Lara Dunston
Professional travel writer
Perpetual globetrotter, travel writer, 70 countries, 50 books, stories for world’s best publishers, living out of suitcase since '06 http://cooltravelguide.com/
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Busy days. Worked on stories/guides to Siem Reap, Istanbul, Marrakech (2), Dubai (3) & Melbourne this week! Doesn't leave much time to tweet
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@niltiac I haven't had an Aussie bank account since 1998. When we left we really left. Nothing here except a storage unit - and family :)
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So tired of chasing magazine publishers for money. Why can they not pay when they say they will? Worse bit about freelancing. Grrr...
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@niltiac ...got fed up being offered commissions, discussing them, then discovering they pay by posting US cheques. I ask about $ first now.
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@niltiac Sure. If I get hold of it again, I'll be holding on to it! Last one I deleted; didn't think I'd work for US publication again...
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@niltiac no worries. I should've kept that one when I had it :(
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@niltiac sounds like really old one. Doesn't have fields that can be digitally filled out? That's the one I'm after. No printer access now.
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@FarWriter ah, of course. I may have to contact finance peeps at another publishing house to get one, crazily enough.
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@FarWriter do you have one on file? I never saved them, as editors would just email me new ones. A mistake in hindsight.
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@FarWriter ...for old digital PDF that used to allow sig. to be copied. Publishers used to email me PDFs. (Don't have access to a printer.)
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@FarWriter yes, but not that one - online one no longer allows signatures to be copied into it, for security reasons apparently. Looking...
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Any non-US writers have digital W8-BEN they can email me? ie one that can be completed & emailed (incl copy sig.), no need to print. Thanks!
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(Cont...) For yrs I've been told submitting once a yr is enough. Now I have pub. insisting on it but can't provide the digital form (cont..)
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Non-US #writers who work for US publishers: does W8-BEN form now have to be submitted to *every* publisher? Has something changed? (Cont...)
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Heartbreaking: RT @AntDeRosa
RT @DanWhitcomb : Pictures of the blasts in #Damascus by Reuters photographers http://t.co/YVYdbu5s #Syria
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#Dubai tweeps - the Zagat Dubai survey has gone up for the new guide. Get voting! http://t.co/gmUblSHm
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I'll take one RT @jools_octavius
Thinking of getting t shirt printed with the slogan 'So do you work for free? Didn't think so, me neither!'
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Tweeps, if you haven't checked out my re-launched Cool Travel Guide (with a cool new design), do come take a look: http://t.co/7wGW80Dc
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5 reasons to love Italy http://t.co/90tqjErK
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Life of a Travel Writer: Italy and the angels who make life easier than it's meant to be http://t.co/zg58FvRH
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Liquorice, one more reason to visit Calabria http://t.co/xNY1Ivbq
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Liquorice: one more reason to visit Calabria http://t.co/dafw82Eo
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10 reasons to travel to Calabria: part 2 http://t.co/T2y1lD2i
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Busy. The strangeness of our jobs: in Perth, Australia in autumn. Writing about Melbourne, Dubai, Marrakech, Limassol, and Europe in summer.
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10 reasons to travel to Calabria, part 1 http://t.co/5gdY0VbR
