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Editorial: Dealing with Boredom? Build a Master Magazine List

But it seems we’re going to be in self-containment for while. Make the most of your time and do small tasks each day to move your travel writing career forward in a positive direction.

One way to do this is to work on your magazine distribution lists. Magazine lists are your master lists of all your potential sales leads - the print media outlets where you can pitch your stories.

The idea behind a distribution list is to assemble a group of similar magazines that will be good targets for your proposed articles in a particular genre.  You create a list once, then use it again and again each time you have a new story idea for that genre.

Magazine distribution lists are invaluable when doing simultaneous submissions, a technique that will increase your acceptance rate significantly. Every serious travel writer needs these lists - these are your potential buyers.  The more potential buyers on your list, the better.

Here are five ways to beef up your magazine lists:

1. If you don’t have a magazine list - start building one. You can build a quick foundation with our eBook 100 Print Magazines. It’s a good way to start building your list so you aren’t staring at a blank page. Then add additional magazines to the list as you find them.

2. If you already have a list, scroll through it and update it. Have editors changed? Has their contact information changed? Have any of them gone out of business? Clean up your list with up-to-date information.

3. Are there new magazines to be added to your list? Add them along with relevant details, like editor contact details and writers guidelines.

4. Does your list include more than one genre? Separate out the genres to make it easier to find relevant publications. If you're savvy with spreadsheets, you can keep all the magazines in one file and put in a sort field for each genre. That way they’re easy to locate when needed.

5. Are you considering writing in a new genre? Start a new list with magazines for that new genre.

Where can you find new magazines to add to your lists?

While you’re stuck at home, look for leads on the internet. Subscribe to magazine databases. Use the Writer’s Market and other similar reference books. (See most requested links further down this eZine.)

When you have the “all clear” to travel around your neighborhood, visit newsstands & magazine racks. Also, visiting your local library can reap many rewards - and it’s free!

While you’re cleaning up your magazine lists, time will fly by. And you’ll feel better for it in a few months when you need those lists to pitch your new travel stories to editors.

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PitchTravelWrite.com Success Stories

As a result, we’ve moved up the travel writing totem pole and started getting better paid assignments with print magazines. We leveraged those assignments for two memorable complimentary trips this past year.

Our success story continues.

Here’s our travel writing success story for the past 12 months:

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Pitch Travel Write: Most Requested Links about Creating Magazine Lists

After all, if you can’t find magazines to pitch, you’re not going to get your stories published.

But I wouldn’t be doing you any favors by doing this research for you. If someone else does your work for you, you’re not going to learn how to do your own magazine searches. And, this is such a crucial skill for freelance writing success.

You need to put in the time on the Internet, researching Writer’s Market, and checking out the magazine racks at your local bookstore.

There are some things you can do to enhance your magazine researching skills. The following articles cover the nuts-and-bolts of creating distribution lists.

This article shows you—step-by-step—how to create your magazine distribution lists, and where to look for them.
How to Build Magazine Distribution Lists

Here’s a summary of how to select magazines where you can pitch your stories:
Where to Pitch Travel Stories

You can use magazine vendor websites to find magazines. Here’s how:
Finding Travel Magazine Sales Leads on Vendor Websites

Here are six reference books that I use to find new magazine leads:
Finding Magazine Leads: The Best Print References on the Market Today

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Books about travel writing might mention that press trips are available to travel writers, but they fall woefully short when it comes to telling writers how to get invitations. Most veteran travel writers keep this information to themselves.

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At 75 pages long, the only thing it really lacks is fluff. You can breeze through the basics in a single sitting, but actually taking action will be your bigger challenge. The book does everything it can to offer tools and advice, but it’s still up to you to follow it.”

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