Letter to Friends and Family

You deserve to be recoginized for your work in V!VA List Latin America, but how is that ever going to happen if no one knows about it? By sending an email out to your friends and family you will be able to let them know what you have been up to and help spread interest for the book. Talk about a win-win situation!

The following is a sample letter, feel free to modify it to your own preference. Also remember that you are welcome to write your own letter!

Dear Friends, Family and Colleagues:

I would like to tell you a bit about a book coming out that features my (WRITING OR PHOTOGRAPHY): V!VA List Latin America: 333 Places and Experiences That People Love. What sets this book apart from other travel compilations is that it was a completely web-based community effort. Via the V!VA Web site me, and the other contributors, submitted our stories and photos. From these contributions the V!VA team complied the best pieces, and thus the book was created.

The contributors of the book vary greatly. They include an adventurous grandmother, a high school teacher, and a deejay, besides professional writers who are featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Rough Guides. Day jobs and writing credentials aside, all of the contributors share one thing: a profound passion for travel.

Through the book they share with you this passion, by telling their first-hand accounts of things that can’t be found in glossy travel brochures. You’ll shop in the fish markets of coastal Chile, hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and live with a Cuban family. You’ll dance tango in Argentina and sleep in the same room where Simón Bolívar once did nearly two hundred years ago. You will swim with sea lions, visit an underground salt mine carved into a cathedral and watch a game at Brazil’s most famous soccer stadium.

Our hope for the book is to share with the world our love for Latin America, and hopefully inspire others to share in the adventure and create their own special memories of Latin America.

If you would like to learn more about the book, you can visit its Web site at www.vivatravelguides.com/viva-list/. If you are interested in ordering a copy of the V!VA List Latin America you can do so either on Amazon.com or through the company’s website at www.vivatravelguides.com. Volume copies may be purchased at orders@ipgbook.com or by calling (800) 888-IPG1 (4741).