Articles by JoAnna Haugen

About JoAnna Haugen

JoAnna Haugen is a creativity connoisseur, idea inventor and freelance writer with a professional background in copywriting. A former Peace Corps volunteer and avid world traveler, she is the community news editor for WorldView, the publication for the National Peace Corps Association, and managing editor for Journey Beyond Travel, an online guide about travel in Morocco. JoAnna’s writing has appeared in more than 40 print and online publications including Caribbean Travel & Life, American Way, WestJet’s up!, Vegas Magazine, Pathfinders Travel, TravelSmart, Diamond Resorts International Magazine and Las Vegas Review-Journal. She also writes the popular travel blog, Kaleidoscopic Wandering.

When she’s not on the road or writing about travel, JoAnna also works as a ghost writer, blogger, copywriter and editor for clients and projects spanning a variety of genres. Learn more about her professional work and follow her on Twitter for updates on her latest travels.

Post» How To Work With Your Local Tourism Board

Posted: September 30, 2013 JoAnna Haugen

Some travel writers make the mistake of thinking they need to travel to far-flung destinations many time zones away…. … when, in actuality, there are interesting travel-related stories waiting to be written about their own […]

Post» Book Review: Travel Writer’s Guide

Updated: Feb 14^th, 2012Posted: February 13, 2012 JoAnna Haugen

The travel writing journey is different for everyone,… … and how you get where you’re going is often a matter of connections, good ideas, strong writing skills and a little bit of luck. I’ve never […]

Post» A Positive Lesson in Rejection

Posted: March 28, 2011 JoAnna Haugen

Rejection is a natural part of being a writer. Even those writers and authors who have gone on to achieve international success were, at one point or another, rejected. One of the differences between […]

Post» Get Paid to Write!

Posted: October 11, 2010 JoAnna Haugen

If you want to know the secrets of travel writing success, then bypass Thomas A Williams’ Get Paid to Write! and pick up something else. But if your goal is to learn the art of […]

Post» When Good Press Trips Go Bad

Posted: August 6, 2010 JoAnna Haugen

When we go on press trips, we hope that we’ll have fun, eat the local food, meet interesting people and pick up a story or two along the way that will knock the socks […]

Post» The Travel Writer’s Handbook

Posted: March 31, 2010 JoAnna Haugen

Reviews for The Travel Writer’s Handbook (Subtitled: How to Write – and Sell – Your Own Travel Experiences) by Louise Purwin Zobel and Jacqueline Harmon Butler call it “brilliant and highly informative … everything I […]

Post» Travel Writing: See the World. Sell the Story.

Updated: Mar 31^st, 2010Posted: February 17, 2010 JoAnna Haugen

Louisa Watson Peat O’Neil is no stranger to the travel writing industry. She is a former staff writer for The Washington Post and has had her travel writing published in several esteemed national and international […]