Bruce Northam "tips his cap to my two favorite hardcore female travel writers" (Carla King & Lisa Alpine) in the
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Pray Love and Be Cautious! It's gone viral! Versions of the same story are in The Improper, ExpatDailyNews, Camels & Chocolate and TripFilms,Lisa Alpine is the author of Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts and co-author of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook and workshop series by Good to Go Media, and a book development consultant. She is the founding publisher of Dancing Words Press and the Global Getaways columnist for Examiner.com. She is also an acclaimed teacher and coach, and leads workshops on travel writing and dance as a healing art form.
She is a member of the California Writers Club, Bay Area Travel Writers, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, Small Publishers Association of North America, Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association, and the Wild Writing Women.
Extended Bio
The day she turned eighteen, Lisa Alpine moved to Paris. She waitressed in Switzerland and picked olives in Greece, paddled the Amazon River, and created Dream Weaver Imports, a South American import company with two retail stores and a wholesale business in San Francisco.
In 1983, she gave birth to Galen Marc Alpine. That same year, she founded and published The Fax newspaper in Marin County, California. She then went on to be the Pacific Sun’s Getaway columnist for more than a decade. During this period she also freelanced for Frommers’ America on Wheels, Common Ground, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Mothering Magazine, Paddler Magazine, Physicians’ Travel & Meeting Guide, Specialty Travel Index, and many other publications.
With her writing group, the Wild Writing Women, she co-authored Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel published by Globe Pequot Press.
She is the Global Getaways columnist in Examiner.com and teaches travel writing at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and Berkeley. For the last two decades, she has also led a plethora of writing and dance workshops in Hawai’i, New Mexico, Italy, Mexico, and France.
Lisa recently started Good to Go Media with Carla King, a venture that helps authors get their books out of their head and into the marketplace. They offer workshops and co-authored the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook: Ten Steps to Self-Publishing Success, which they, of course, self-published. Watch a video about their new Boot Camp program.
She is currently working on several new titles to be published by her imprint, Dancing Words Press. Upcoming titles include an embellished historical nonfiction, Wild Blood: Horse Thieves and Whores, about her renegade birth parents and their Gold Rush roots. On a completely different track, Journey Into Movement: Dancing Lessons From God, will be a book about the body-wisdom she has gleaned from twenty years of teaching dance as an ecstatic and healing art form.
Lisa volunteers for Earth Island Institute and SaveJapanDolphins.org and works directly with Ric O'Barry's (activist in The Cove) team to stop the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. She was recently interviewed on Smart Green Travel about swimming with wild dolphins. Listen here
When not wrestling with words, exploring the ecstatic realms of dance, swimming with sea creatures, or waiting for a flight, Lisa is planting fruit trees in her garden in Mill Valley, California, or orchids in her jungle hideaway on the Big Island. Her gardens of vivid flowers and abundant fruit remind her that the future is always ripe with possibilities.
In 1983, she gave birth to Galen Marc Alpine. That same year, she founded and published The Fax newspaper in Marin County, California. She then went on to be the Pacific Sun’s Getaway columnist for more than a decade. During this period she also freelanced for Frommers’ America on Wheels, Common Ground, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Mothering Magazine, Paddler Magazine, Physicians’ Travel & Meeting Guide, Specialty Travel Index, and many other publications.
With her writing group, the Wild Writing Women, she co-authored Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel published by Globe Pequot Press.
She is the Global Getaways columnist in Examiner.com and teaches travel writing at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and Berkeley. For the last two decades, she has also led a plethora of writing and dance workshops in Hawai’i, New Mexico, Italy, Mexico, and France.
Lisa recently started Good to Go Media with Carla King, a venture that helps authors get their books out of their head and into the marketplace. They offer workshops and co-authored the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook: Ten Steps to Self-Publishing Success, which they, of course, self-published. Watch a video about their new Boot Camp program.She is currently working on several new titles to be published by her imprint, Dancing Words Press. Upcoming titles include an embellished historical nonfiction, Wild Blood: Horse Thieves and Whores, about her renegade birth parents and their Gold Rush roots. On a completely different track, Journey Into Movement: Dancing Lessons From God, will be a book about the body-wisdom she has gleaned from twenty years of teaching dance as an ecstatic and healing art form.
Lisa volunteers for Earth Island Institute and SaveJapanDolphins.org and works directly with Ric O'Barry's (activist in The Cove) team to stop the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. She was recently interviewed on Smart Green Travel about swimming with wild dolphins. Listen here
When not wrestling with words, exploring the ecstatic realms of dance, swimming with sea creatures, or waiting for a flight, Lisa is planting fruit trees in her garden in Mill Valley, California, or orchids in her jungle hideaway on the Big Island. Her gardens of vivid flowers and abundant fruit remind her that the future is always ripe with possibilities.