Trips to Take in the U.S. for $1,000 or Less
With our Leading Tours for Fun and Profit Program, we include a guide called Weird and Wacky Hotels of the World. Today, take a look at these weird and wacky places to go in and around the U.S. for $1,000 or less. Click here to read more.
Steenie Harvey’s Top Picks: Trips to Take for $1,000 or Less
Freelance travel writer Steenie Harvey has been all around the world. So I asked her where she’d want to go on a limited budget and she sent me the below four destinations you can explore for $1,000 or less…
Eat It So Your Readers Don’t Have To
In Chicago, Steenie told a funny story about some of the different foods she’s tried around the world. It makes for good cocktail conversation, that’s for sure. But these things have also earned her a nice check. “Eat it so your readers don’t have to,” she said. “And editors will pay you for it.” See her article below about travel stories based on odd foods and torturous pilgrimages…
Get Paid to Travel: $3,000 for Travel Stories
Reader Roy Stevenson attended our Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop back in 2007 and, since then, has been published over 550 times across a wide-range of publications. Below is his advice for turning a typical $140 travel assignment into $3,000. Click here to read more...
Three Travel Writing Myths Debunked
International Living editor Jen Stevens is the source of all of the smiling this morning in Chicago at the Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop. The reason is that she just revealed the truth about whether or not the average person with no writing experience can really make it as a travel writer. Read more here...
In Russia, Sit on Your Luggage… and Other Strange Travel Superstitions
Do you know any other strange travel superstitions? See what other people had to say...
Chicago Tribune Travel Editor Ross Werland on Pitching Travel Stories to Newspapers
The editorial staff at large newspapers is shrinking (and has been for years). What does this mean for you as a travel writer? Click here to read an interview with travel editor Ross Werland at the Chicago Tribune, and listen to his advice on how to get started.
Trip Planning for Travel Writers: How to Decide Where to Go and What to Write About
It's not unheard-of to get 100 articles published in seven months. Roy Stevenson (who you’ve been hearing from this week) is the perfect model of the success you can have when you write about subjects you know well and enjoy. Today, I asked him how, specifically, he plans his trips and the articles he gets from them. You'll find his article here...
Mac vs PC for Photographers and Writers
I reviewed both Mac and PCs some time last year and basically concluded that if you spend as much money on a PC as you do on a Mac, you’ll find them on equal playing ground – each having its own set of pros and cons. Do I feel different now a year later? Read more and find out...
How to Sell Travel Articles: Step Four
Bonnie Caton provides insight into the fourth step for getting your travel writing articles published: sending your article to an editor. Following the editor's specifications will help your article get noticed. Click here to find out more.
How to Sell Travel Articles: Step Three
Bonnie Caton reveals the third step to selling your travel article: abiding by the writer's guidelines. Reading a publication’s Writer’s Guidelines -- and then following those guidelines exactly -- will quickly push you ahead of the competition. Click to read more ...
How to Sell Travel Articles: Step Two
Bonnie Caton, Editorial Director, continues providing advice on travel writing in the Get Started Travel Writing Series. In this article Bonnie provides easy and practical tips to writing articles that can help you sell your articles to magazines and newspapers.
How to Sell Travel Articles: Step One
Bonnie Caton, Editorial Director, writes mostly about how she sells her photographs. But I asked her this week if she could take us back to the beginning and talk about how she sold her first few travel articles. Below is her advice for getting started -- the very first thing you should do if you want to travel and sell your travel stories to magazines and newspapers.
Working with Monsters
Here is an article by contributor Steenie Harvey, a successful travel writer who has been paid to tell her story about everything from a horse fair in Ireland to a movie-themed tour of New Zealand.
Photo Captions Can Help Sell Photographs: Here’s How to Write One
Could a few little words written under photos you send to a magazine editor make or break their sale? Check out freelance photographer Efrain Padró’s advice for writing good photo captions here.
