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With a free Google Account you have access to the Apps that we use here at TRAVEL WRITERS ONLINE to manage the blog, to explore maps, to share slides, and to publish eBooks, new audio books and broadcast on YouTube. All these are accessible to you, too, through a single, free sign-up at

accounts.google.com/signup

Once you have your free Google Account, sign-up also as a Local Guide on Google’s Maps site here https://maps.google.com/localguides/ to help you plan and save walking routes for your travel writing projects. We do.

With your Google Account you can quickly create a free website with Google Sites. 

Finally, please take a look at our eBooks for travel writers and tourism graduates on the Google Play Book Store. Especially interesting for 2022 is Google’s launch of an audio-book creator that converts your published eBooks into a separate spoken version. Please take a look at the methods book converted into spoken voice here





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