Freelance Writing

Contrary to the excellent advice given to us last month by Sean
McLachlan, Lonely Planet guidebook writer Thomas Kohnstamm couldn’t
be bothered to travel to one of the countries he wrote about, so he
made it all up.  According to a report on CNN Wire, the travel
guide author claimed that Lonely Planet didn’t pay him enough to
cover the cost of a trip to Columbia, so he wrote it in San
Francisco with the help of his girlfriend - an intern at the
Columbian Consulate. Kohnstamm has written over a dozen books for
Lonely Planet and says he has made up whole sections in many of
them.  Lonely Planet, however, say that all their books are
accurate.

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