Ray Bartlett has written dozens of best selling travel guidebooks for Lonely Planet, Insight Guides, Moon Handbooks, and other top-industry publishers. He is the author of the novels Sunsets of Tulum (2015) and Celadon (2020), the memoir In the Sunlight of Sakurajima (2015), and he has been featured in numerous magazines, journals, and newspapers over the years. Contact him via his website (www.kaisora.com) or follow him on social media (FB: RayBartlettAuthor, IG/Twitter @kaisoradotcom). When not on the road, Ray enjoys surfing, dancing Argentine tango, cooking, and playing saxophone.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Vital Importance of Craft

2. Getting Started

3. Magical Mentors

4. Goal Setting for Clarity and Success

5. Making Luck Happen

6. Queries and Agents and Publishers, Oh My!

7. Persist or Perish

8. When Writer's Block Rears its Ugly Head

9. Re-evaluate

10. Managing Success

About the Author

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