Are you using Facebook and Twitter to promote your self as a travel writer?
Every so often I get an email from someone who asks me why I haven’t responded to their Facebook friend request, or why I haven’t followed them on Twitter……
…most of the time the reason is that they’ve — perhaps unknowingly — put [...]

With the U.S. State Department issuing an alert on Sunday “urging Americans traveling to Europe to be vigilant about possible terrorist attacks,” I am wondering how many of the editors I know are canceling assignments, “holding stories” and in general, choosing NOT to write about Britain, France and Germany until this storm passes.
When is this [...]

Years ago, I thought of writing a book called, “I left Paradise a Day Early” on the many hardships travel writers have to endure while on the road.
I “shelved” the idea back then because a colleague/friend said to me, “Susan, normal people won’t get this.”
Of course, how can staying in a pristine villa at [...]

As writers we are all very aware of what goes on in the publishing industry.
So no doubt you’ve seen or heard of the large and ubiquitous national ad campaign, announced in April by a joint venture between five giants of the publishing industry (Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, Meredith Corporation, Time Inc., and Wenner Media) titled [...]

Hosted Press Trips – Are you in favor or not?
This topic has been tossed around for years with stands pro and con.
Discussions generally run to extremes and can get quite heated.
In the past, most salaried journalists were not allowed to participate in hosted trips.
The publishers felt it clouded their reporting. Instead, the [...]

A question arose recently among my travel blogging friends:
“How can we make travel blogging bigger than travel blogging“.
Many people follow sports weekly, but follow travel only when they are planning a trip.
For me this raised the question of “why do people travel?”
 
As a survey that came out recently told us:

For many people [...]

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