I take this week's chance to announce the release of the second issue of Wicked World , a digital magazine project that dares to be different. Unrestricted by commercial considerations, it remains free to challenge, question, and tell the truth about the business of international travel. We’re not here to sell expensive guided tours, round-the-world...

In the past few months, I have complained several times about the current status of travel writing and how it does not satisfy my needs. In this sense, it would have been too easy to just sit there and complain without actually doing something about it. And that's exactly what I did by joining forces...

Burmese Light - Impressions of the Golden Land by Hans Kemp and Tom Vater Visionary World, 2013 ( buy on Amazon ) “Impressions of the Golden Land” is quite an apt subtitle for Burmese Light as this book literally brings to the table (a coffee-table, to be precise) two kinds of impressions. The visual impressions...

Picture credit: Hans Kemp/Burmese Light Visionary World from Hong Kong is about to release "Burmese Light" , a pictorial travel book assembled by photographer Hans Kemp and travel writer Tom Vater . The project is an attempt to capture the current changing situation of Myanmar, a country that, despite its troubled past, is making waves...

I recently got word that a new independent publisher is trying to kick the corporate media world’s bum by releasing hard hitting, pulpy noirs with Asian settings. I am talking about Crime Wave Press based in Hong Kong and brainchild of travel and Asian focused writer Tom Vater . The first two books are his...