WrittenRoad.com may seem like a simple online journal at first glance. In actuality, it is a virtual café with an international readership that has been growing since 2002. Through a lively daily blog, award-winning travel writer and editor Jen Leo began sharing her experiences in the publishing industry and providing a daily scoop on travel writing as she made her way as an editor, writer, and traveling socialite. The site is now run by a slew of talented, budding travel writers and editors and offers a unique and refreshingly honest view into the life of emerging careers with day-by-day accounts of the process of changing from an unknown to an accomplished professional. Along the way, there are practical discussions of market leads, author events, marketing tactics, travel books, a writer’s philosophical quandaries, and perhaps most importantly, a few inspirational triumphs. Readers most enjoy news of notable writers, new travel books worth reading, submission guidelines, and the individual support they receive.