History. Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, where you can get free ebook formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Get your free Author Marketing Guide at www.draft2digital.com/penn Jeremy Bassetti is a travel writer, editor, teacher, and author of historical fiction. He's the host of two podcasts, Travel Writing World and Sonus Loci: The Sound of Place. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.  Show Notes * What drives the human desire for travel?* The different types of travel books. Jeremy has a great article on this: 10 Travel Book Sub-Genres with Examples* Is an emotional journey necessary in a travel memoir?* How nature writing and travel writing overlap* Pitfalls to watch out for in travel writing* Sensory descriptions that bring readers a richer experience* How to deal with travel writer imposter syndrome — and how practice can help you break through it (and I have some personal reflections on this in the show introduction!) You can find Jeremy Bassetti at JeremyBassetti.com and on Twitter @jeremybassetti Transcript of Interview with Jeremy Bassetti Joanna: Jeremy Bassetti is a travel writer, editor, teacher, and author of historical fiction. He's the host of two podcasts, Travel Writing World and Sonus Loci: The Sound of Place. Welcome, Jeremy. Jeremy: Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here, Jo. Joanna: I'm excited to talk to you. Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. Jeremy: I'm a teacher and I've been doing academic research and writing for literally half of my life since university. My plan was always to turn my attention to creative writing, to creative nonfiction when I finished grad school. I always said that like I didn't want to be a secondary source. I wanted to be a primary source. I wanted to create the type of things that I was s...