by Andrew Hempstead | May 3, 2014 | 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 | May 12, 2013 | 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 | Aug 5, 2012 | Alberta, 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...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 16, 2012 | Atlantic Canada, Blog, Guidebooks
Researching new editions of Moon Atlantic Canada and Moon Nova Scotia last summer was a family affair, with two trips to the Atlantic provinces with kids in tow. I doubled up on a solo Newfoundland and Labrador trip last June, researching the Moon guidebook and also...
by Andrew Hempstead | Mar 28, 2012 | Atlantic Canada, Blog, Frommers, Guidebooks
The 1st edition of Frommer’s Newfoundland and Labrador was published in 2004. Frommer’s approached me to write an update, but the assignment ended up as a complete rewrite, and the 2nd edition was published in my name for the 2006 summer season....
by Andrew Hempstead | May 17, 2011 | Blog, British Columbia, Guidebooks
I had a few commissions in 2010, which along with preparing the 40th anniversary edition of the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, kept me busy work-wise. Updates for Moon British Columbia and Moon Vancouver and Victoria were both fairly straightforward. With two children...
