About Carla King
Carla King is the author of the popular realtime Internet dispatches American Borders, China Road, and Indian Sunset. Her writing has been published in Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, Travelers’ Tales anthologies, and In Search of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology. Her book, American Borders, is the first in a series of misadventurous travelogues. Next up is an anthology about motorcycling all over the world. You can also read her live dispatches from the road.Carla is also a writing and publishing coach and consultant. She teaches workshops on self-publishing and creating your own publishing company. See her teaching schedule on the calendar page. Or contact her to arrange a session.
Carla started writing about travel in 1988 while she worked as a technical writer in Lyon, France. In 1993 after penning a mountain-biking guide to the Alpes-Maritimes, she left for a four-month bicycle trip through West Africa. Since then she's published stories about motorcycling, bicycling, kayaking, scuba diving, travel technology, and other misadventures in a variety of print and online magazines, and has been interviewed in many publications as well as on radio and television programs. She hosts an occasional Miss Adventuring podcast.
For an extended interview, check out this piece Urban Moto Magazine's April 2008 issue - click here to download the pdf file.
If you'd like to know more, you can find personal interviews and articles about Carla on the Press page.