Dear Right Way to Travel Reader,

Photographer Rich Wagner here...

This week’s featured publication, below, offers two big pluses for your photographic career. First, it has huge recognition factor, yet it’s an approachable publication, where you have a real shot at getting accepted.

And secondly, down at the bottom, you’ll find the steps to take in making your submission... and those steps can be a working outline for you as you explore other outlets for your work on your own.

Good luck and good shooting!

Rich Wagner
Professional Photographer and Guest Editor, The Right Way to Travel

P.S. We’ll be talking about how to package together your photos with articles to create a stronger photo/story income flow at the Ultimate Money-Making Photo Workshop this March 13-15 in New Orleans. Sign up in the next four days (before midnight on February 2nd) and you'll save $300 before our Early Bird Discount period ends.

January 29, 2009

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Featured Publication: AAA Southern Traveler
Website: http://www.ouraaa.com/traveler/contents_south.html
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SELL PHOTOS AND TALES FROM THE SOUTHERN ROAD
By Bonnie Caton in Arlington, Virginia

Aside from providing automobilists with roadside services, maps, and guidebooks, AAA also publishes 24 regional magazines -- one of which is Southern Traveler. With an emphasis on things to do and see when you’ve got your own set of wheels, it covers events and festivals, local dining, news, travel trends, entertainment, and more.

I chose Southern Traveler as this week’s featured publication because we’ll be going to New Orleans for the Ultimate Money-Making Photo Workshop this March. And with five to six freelance-written stories in each issue, it’s a great magazine to pitch your stories and photos of Louisiana, as well as Arkansas and Mississippi.

The best time to query is now through April. Though the magazine plans editorial one year in advance (and all of 2009 is booked up) it pays on acceptance, rather than publication. So if the editors like your article or photos, you'll be paid when they accept your story, not when it's published a year (or more) from now.

Payment is $300 per article for feature stories, plus another $150 if story is published in AAA Midwest Traveler as well.

Before sending in a story pitch, read a few feature stories to get a feel for the writing style and article topics, here: http://www.ouraaa.com/traveler/archives/features_south.html

Then, you can read the Writer’s Guidelines, here:
http://www.ouraaa.com/traveler/media/south/WritersGuidelines.pdf

If you’re coming with us to New Orleans this March for The Ultimate Money-Making Photo Workshop, you’ll be pleased to know that Southern Traveler also buys photos year-round. You’ll get $75 per small photo used inside the issue, and $300 for cover photos.

PHOTO TIP: Check out the magazine’s editorial calendar to see what articles it’ll publish this year. Then, if you have a few (or you can take some) that match up with one of the stories, send an email introducing yourself as a photographer and attach two or three images, letting the editors know which story and issue you’re submitting them for.

You can see the editorial calendar here:
http://www.ouraaa.com/traveler/media/south/st_edit.pdf

Notice that the magazine will be doing a “tank trip” story on French New Orleans in the November/December issue... so you might keep that theme in mind if you come to the Ultimate Money-Making Photo Workshop in New Orleans this March.

[Ed. Note: Freelance writer, Jen Stevens’ husband Pat sells his photos to magazines alongside Jen’s articles. You can read his article on how to take magazine-quality photos in our e-letter archives, here: http://tinyurl.com/patsphotos

Jen and Pat will be with us at the Ultimate Money-Making Photo Workshop in New Orleans, too, where we’ll talk more about how to make saleable editorial shots.]

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