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Issue #415: Group Coaching Registration is OPEN! October 10, 2022 |
| Greetings Fellow Travel Writers! . . . and WELCOME all new subscribers. Thanks for joining us.
Group Coaching for Travel WritersRegistration is OPEN
This 12-month program, with pre-recorded video sessions, has everything you need to know about travel writing: tips to take your writing to the next level, how to sell your articles successfully, dreaming up story ideas that editors want to buy, writing enticing query letters, and the photography techniques to create photo galleries editors will love. And much more!
All the details are here . . .
If you want to build your freelance writing business successfully and you like learning in a low-pressure supportive environment, this program was made for you. Our group coaching program includes a private Facebook group so you can join in discussions with supportive, like-minded writers — it's our Mastermind Community. You can share your goals, frustrations, questions, solutions, and successes. You’ll get answers to your questions when you’re stuck or confused. And you’ll become part of a new group of friends. Are you ready to launch or re-launch your travel writing career? Registration is limited to the first 15 people who sign up — act quickly if you want to join this session!
Group Coaching is $497 for 12 months. That’s only $41/month and you'll get full online access to Roy and Linda to answer your questions, get advice, and get feedback. You'll also get access to an online community of aspiring travel writers to ask for help, get opinions, share information, and brag about your successes -- AND you get a one hour, personal, one-on-one coaching/consulting session with Roy. Read about all the benefits here …
Freelance travel writing is a solo endeavor — why not join a community to help inspire and motivate you? You'll learn everything you need to know about travel writing and travel photography. You won’t find a better deal that’s so comprehensive and enjoyable than our Group Coaching Program. Featured PostTravel Writing Ethics & Complimentary TravelTravel and tourism is one of the world’s largest industries. Its total contribution to the global economy in 2016 was $7.6 trillion (USD). And direct revenue from international tourism, according to Statista.com, was $1.6 trillion.That’s a massive industry! There’s virtually an unlimited supply of destinations and attractions. And along with these come a multitude of opportunities for travel writers. Most published travel writers, at some stage, will receive offers of travel assistance (aka “complimentary travel” or “comps”). These complimentary travel perks cover everything from airfare to hotel and resort accommodations, and meals. Travel comps often include private tour guides, spa treatments, and free entry into museums and tourist attractions and special events. On a press trip, the sponsoring Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) might cover all the above expenses. In other cases, a lesser combination of these expenses is covered. I’ve been on 100+ press trips of various stripes that ranged from having all expenses covered to just a few. Press trips are an exciting part of travel writing, but they come with some ethical issues. This post is about the most common ethical issues for accepting comped travel:
Upcoming PostsOct 17: Why Travel Writers Must Attend Conferences & WorkshopsOct 24: Why You Should—and Shouldn’t—Write Travel Articles for Free Oct 31: Seven Reasons Why Assignment Letters Can Be Meaningless for Press Trips Here's Who Joined Us in Charleston SC for Our Travel Writing & Photography Retreat and Our Marketing Master Class For Travel Writers
Janet Rae-Dupree . . .
. . . has been a news reporter, sci/tech correspondent, health/medicine writer, and freelance contributor to dozens of newspapers and magazines over the past four decades. Now focused on travel writing, she draws on adventures in Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia, India, Japan, Puerto Rico, the Baltics, Scandinavia, Mexico, and all 50 of the United States. Janet views her role as a translator, taking the complex and arcane and turning them into engaging stories that draw the reader into new worlds and experiences. Janet recently received a complimentary invitation to attend the 2022 Pacific Northwest Travel & Words Conference in North Bend, Oregon, on October 2-4 along with a select group of 20 writers. We look forward to hearing more about her experience at this event. Inspirational Travel Quote
Pitch Travel Write: Most Requested Links to Help You Sell Your ArticlesGetting published is the main objective of freelance travel writers.Every article you write needs to be published somewhere, so you need solid systems in place to do it quickly, efficiently, and successfully. After all, if you can't sell your articles, you don't get to write them! Here’s the link to our entire suite of articles on getting your stories published. It’s a gold mine of information. And, it’s free!
