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Issue #418: Seven Reasons Why Assignment Letters Can Be Meaningless for Press Trips October 31, 2022 |
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My assignment for Collectible Automobile Magazine covered the Swigart Automobile Museum — the oldest car museum in the United States. 
This museum boasts a first-class, eclectic car collection ranging from 1903-1980.
We thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the Swigart Museum, given by Patricia Swigart herself! Since it was my birthday, she indulged me and let me sit in the striking 1936 Duesenberg (photo above). This car initially belonged to Jackie Coogan, the famous Uncle Fester of the Addams Family if you remember that era! While we were in the Huntingdon area Jonathan Smith, marketing director of the East Broad Top Railroad, gave us a private tour of this National Historic Landmark in the small town of Rockhill. If you’re into trains — especially steam trains — this is the place to visit. Besides restoring the historic buildings, they are also restoring some of their steam locomotives to operating condition.
Featured PostSeven Reasons Why Assignment Letters Can Be Meaningless for Press TripsThe standard protocol for landing press trips is to produce an assignment or two in advance for a high-visibility print magazine or travel website.My friend, travel writer Karin Lepari, prefers to go on a press trip and then produce an assignment after the fact. In this article, Karin and I exchange views on the pros and cons of these two different approaches.
Upcoming PostsNov 7: Writing for Boating Magazines & Other Nautical PublicationsNov 14: Our Resource Page for Your Travel Writing Business Nov 21: How To Launch Your Travel Writing Business – Fast Here's Who Joined Us in Charleston SC for Our Travel Writing & Photography Retreat and Our Marketing Master Class For Travel Writers
Sharon McLeod . . .
. . . an Oregon native, spent over thirty years delivering manuals for high tech products. Prior to that, she influenced the youth of America for a decade by teaching in public schools. Her future plans include recording, through travel writing, her observations and experiences about people, places, and events — and to do this in as many locales as possible. We’re also excited that Sharon received a complimentary invitation to attend the 2022 Pacific Northwest Travel & Words in North Bend, Oregon, on October 2-4. We look forward to hearing about her experience at the conference. Inspirational Travel Quote
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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 ClosedIf you want to get on our Interest List, follow the link below . . .Group Coaching Interest List 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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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.”
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