Solas Awards Deadline, Gutsy Women

Travelers' Tales News Brief TravelersTales.com  |  September 17, 2012 Solas Awards Deadline September 21 The deadline for this year's Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year is just a few days away. To enter this year's competition, go to BestTravelWriting.com and follow the instructions. The Solas Awards are an annual competition to find the best writing being done about the world today. The Travelers' Tales editors will choose winners in 21 categories ranging from adventure to humor, from destination to memoir, and everything in between. The grand prize category has cash awards of $1,000, $750, and $500; all other category winners receive bragging rights, an award certificate and the right to buy all Travelers Tales books at 50 percent off. Plus, winners may be published in Travelers' Tales books. Check out BestTravelWriting.com for details of the awards and more. As of today, competition is light in the following categories: Adventure Travel Animal Encounter Cruise Story Doing Good or the Kindness of Strangers Elder Travel Love Story Men's Travel Travel and Healing Travel and Shopping Travel and Sports Young Traveler All entries submitted by 11:59 p.m. PDT, September 21 will be eligible. Entries submitted after that will be entered in next year's competition. New Release: Gutsy Women, Fourth Edition Award-winning author Marybeth Bond offers you the fourth edition of her bestselling Gutsy Women, full of stories, advice, and inspiration with new content for Volunteer Travel, Boomers on the Go, and sixty pages of Stories from the Life of a Gutsy Traveler. Whether youre a graduate or a granny, a backpacker or a globetrotting business executive, its a must-read for the woman traveler. Essential reading for women travelers of any age. Chicago Tribune Fresh and insightful, even for the most seasoned traveler. Washington Post Packed with instructive and inspiring travel vignettes and tipsit is not just for adventure seekers or solo travelers. Boston Globe A nuts-and-bolts approach to womens travelseasoned advice geared both to novices and veterans. USA Today The perfect bon voyage gift for your favorite woman traveler. Living Fit Magazine MARYBETH BOND has visited 90+ countries and has produced 12 books for women who travel, including A Womans World, winner of the coveted Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book, and three National Geographic Girlfriends Getaways books. Marybeth has been on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and in The New York Times. She was on the cover of Outside Magazine in an issue about Making the Great Escape. Recently she rode her bike across America (3,115-miles) with her 21-year-old daughter and through her blog she raised $52,000 for her favorite charity. She has hiked, biked, dived, danced, snow-shoed, skied, climbed, helicoptered and trekked her way through 7 continents and 90 + countries, from the depths of the Flores Sea to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Shes in the field experiencing the gutsy life all the time. Events for Kin to the Wind Author Moro Buddy Bohn will appear at two events in the coming weeks for his book Kin to the Wind. See him at Barnes & Noble, 700 4th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, Saturday, Sept. 22 at 4 p.m., or at the St. Helena Public Library, 1492 Library Lane, St. Helena, CA, Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. Kin to the Wind is the memoir of Moro Buddy Bohn, a guitarist and composer who traveled the world in the 1960s as a troubadour using only his guitar performances as currency. Armed only with his guitar and an unshakable faith that love rules, he backpacked, alone and unknown, clear around the world. He made his way by playing his own kind of music for lodging, food, visas and passage, before benefactors that included knights, gypsies, royalty, smugglers, parliamentarians and terrorists. A charm born of trusting in love protected him in the face of life-threatening dangers. A former member of the world-famous New Christy Minstrels, hes played in more than 50 countriesin royal palaces, in African casbahs, and even on a British warshipin trade for his passage across the Indian Ocean. Bedouin smugglers took him across the Arabian Desert in their camel caravan, listening to his music beneath desert stars. Howard Hughes personally came to hear him at an engagement in Las Vegas. Paul Newman attended his performances nightly in Los Angeles. In Aix-en-Provence, Pablo Picasso gave him a standing ovation for his gypsy-roots adaptation of Malaguena. Moro's memoir is an account of life's magic, suffused with an almost childlike innocence in his pursuit of dreams and his belief in the goodness of people the world over. Copyright 2012, Travelers Tales/Solas House, Inc. All rights reserved. Please feel free to post this information on your web site or spread the word in other ways, such as e-mailing this newsletter to a business associate, family member, or friend. Thank you. Travelers Tales/Solas House, Inc. 2320 Bowdoin Street Palo Alto, CA 94306