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Identity - the self-study course-book   I am delighted to announce that our summer school for writers is now available in book-form for self-study. The short course explores your identity as a writer through place-making texts, activities and an online lecture in YouTube. The blended-learning course also gets you started with dialogue journaling on Google Drive so you will need Gmail and a free Google Account to make the most of the teaching materials. The E-Book was originally launched on Google Play Bookstore and is now on Amazon Kindle and also as an Amazon Independent A6 paperback. All of the three formats give you access to the activities online, so you can choose your preferred format from these below Google Play Bookstore Kindle eBook Format Paperback on Amazon Learn on your mobile This course is set at the equivalent of a level 4 course as studied at UK universities. The course assumes a very good knowledge of UK English and will help you to develop your writing ...

E-Book Store If you make training materials and want to release your work as books then here are a few tips from my experience of publishing learning books for travel writers: The Google Books Partner Center, lets you open an account if you have a gmail email address and a UK bank account. You request a book store account, pay in £1 and then you can upload your ebooks in .EPUB format.  https://play.google.com/books/publish/ Convert from WORD to EPUB To convert your WORD.DOCX file into .EPUB format, I suggest the free software that I've used since August 2019, Calibre eBook Maker, free download below: https://calibre-ebook.com/download What Next? When I had built expeience on Google's eBook selling platform, I began to explore Amazon's platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Again, it is worth having a normal buyer's account with Amazon UK so that you know what it's like to buy books online. I then opened a KDP account using this website from Amazon, link below. Amazon...

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 play.google.com

The Google Play Bookstore The Google Play Bookstore is open to anyone with a long-term Google Account. You can buy audio books and e-Books once you have established an account with a card. To publish your own travel writing or text-books, you need sofware for converting wordprocessed documents in .EPUB format. I use Calibre eBook maker. You will also need to register for, and buy a series of ISBNs for your publishing house. Then simply tell your readers about your books, like this  play.google store books by Charlie Mansfield