This Week’s Free Freelance Travel Writing Class: Answers to Your Most Common Pitch Questions
When I am reviewing the magazine breakdowns our writers put together for the Travel Magazine Database, I’m always blow away by just how many opportunities there are out there to get published.
Five Magazines Looking for City Guides (Edition III)
Welcome to the Friday Freebie Five, a new weekly feature on Dream of Travel Writing’s Six Figure Travel Writer blog.
Each week, we comb our Travel Magazine Database to bring you five magazine sections open to freelancers around a theme–front-of-book trend pieces, long-form first-person features, short narrative postcards–to inspire your pitches.
How to Put Together a Pitch Portfolio to Support a Big Trip
Pitching is pitching is pitching.
If you know how to pitch, you can get magazine assignments, secure spots on press trips and land gigs writing blogs for company whether you’re battling the hordes flocking to respond to an online job ad or blazing a trail and cold emailing a tour company owner you’ve never met who isn’t technically in the market for a writer.
Right?
If you can nail one you can nail them all?
Five Magazines Looking for Front-of-Book Trend Pieces
Welcome to the Friday Freebie Five, a new weekly feature on Dream of Travel Writing’s Six Figure Travel Writer blog.
Each week, we comb our Travel Magazine Database to bring you five magazine sections open to freelancers around a theme–front-of-book trend pieces, long-form first-person features, short narrative postcards–to inspire your pitches.
How to Get a Spot on a Group Fam or Press Trip
“Journalists with confirmed assignments are invited to a Montreal weekend media trip this July 1 supported by the Marriott Chateau Champlain and partners, including Media Kitty!
In 2017, Montréal will turn 375 years old. The city’s major milestone year offers everyone a one-of-a-kind opportunity to celebrate its wealth of history and culture as well as its rich heritage, its people, its iconic places and its neighbourhoods. This will be the trip theme.
A complete agenda is being built. Early expressions of interest appreciated. Given the volume of expected replies, we will be back to those short-listed. Merci!”
Five Magazines Looking for Celebrity Profiles and Interviews
Welcome to the Friday Freebie Five, a new weekly feature on Dream of Travel Writing’s Six Figure Travel Writer blog.
Each week, we comb our Travel Magazine Database to bring you five magazine sections open to freelancers around a theme–front-of-book trend pieces, long-form first-person features, short narrative postcards–to inspire your pitches.
How to Set Up Individual Sponsored Trips from Scratch
One year when I had not been a full-time freelance travel writer for too many years, I was in Europe to attend a conference and had left some time open after the event hoping to get myself set up on a trip somewhere fabulous.
Five Magazines Looking for City Guides (Edition II)
Welcome to the Friday Freebie Five, a new weekly feature on Dream of Travel Writing’s Six Figure Travel Writer blog.
Each week, we comb our Travel Magazine Database to bring you five magazine sections open to freelancers around a theme–front-of-book trend pieces, long-form first-person features, short narrative postcards–to inspire your pitches.
Setting Up Sponsored Trips 101
“We call this the travel section, not the don’t travel section.”
– A real editor’s response to a story filed about a press trip that didn’t showcase the highlights of a destination as intended shared at the recent TBEX conference
The Six-Figure Travel Writing Road Map: “Must Read Book to Propel Your Travel Writing Career”
We’ve been very fortunate to have some lovely reviews of The Six-Figure Travel Writing Road Map come in recently!