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Post» Make The Most Of Magazines You’ve Broken Into

Posted: May 18, 2020 Roy Stevenson

Dating from 2011, I had a productive relationship with Lost Treasure magazine—22 published travel articles. A few were cover stories. I plied this magazine with pitches, meeting with a 100% acceptance rate. Lost Treasure focused […]

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Post» Don’t Let Feedback On Your Writing Sting Your Ego

Posted: April 20, 2020 Roy Stevenson

During my first few years of freelance writing, several magazine editors sent my manuscripts back to me, requesting rewrites. They liked my story ideas but wanted the articles rewritten, more detailed, or presented from a […]

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Post» How Assumptions Erode Your Travel Writing Success

Posted: August 20, 2018 Roy Stevenson

Over the past several years of working with novice travel writers, I’ve noticed they tend to make a lot of incorrect assumptions about how things work in freelance writing. These assumptions cost them assignments with […]

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Post» A Clash of Titans: Digital Versus Print Travel Media

Updated: Aug 19th, 2018Posted: January 22, 2018 Roy Stevenson

As a travel writer for print media, I’m often asked by other freelancers how digital media has affected the print travel magazine business. That’s a fair question. DEFINITIONS Print travel media consists primarily of travel […]

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Post» 3 Questions Most Travel Editors Want Answered in Your Pitch

Posted: March 14, 2016 Tim Leffel

Most editors are short on time and even shorter on patience when it comes to poorly written pitches. From copy-and-paste emails with the wrong name to queries riddled with spelling errors, you’d be surprised at […]

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Post» How a Travel Bloggers Network Can Fuel Your Blog’s Success

Posted: February 2, 2015 Sharon Mendelaoui

I typed in “Travel Blog Conference” into the Google search box and my life changed forever. I know this sounds a bit dramatic, and at the time I didn’t know that search was going to […]

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Post» 7 Warning Signs You’re Sabotaging Your Travel Writing

Posted: June 16, 2014 Amandah Blackwell

Thanks to the internet, your travel writing is available for everyone to read. And for new writers, this can be scary. After all, these days everyone’s a critic, and you may not want to be […]

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Post» Getting The Biggest Bang For Your Traveling Buck

Posted: March 19, 2012 Jennifer Neves

For some reason, most people believe (falsely) that they need loads of cash, and a year long sabbatical to write a travel book. Don’t get me wrong, having loads of cash is never a bad […]

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Post» Changing Priorities: A Year-End Reflection

Posted: December 26, 2011 Trisha Miller

Last year at about this time I wrote a blog post about… …how I spend the last week of every year (as I have for many years) in quiet reflection on what I’ve accomplished during […]

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Post» Got a Pet Peeve? Most Bloggers Do – Here’s 5 For You

Posted: July 18, 2011 Billie Frank

Since launching our blog Santa Fe Travelers in December 2010, it’s become a vital part of my life. While I love blogging, there are some inherent things about writing for the web that irk me. […]

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