by Andrew Hempstead | Aug 9, 2014 | Blog, Europe, Travel with children
For the last few years I’ve been writing and updating a travel book in the For Dummies series. As the market for books in this series is mostly families, authors are required to write with this demographic in mind. Travelling regularly with a young family myself...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 3, 2014 | Blog, British Columbia, Guidebooks
With an early September 2013 due date for manuscripts, I travelled extensively throughout last year for new editions of my Moon guidebooks to British Columbia, starting with a trip to Vancouver in March and wrapping up with a mid-summer family camping adventure...
by Andrew Hempstead | Jul 30, 2013 | Banff, Blog
One of the joys of travel is the people you meet on the road, but living in Banff affords us the opportunity to meet interesting people who are visiting our town. Which was the case recently when I struck a conversation downtown with a couple from Florida, Hani and...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 12, 2013 | Blog, Canadian Rockies, Guidebooks
Sales of all my Moon books have increased over the last few years, including the Canadian Rockies. I’d like to think it has to do with how much work I put in to ensuring they have the very best information available, but it probably also has to do with the...
by Andrew Hempstead | Apr 28, 2013 | Blog, Canadian Rockies, Coffeetable book
My Canadian Rockies coffeetable book sells a few thousand copies a year and has been reprinted annually since it first hit bookshelves in 2009. This year, instead of a reprint, we decided to redesign the book, and most importantly include a new selection of photos,...
by Andrew Hempstead | Aug 5, 2012 | Alberta, Blog, Guidebooks
The Alberta Handbook, published in 1995, was the first guidebook I authored, and 17 years later my publisher recently advised me that they would not be publishing any further editions. Alberta is booming, it’s Canada’s wealthiest province, and it welcomes...
