Please
note: I've already been contacting many overlanders
with promising material on their websites, but even
if you respond to my request I can't guarantee I'll
use it in the Overlanders Handbook.
It has to be not too similar to something I may already
have, relevant and up to a certain standard. If you're
not sure please ask (email at the bottom).
Provisional Contents
Fill
out an online trip report
Your web report can be recent or years 
ago
but I prefer genuine overland trips either RTW or in
Africa, Asia, outback Australia or Latin America, not
touring around Europe, etc. A global range of the better
reports will feature in the book (example left) and
earn you a contrib's credit and a free copy on publication.
Click here and
then click on 
.
Deadline:
none
Text
contributions
Boxed asides and anecdotes as featured in my other
books are welcome, illustrating an aspect of the subject
that does not fit into the body text. Once I know what
you've done I may ask you to write about a certain
subject, most probably it will be about an area (a
nice good example here).
As a guide the best paid contributor ever earned around €500
by submitting various stories and pictures for my recent
AMH. View the provisional Contents
page.
Deadline:
End of October 2007
Submit
a 2-3000 word Travellers Tale
Travellers Tales give an impression of life on the
road but need not be simple travel narratives (though
these are most common); you might like to write in
themes; bush mechanics you met, food you ate - or just
(part of) your adventure - usually better than the
whole trip start to end. Remember it may have been
your trip of a lifetime but to others it may well come
across as dull unless you have something original
to say or an original and humourous way
of saying it. Unusual yarns are also
welcome: trans-Amazon in a Transit van as opposed to
trans Africa by Land Rover.
Please do not send in- or point me towards 57,536
words of blog and propose I 'use the good bits'.
Sorry, you must do that for me. Contributions substantially
over 3000 words won't be read. I will edit as necessary
and get your approval. We will organise an illustration
to go with some vivid aspect of your yarn (see above
picture) so photos are not needed for travellers
tales.
Deadline:
End of October 2007
Colour
photo section
Like Sahara and AMH, the Overlanders
Handbook will have a number of colour
spreads with pictures from half a page to a couple
of double-pagers (should we get good enough images).
Image requirements are similar to the cover, relating
to some aspect of overlanding. However good, a general
landscape shot with no relation to overlanding won't
work, nor in most cases will subjects smiling at the
camera.. Again, please don't point me to your unedited
web photo archive but please do me a favour and collect
what you think are you best shots onto one web page
or into a small email. Transparencies
or anything digital shot above 5mp will work - sorry,
can't use prints.
We're also looking for a brilliant
cover shot (the
above image is only a dummy) of a vehicle shot in
portrait format at high quality.
Deadline:
End of November 2007
Many
thanks to all contributors.
replace
the 'X' in the email address with an '@'
