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Do you love to travel? Do you have stories you want to tell and wonder how to write and publish them? This panel is for you. Two experienced novelists and travel writers share the challenges and rewards of writing as well as their their experiences in writing and selling their work.

Ann Mah is a food and travel writer and author of a novel, Kitchen Chinese. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, the International Herald Tribune and other publications. From 2003-2007 she lived in Beijing, where she was a staff writer and dining editor for That’s Beijing, an English language entertainment magazine. In 2005, she was awarded a James Beard culinary scholarship to study Italian cuisine in Bologna, Italy. She lives in Paris and is currently at work on a book about French regional cuisine. Learn more about Ann Mah on her blog & website.

Lisa Pasold is a writer and journalist who divides her time between Paris and Toronto. Her third book, Rats of Las Vegas, a novel, has just come out. She has also written for guidebooks such as Fodor's, Time Out, and Michelin and published articles in newspapers and magazines such as The Globe and Mail, The Chicago Tribune, The National Post, Billboard Magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle. Learn more about Lisa Pasold on her blog & website.

The discussion will be moderated by Clydette de Groot. She is a clinical psychologist and spent 27 years in graduate medical education as a director of behavioral sciences in family medicine residency training programs affiliated with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In addition to a private practice she had an extensive corporate consulting business working internationally with health care organizations and Fortune 500 companies, including Merrill Lynch, Union Carbide, Hewlett-Packard, and Pfizer. She now lives in Paris where she writes, consults, co-chairs a foundation and helps coordinate the American Library’s memoir reading group.