Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts won the BAIPA 2011 Book Award for Best Women's Adventure Memoir.

Lisa recently taught self-publishing and Poetry in Motion at the Unicorn Writers' Conference held at a castle in Connecticut. Watch the video.

Read about Lisa's dance teaching in the Marin Independent Journal feature Dancer, Heal Thyself

Lisa is featured in Be Inkandescent Magazine's feature Truly Amazing Women Who Are Changing the World which is also being turned into a book and T.V. series. Three of her stories are also featured in their May 2011 magazine.

Lisa is also featured in these recent articles about Eat Pray Love and travel safety for solo women travelers. Read Eat Pray Love and Be Cautious! in the HuffingtonPost,

How Julia Roberts, Liz Gilbert Fail Women in Eat, Pray, Love in The Improper and Travel Tips from Roadworthy Women in TripFilms. Oh, let's not forget ExpatDailyNews and Camels & Chocolate!

View the YouTube video of Lisa Alpine & Carla King discussing their Self-Publishing Boot Camp workshop and workbook.

PODCASTS:

Swimming with Wild Dolphins On Smart Green Travel 960am: You’ll hear Lisa share spectacular play by play details of water dancing with the dolphins in Hawaii along with Mark Palmer of SaveJapanDolphins.org about stopping the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. Listen here

Self-Publishing: Tutorials from the Trenches: This program with Lisa Alpine and Carla King was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on April 6, 2010: Book publishing is undergoing a sea change. Come and participate in our dynamic and interactive three-part series covering all aspects of self-publishing, taught by front-line experts who have done it themselves and succeeded. Moderator is Paula Hendricks and Kevin O'Malley is the producer and Chairman of the Business and Leadership Forum at the Commonwealth Club. Listen here

Misadventuring Lifestyle Podcast with Lisa Alpine: Dance Weaver, Word Weaver, Wild Woman. Listen here

PRINT & BLOG REVIEWS:
The Midwest Book Review says, "Exotic Life is a travel memoir that pulls no punches and offers a blunt, humorous, and fun recount of Alpine's journeys through South America as she tries to encourage people to embrace the randomness and unusual nature of life. Highly recommended, not to be missed." June 2011

Fabulous review of Exotic Life in Rolf Potts' Vagabonding: "Alpine is an inspiration to women travelers everywhere. She fearlessly wanders through one obscure destination after the other, leaving her complete trust in the experience. She answers that timeless question – Can solo women travelers really go there? – by doing just that and carrying away some wildly unique stories..." Read more

Review of Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook by publisher Christy Pinheiro : "This is a useful, well-designed tool for authors who want to self publish. It's the first self-publishing guide I've seen that was designed with a step-by-step theme that encourages author interaction (the author is expected to write in his/her own answers, like "your elevator speech" and "your bio." 8/2/2010 Read complete review

Review of Lisa Alpine & Carla King's presentation on self-publishing at Bay Area Independent Publishers Assoc. June 12, 2010. Read here

Book designer Joel Friedlander blogs on the evolution of his interior design for Exotic Life. Read here

Press Kit Images and Bio:

Lisa Alpine is the author of Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts and co-author of Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel. She is the founding publisher of Dancing Words Press.