MORE RESOURCES FOR TRAVEL WRITERSFeatured Book of the Month:How To Break Into The Luxury Travel Writing Market: A Handbook For Travel Writers
How To Break Into The Luxury Travel Writing Market: A Handbook For Travel Writers
Would you like to stay at luxury resorts, villas, and lodges—for free? How about being treated like royalty in high-end resorts? Would you enjoy personalized tours with your own guide and driver? Does being pampered with lavish treatments in some of the world’s most beautiful spas sound good to you? Would you enjoy eating at some of the finest restaurants in the world—for free? Wine tasting at some of the world’s most gorgeous boutique wineries? My 12-chapter, 130-page manual will walk you, step-by-step, through the luxury travel writing process. You’ll learn how to get luxury travel assignments and leverage them to land luxury travel trips. I’ve used these techniques to land assignments at dozens of the finest luxury resorts and spas in the world. This manual contains an up-to-date list of 150+ print magazines and travel websites that publish luxury travel articles. It’s the most comprehensive list of luxury magazine outlets you’ll find ANYWHERE. Having immediate access to these lists alone is worth the price of the eBook, saving you hundreds of hours of research. Save $5 this month when you use Promo Code: OL5
Latest News on Workshops & eBooksTravel Writing & Marketing WorkshopsWe’re already planning next year’s Travel Writing and Marketing workshops. We'll hold them in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe is a beautiful small city of 83,000. It has enough good restaurants, art galleries, boutique shops, museums, and other attractions to keep travel journalists entertained for a solid week. We're already looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe! New eBooks Coming Soon We’re excited to announce that we’ve finished the draft of our ebook “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 it needed a complete overhaul. We’ve tossed out the magazines that have folded since the 2016 edition and added in a whopping 450 NEW magazines to this eBook. Yes, you read that right! We’ll have more details in an upcoming newsletter once we’ve done the finishing touches. 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. More information on both eBooks coming soon. Group Coaching Registration is OPENAre you ready to join us in the October 2022 session?You can read all the details at the beginning of this newsletter or access all the details at the link below:
Did You Know . . .Our Complete Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers is ranked #1 on TravelWritersExchange.com’s Top Ten Travel Writing Workshops.Your next opportunity to attend these classes be in 2023. Our travel writing & marketing workshops are highly informative and a blast, socially. Our travel writing & marketing workshops are highly informative and a blast, socially. Get on our interest list for updates:
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Consulting PitchTravelWrite.com, is our information-packed website for travel writers. This e-zine, a series of travel writing books and reference guides, coaching programs, and our workshops all work together to give you guidance in this field. Our aim is to provide you with practical, nitty gritty information to help you gain entry into the travel writing realm and all the enjoyment that comes with it.
Awards and AccoladesWe're thrilled to announce that www.PitchTravelWrite.com is once again on The Write Life’s list of 100 BEST WEBSITES FOR WRITERS!You can see the entire list by visiting their website - click on the graphic to view the list now.
We're proud to announce that our travel writing website has made Writer’s Digest Magazine’s 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2022 101 BEST WEBSITES FOR WRITERS. Writer's Digest Magazine also lists us on their Best Genre/Niche Websites for 2021. Writer's Digest doesn’t bestow these awards lightly. And we’re the only travel writing website on their lists!
And the accolades for PitchTravelWrite.com just keep pouring in! Our website helps travel writers successfully sell their travel stories. Thank you, Writer’s Digest Magazine, for listing us on your “Best Genre/Niche Websites for 2020, 2021 and 2022.”
Friend me on FacebookMy Facebook page is about freelance travel writing. I frequently post about:• links to other well produced travel websites and blogs • links to my travel articles • magazine cover stories and back stories • links to resource pages • links to coaching and mentoring resources . . .and plenty of other useful information to get you up to speed Link to Roy's Personal Facebook page That's all for now. Until next week - just keep pitching! Roy Roy Stevenson |
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