Kim Grant is a very well established travel writer, Cape Cod & Islands travel authority, Hawai'i travel authority, pro photographer, Acquisitions Editor, publisher, and T’ai Chi Chih teacher.

Travel Writing & Guidebooks
Kim has been writing about travel since the day after she graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1984.

Kim currently writes these guidebooks (available in bookstores):
- Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket: An Explorer's Guide (1st through 7th editions; sole author)
- Hawai'i: An Explorer's Guide (1st edition; sole author)
- Lonely Planet New England (1st – 4th editions; coordinating author)
- Lonely Planet Road Trip New England (1st edition; sole author)
- Lonely Planet Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque (2nd edition; sole author)
- Lonely Planet Southwest (4th edition; coordinating author)
- Lonely Planet Florida (4th edition; coordinating author)

Look for this forthcoming project from Chronicle Books in Fall 2008:
- Backroads of New England (sole photographer & co-author)

Since the mid-1990s Kim has also written:
- Lonely Planet Hawai'i (7th edition; coordinating author)
- Lonely Planet Boston (1st & 2nd editions; sole author)
- Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys (3rd edition; sole author)
- Lonely Planet USA (2nd & 4th editions)
- Best Places to Stay in New England (1st – 8th editions)
- Best Places to Stay in Hawai'i (5th & 6th editions)

As for web work, Kim serves the City Expert for www.homeandabroad.com on the six major Hawaiian islands, Cape Cod, and Boston; is a Hawai'i lodging specialist for www.away.com; writes about luxury destinations for www.orbitz.com; was an early member of www.guidebookwriters.com; and contributed to www.flyguides.com.

As for TV and radio, Kim is about to embark on a 20-city radio tour to promote the Great Destinations series for Countryman Press (for whom she serves as an Acquisitions Editor). She also recently appeared on Comcast TV's Newsmakers to discuss autumnal outings in New England; on CNN Headline News to discuss fall foliage travel in New England; and on the Valerie D'Elia Travel Show (syndicated but based in NYC) to discuss the merits of travelling in Massachusetts.

From 1999-2007 she wrote Yankee magazine's Editor's Picks for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. During the late 1990s, she appeared on WCVB-TV’s Chronicle as a Boston expert; wrote for National Geographic Traveler and Yankee magazines; and served as an editor for Boston Magazine’s annual New England Travel.

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, she contributed to guides published by Frommer's (New England; Canada; Mexico, Belize & Guatemala), Fodor's (Boston; New England; Cape Cod; Access USA), Insight (New England & Boston), Berlitz, and Rodale.

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Hawaii: An Explorer’s Guide
Booksellers around the country highly regard the Explorer's Guides series and Kim writes the one to Hawaii -- a comprehensive, opinionated, all-purpose travel guide. ......

The 1st edition is currently in bookstores.

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Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket: An Explorer’s Guide
Kim writes this region’s most comprehensive, opinionated, all-purpose travel guide. She helps travelers cut through piles of non-discriminating clutter to find great lodging, dining, and attractions to suit every taste and budget. She has personally visited every place in this guide — and many more that haven't made it into this guide. So she can provide reasoned assessments of how to spend your hard-earned dollars and precious vacation time.

Because Kim alone has researched and written this guide since 1994, when she says a place is "the Cape’s best clam shack," it means something. Many other guidebooks dispatch teams of researchers, so when they say “This is the Cape’s best clam shack,” what they really mean is, “This is the best clam shack in the territory I was assigned for this edition.” Furthermore, because Kim has written every edition since its inception, readers will benefit from insights gained over many, many years.

The 7th edition is currently in bookstores.

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Kim Grant Photography
Kim’s travel images have appeared in:

Kim’s clients include:

Kim also teaches photography and has been a guest lecturer on travel photography at the SATW’s Annual Guidebook Institute.

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Acquisitions Editor
As a longtime Explorer's Guide author for The Countryman Press (a division of WW Norton), Kim is well-suited to be their Acquisitions Editor. She actively solicits and welcomes submissions appropriate to their list of publications. Please consult Countryman's web site for guidelines and contact Kim with your proposal.

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Bindu Press
Kim founded Bindu Press in 2001 as a means to more widely distribute her fine art black and white photography. Lushly printed blank note cards are available through retail stores and the Bindu Press web site. The Press is also a book packager for artists and other photographers.

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Good Karma Publishing
Kim runs Good Karma Publishing (the venture connected with T’ai Chi Chih) which produces, disseminates, and distributes materials by Justin Stone about T'ai Chi Chih to students and teachers worldwide.

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T’ai Chi Chih
Kim has been practicing T’ai Chi Chih, a moving meditation, since 1992 and teaching since 1999. She credits the practice with many extraordinary benefits, chief among them — an increase in creativity and intuition. (And productivity!!)

Kim also runs the publishing venture relating to T'ai Chi Chih, Good Karma Publishing.

And she edits The Vital Force, a 24-page quarterly journal dedicated to T'ai Chi Chih teachers and students worldwide.

She also photographed Justin Stone’s photo-text workbook T’ai Chi Chih, Joy Thru Movement, Stone's art book Tentatively Forever, and Carmen Brocklehurst’s VHS & DVD covers.

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