When Franz Wisner’s fiancée left him days before their wedding, he decided to go ahead with the festivities, sans bride.  He then asked his younger brother Kurt to join him on the two-week, pre-paid honeymoon to Costa Rica. The brothers had such a good time exploring and re-bonding they decided to extend the honeymoon…for two years and 53 countries.

The result was Franz’s best-selling memoir, Honeymoon With My Brother. There was one problem. Somehow, Franz came back from the honeymoon single.  He then compounded his mistake by moving to the worst place on the planet be single – Los Angeles.  Franz needed help.

So he grabbed his brother and his backpack and hit the road again to find out How the World Makes Love, traveling to Brazil, Egypt, India, the Czech Republic, Nicaragua, New Zealand, and Botswana with a mission: to glean the planet’s most important love lessons and see if they could rescue him from the ruins of his own love life.  His new book hits bookstores (and the Authors on the Move dinner!) in March, 2009.

Edward Hasbrouck, unlike most travel writers, focuses on investigative journalism, consumer advocacy and “how-to” articles, rather than specific destinations. Hasbrouck is the world's best-known authority on around-the-world travel, and is the author of the acclaimed Practical Nomad series of travel how-to and advice books. His latest book, The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World, provides a global perspective that’s necessary for both first-time trekkers as well as experienced explorers.

Hasbrouck has gone around the world three times himself, once in each of the last three decades. His most recent trip, in 2007-2008, covered more than 80,000 miles over 13 months, visiting 28 countries on 6 continents. Hasbrouck has visited all 50 states of the USA, 8 Canadian provinces, and more than 50 other countries, travelling by foot, bicycle, train, bus, boat, car, taxi, rickshaw, donkey cart, and on more than 50 different airlines.

Long active in peace and human rights organizations, Hasbrouck is an evangelist for travel as a positive force for global change. In addition to his travel books and articles for travel magazines, Hasbrouck has written for a variety of policy journals including Peacework, The Nonviolent Activist and Privacy Journal.

Hasbrouck has been featured in a BBC-TV travel documentary, spoken at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, and been quoted and interviewed as a travel expert by CNN, NPR, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, San Jose Mercury News and many other news organizations.