Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground...
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet you'd best teach it to dance.
