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Wade Shepard

  • Director, Real Life Cinema
New York
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Author of Ghost Cities of China. Documentary filmmaker at Real Life Cinema. Journalist. Bylines: The Guardian, Forbes, etc. Traveling since 1999, 90 countries.

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I am the author of Ghost Cities of China (Zed Books), and I'm currently working on a book about the New Silk Road. I am a regular contributor to the South China Morning Post, and my stories have appeared in Thompson-Reuters, CityMetric, the New Inquiry, Wanderlust Magazine, and many other top publications.

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A Journey Into The Heart Of The New Silk Road

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By Wade Shepard
| Medium
“Five years ago there was nothing here,” Hamad Said Al Rawahi told me as he drove fast along the freshly paved highway through the desert. He had just picked me up from the side of the road in his shiny black Mercedes. I was hitchhiking — the only form of “public” transport out here. His use of the word “nothing” to describe the landscape that we were speeding through on the brand new, albeit empty, highway almost defied hyperbole.
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How To Actually Make Money Writing A Book

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By Wade Shepard
| Medium
When my first book came out on March 25th of 2015 I planned to take a big part of the distribution and sales duty on my shoulders, grind it out, and make money. Instead, I got discouraged and gave up, relying on other people to sell my book, and leaving royalties as my only source of revenue from the project. I’m going to be clear here: unless you sell hundreds of thousands of copies, authors don’t make shit off of royalties.
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How Kazakhstan Is Becoming The Next Frontier For World-Class Wine

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By Wade Shepard
| Substack
After traveling through the great wine producing regions of Europe, Zeinulla Kakimzhanov had an idea: why not revive wine culture in Kazakhstan? Knowing that his country once had a great wine tradition, he formed a cooperative, pursued investors, and began cultivating 70 hectares of forgotten vineyards near the village of Karakemer, in the Assa Valley just outside of Almaty, Kazakhstan's most dynamic and populated city.
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