Tom Vater

Am currently on the road in Cambodia to write a brand new guide to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat.
Great to be on the road in 2012.
The book is due out in the autumn…

January 8th, 2012 | Tags: Author, Avalon Publishing, Cambodia, Moon Guide, Research, Tom Vater, travel writer | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment

Many thanks to all those who could attend my talk ´From Rough Guides to Sacred Skin`at the very first Bangkok Literary Festival at the Nelson Hays Library.
I really enjoyed talking about the life of a freelance writer in a quickly changing and often brutally competitive and partially collapsing  media landscape, trying to explain what it [...]

May 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Author, Bangkok, Dan White, Daniel Cooper, From Rough Guides to Sacred Skin, Literary Fesitval, Michael LaPalme, Nelson Hays Library, Sacred Skin, speaker, Thailand, Tom Vater, travel writer, writer ä | Category: Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I will be giving a talk at the Nelson Hays Library on Surawong Road in Bangkok, as part of the first Bangkok Literary Festival on May 22nd, 2011.
From Rough Guides to Sacred Tattoos - The changing career of a travel writer in Southeast Asia will focus on how my job has changed over the past [...]

May 20th, 2011 | Tags: Asia, Author, author Tom Vater, Bangkok, Bangkok Literary Festival, Chris Baker, Chris Moore, freelance writer, Nelson Hayes Library, Nic Dunlop, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Philip Cornwell Smith, Sacred Skin, Stephen Leather, Thailand, Thailand´s Spirit Tattoos, Tom Vater, travel writer, travel writing, Travel writing Asia, writer, www.sacredskinthailand.com | Category: Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

The website Tripbase offer information for would-be travel writers, on the whole very sensible and useful for prospective scribes.
The introduction -The harsh realities laid bare- is both sobering and spot-on: Travel writing is a tough and competitive business, a trade for which one needs to have plenty of persistence and low financial [...]

January 5th, 2011 | Tags: authorship, feature article, guide book, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Luke Duggleby, Peter Fleming, Rolf Potts, Tom Vater, travel, travel writer, travel writing, travel writing advice, tripbase, writing as career | Category: Writer´s Corner | Comments (1)

My new guide to the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia is published on the 4th of January 2011, by Germany`s largest independent travel publisher Reise Know How.
The book contains almost a hundred color images by photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, as well as maps of all the temples, a fold-out plan of the Angkor Archaeological Park and [...]

January 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Archaelogical Park, Angkor Ruinen, Angkor Thom, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Autor, Cambodia, City Trip, guide book, Kambodscha, Khmer, Reise-Know-How, Reiseführer, Scott Nicholson, Siem Reap, Tom Vater, travel writer, writer | Category: Cambodia, Germany | Leave a comment

This city pulsates.
We cruise into town from the airport, Ahmed at the wheel of an old beaten up Peugeot. The traffic is a crazy as anything anywhere, fast, furious and jerky, a sea of cars, old and new, antique and flash, barely functional and elegant, weaving along three aside on a two lane road. Cars [...]

September 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Africa´s largest city, Cairo, Cairo 2010, Cairo portrait, Cairo travelogue, City of the Dead, city portrait, Egypt, Heliopolis, North Africa, The Baron’s Palace, Tom Vater, travel, travel writer | Category: Egypt | Leave a comment

Every month, Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding, interviews a fellow travel writer about the nuts and bolts of our trade.
The extensive Q&As are published on his website. This month, it’s my turn.
Read the full interview here!

July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Asia, Interview, journalism, Q&A, Rolf Potts, Tom Vater, travel writer, travel writing, Vagabonding, writer | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I have opened an author page on Amazon (Author Central) which will keep Amazon surfers abreast of my activities.

Not all of my titles are currently featured there, but readers will find a page with info on publications and a new blog , as well as other news from my literary twilight zone.

March 5th, 2010 | Tags: Amazon Author Central, Amazon Books, books, information, Tom Vater, travel writer, writer | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Bestselling travel writer Paul Theroux was in Bangkok this week to deliver the key note speech for the 2009 Southeast Asian Writers Award at a royally attended gala dinner.
On Saturday, October 11th, I bumped into Mr. Theroux in Kinokunya at Siam Paragon, one of the city’s larger book stores. Mr. Theroux was there to sign [...]

October 11th, 2009 | Tags: Paul Theroux, Paul Theroux on Bangkok, The Great Railway Bazar, Tom Vater, travel writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment