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For the remainder of February you can save $100 off the regular price of the individual workshops, The Travel Writing & Photography Retreat and The Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers.

If you sign up for BOTH workshops, you save $800.

When you sign up for both workshops you'll save $800 through the end of February! The Complete Package allows you to take both workshops back-to-back.

You’ll spend the first 4 days working on your writing craft and photography skills, and then you’ll learn exactly what you need to do to sell your stories in the last 3 days of the week. It’s the complete package!

To add to the excitement, you'll also have the opportunity to take part in a 1-day Press Trip around Charleston with the other attendees.

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This interactive course features lectures, writing exercises, in-the-field tours, group readings & discussions, and hands-on experience. You’ll also receive on-on-one feedback and goal setting in a private session with Roy.

This retreat is open to writers of all skill levels. The classroom exercises will help you write personal travel memoirs and stories you can keep for yourself, publish professionally, or share with friends and family on your blog or social media.

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You’ll learn how to resell your articles multiple times around the world to maximize your profit and how to pitch several story ideas to sky-rocket your acceptance rate.

And, most exciting of all, I’ll show you the secrets behind using your assignments to request complimentary travel perks and land press trips. Hello free hotels, resorts, and spas! Hello free tours, cruises, and first class dining!

We believe our Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers is the BEST of its kind, ANYWHERE!

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Editorial: Meeting Fascinating People As A Travel Writer

I toured the famous Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland, with a personal tour by the chapel curator. Our tour took in the main stone carvings in the Chapel and the atmospheric basement, made famous in Dan Brown’s book, The DaVinci Code. I’ve exchanged cultural views and friendship with the head Abbot at Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai’s most historic Buddhist temple, Thailand. Later, I saw the Abbot leading the prayers and chanting while the monks sat down to lunch.

I spent a day with renowned sculptor Al Farrow, in Marin County, San Francisco. Al makes large and potent recreations of cathedrals, synagogues, and mosques from dissembled and stripped down guns, bullets, artillery shells, hand grenades, small arms, and other military equipment. Inside each, he places small altars containing human finger bones. Powerful messages here! His large studio is a fascinating cross between an arms and munitions depot and a mausoleum. Al Farrow’s enormous, 1.5 ton, cathedral is on display in the San Francisco’s de Young Museum of Fine Arts.

I’ve talked puppetry with Martin Gobsch, one of the few remaining professional marionette puppet makers in the world, in his Erfurt studio in Germany. Martin’s handcrafted marionettes are fully articulated, and represent goblins, fairies, elves, and other characters from renowned German fairy tales. They “perform” in his Puppet Theater.

I’ve toured around Port Orchard’s famous Elandan Gardens Bonsai Tree Park, with tree sculptor Daniel Robinson, in Washington state. Daniel’s exquisite work with bonsai trees remains relatively unknown outside the region, but is, in this writer’s opinion, one of Washington state’s finest tourist attractions.

And one of my best “people perks” is hanging with other travel writers on press trips. We’re all kindred spirits, and share a common love of travel and writing, and have some tall tales to tell each other.

Meeting extraordinary, talented people like these is always a great thrill and one of the reasons I’ve stayed in the game since 2007. You can experience these perks too, if you stay with the game, and land those assignments.

With more than 1,000 published stories under my belt, you can imagine the variety of intriguing people I’ve encountered. Here are a few more of the interesting people I’ve met on my writing assignments. I hope this will inspire you, especially if you’re just breaking into travel writing.

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Is Your Travel Article Ready to Submit?

This handy checklist will tell you whether you’ve missed any of the fundamental items necessary for turning in a quality piece. The checklist covers the broad strokes writing items. And, it will help you avoid the most egregious writing errors.

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Candi Licence: Another PitchTravelWrite Success Story

“I fell into travel writing by accident. My husband and I retired at the end of 2013, sold most of our stuff, stored our precious things like art and family heirlooms, and began traveling full time.

We’d go to places we always wanted to see, stay for 3 months and then move onto our next adventure. I started a blog to let people know where we were and what we were doing, and I got feedback from people I trusted that they loved my writing. Writing about our adventures was intoxicating and getting complimented was exhilarating.

Fast forward 3 years, and I attended a travel writing workshop to see if it was possible for me to become a travel writer. I drafted an article during the workshop, and it got a great reception from participants and an Editor who was coaching aspiring writers throughout the event. I left the workshop fired up, with stars in my eyes.

Once home, tried to sell the article and learned my first hard lesson. Always pitch first! It’s hard for beginners to place a completed article.

The second lesson I learned is that you can’t submit queries to one editor at a time — it’s a complete waste of time. I’d wait a month, get no response and then send my query out to the next editor with the same result. I was spinning my wheels and getting nowhere.

I was frustrated. I thought I had the talent to be a good writer but didn’t know how to break into the field. That’s when I saw Roy Stevenson’s Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers. I signed up, took the workshop, and it changed everything for me.”

Read Candi's Travel Writing Success Story

Pitch Travel Write: Most Requested Links About the Business of Travel Writing

Some people approach travel writing as a hobby—and that’s fine. But, if you want to earn income from your travel writing, you need to think of it as a business. And it helps to know a few business basics specific to travel writing.

Here are 21 of our posts about the business of travel writing

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RESOURCES FOR TRAVEL WRITERS

Featured Bundle : Beginner's 3-Pack

Here's what's included:

The Complete Guide to Query Letters 
Everything you need to know about query letters - and 20 examples you can start using immediately.

125 Websites That Want to Publish Your Travel Stories
 A list of 125+ quality travel websites where you can quickly collect some bylines - without all the struggle of finding websites who want your stories.

100 Print Magazines That Want to Publish Your Travel Articles  
A list of 100 print magazines that will save you hours of time researching and creating lists yourself. They give you a foundation of sales leads you can use and build upon.

When you buy the bundle you get 10% off the price of individual books. And this month you can get an addition $5 off when you use discount code f5b

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Did You Know . . .

Your next opportunity to attend these classes be in Charleston, South Carolina, June 2022. There are still a few open seats in these workshops, so sign up while we have space.

Our travel writing & marketing workshops are highly informative and a blast, socially.

Travel Writing and Photography Retreat

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The Complete Package (both workshops and a BIG discount)

You can access the list of the top ten travel writing workshops from Travel Writers Exchange at the link below: Travel Writers Exchange workshop list: #1 Marketing Master Class

ONLINE Travel Writing & Marketing Master Class

Who's it for?

• If you’re a novice travel writer, or you haven’t had much luck selling your articles to print magazines, this Online Travel Writing & Marketing Workshop is for you.
• If you weren’t able to travel to our Live Master Class, here’s the opportunity to attend anyway - without any travel costs and at a substantially reduced cost!
• If you work a full-time job and can’t get time off to attend the live class – you can still attend on your own schedule after working hours.
• If you’ve wanted to attend our Live Marketing Master Class but can’t get your schedule to fit with the dates it’s offered – here’s your opportunity to attend at your own convenience.

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