Jacqueline began to write about her travels and compiled copious files of stories and data after her first trip to Europe in 1979. In 1996, she decided to investigate the possibilities of becoming a travel writer and enrolled in a weekend travel writing conference. She won the second place writing award and her career was launched.
Ms. Butler received the 2003 Golden Linchetto Prize for the best foreign journalist with published articles about Lucca for her story City Girl on a Small Farm in Tuscany. In 2002 she received another international press award for journalism: I, Leonardo Award; A Few Words About Sicily, for her story The Fire of Mt. Etna.
Jacqueline's writing can be found in numerous newspapers, magazines and ezines, as well as many international publications. She is a contributing editor to the anthology, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, (Globe Pequot Press, April 2002) which won the North American Travel Journalists Association award for best travel book of 2002. A clip from City Girl can be found in Sand in My Bra, (Travelers Tales May 2003) which won the North American Travel Journalists Association award for best travel book of 2003. She is a member of Wild Writing Women who won the 2004-2005 Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Gold Award – the highest award for Internet Publications/Web site, WildWritingWomen.com, with special mention of the magazine title Taking Flight, a gift to first-time travelers with all you need to know to spread your wings and fly! This publication also won North American Travel Journalists Association Best Online Travel Magazine for 2004.
In her memoir, Sono Claudio, she writes about her ten-year, long distance love affair. Facing middle age and afraid her love life was over, she traveled to Italy and was pursued by and fell in love with a much younger man, much to the dismay of her adult children and friends. How does she deal with the problems of age, distance and language? Any one of these factors could be a fatal flaw in a love affair. From Lucca to San Francisco and the hill towns of Tuscany, their romance sizzles with excitement and drama.
She is currently working on another novel, One Last Trip to Paris. This is the story of Julie Taylor, 50-year-old career woman that is diagnosed with inoperable brain aneurysm She is given 6 months to live. She liquidates all her assets, leaves San Francisco to goes and live her final months in Paris, France.
For more information about Jacqueline, visit www.jacquelineharmonbutler.com
Professional organizations:
- Wild Writing Women LLC
- Bay Area Travel Writers
- National Association of Travel Writers of America
- National Association of Women Writers
- Romance Writers of America
