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Two Query Letter Strategies — and Which One Works Best

My research has shown two types of query letter formats.

One format is recommended in all the books about query letters. I call it the “elegant dance” and I rarely use it. Yet, it’s the one all the books seem to highlight.

My favorite approach is an alternative format and it's the strategy I’ve had tremendous success with. I call it the Direct Pitch Technique.

In this post I define and analyze both of these query letter formats. And then I explain why my Direct Pitch Technique is the most successful for landing travel assignments, especially if you're new to travel writing . . .

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Here's Who Joined Us in Charleston SC for Our Travel Writing & Photography Retreat and Our Marketing Master Class For Travel Writers

. . . grew up in Central Illinois farming country and while anxious to leave, always enjoys returning to see old friends and capturing country images.

His diverse career went from interior design to commercial photography (interiors and architecture), to printing and desktop publishing, to consulting, to technology. He’s currently a Solutions Consultant for Adobe.

His favorite thing is presenting and explaining technology to groups of users, showing them how to work smarter, not harder.

He loves travel and thinks incorporating photography with travel writing could be his next career option.

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Pitch Travel Write: Most Requested Links About Query Letters That Sell Your Travel Articles

Well-written query letters convince magazine editors that you have exciting travel stories their readers will absolutely love. All freelancers must learn the basics of writing good query letters.


Here’s our PitchTravelWrite Query Letter Resource Page with one dozen of our best articles on writing effective query letters . . .

LINK TO QUERY LETTER RESOURCE PAGE

MORE RESOURCES FOR TRAVEL WRITERS

Featured Book of the Month:

ADVANCED TRAVEL WRITERS' 2-PACK REFERENCE GUIDES

In How to Land Press Trips and Fam Tours you'll learn about how to use your assignments to request free and low-cost travel. You'll also get all the resources successful travel writers have at their fingertips to network with the right people and have DMOs clamoring to invite you to visit their region.

If luxury is your preferred style of travel, our manual How to Break into the Luxury Travel Writing Market will help you move quickly into this market. And it gives you a huge ready-made list of magazines and websites interested in publishing luxury articles.

When you purchase both these books together, you automatically save 10% on each book. During the month of March we’ll give you an additional $5 off the bundle price when you use discount code PTLT5:

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Latest News eBooks

We’re about to publish another eBook to help you get your travel stories published. It’s called The Best of Roy’s Blogs: Roy’s Solutions for Selling More Travel Stories, Writing Better, and Earning More Money.

You need to have a lot of skills to be successful in the freelance travel writing game. In the past fifteen years I’ve been bombarded with hundreds of email questions about many aspects of travel writing. The blogs you’re about to read are my succinct answers to these urgent questions.

These blogs are gathered from my email replies, Facebook posts, LinkedIn posts, blogs, and newsletter editorials. They provide quality solutions in summary form to the myriad challenges travel writers face.

Even better, at the end of each blog I give you the link to a more detailed and comprehensive coverage of each topic so you can continue on to a more in-depth post on our website PitchTravelWrite.com.

Follow the advice dispensed in this eBook and you’ll earn more from your travel writing by selling more stories and improving your travel writing.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve finished the draft of our ebook and our new release date is April 2023: 500 Print Magazines That Want To Publish Your Travel Articles. Rather than revise our current eBook, “100 Print Magazines That Want To Publish Your Travel Articles” we decided to write an entirely new book.

We’ve tossed out the magazines that have folded since the 2016 edition and added in a whopping 450 NEW magazines (maybe more) to this eBook. Yes, you read that right!

This compilation is far more specialized for travel writers than what you’ll find in Writer’s Market. Compiled over fifteen years from a wide variety of online sources, field resources, and book references, this comprehensive list includes international publications for the English-speaking market.

The magazine lists include . . .

• General Travel & Lifestyle Magazines
• Regional Travel & Lifestyle Magazines
• Luxury Travel & Lifestyle Magazines
• Travel Magazines about Select Countries
• Motorcycle Travel Magazines
• Outdoor Magazines
• Airline In-Flight Magazines
• Cruise Line On-Board Magazines
• Hotel In-Room Magazines
• Wedding Destination Magazines
• Food & Travel Magazines
• Family Travel Magazines
• RV & Motor Coaching Travel Magazines
• Gold Prospecting & Travel
• Inns, B&Bs, Victorian Homes
• Expat Travel Magazines
• Lighthouses
• Travel Photography
• Canals & Waterways Travel

Watch this newsletter for release dates soon to be announced.

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