Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Writing Guidebooks and Non-Fiction Book Marketplace
In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:
- how to land free trips
- how to get paid really, really well for your writing
- how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
- how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
- how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
- how to get work done on the road
- how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
- how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals
You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.
But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.
Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating through all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, July 27, 5pm EST: The Guidebook Guide Series: The Players and the Game
Not all guidebook companies are equal–for the writer, which is very different than in the public perception of the brand–when it comes to pay, treatment, and the writing process.
Join us for the first webinar in a new series on how to break into the publishing world through guidebook writing.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, July 27.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, July 28, 5pm EST: The Guidebook Guide Series: The Life of a Guidebook Writer on the Road
For the second webinar in our series on how to break into guidebook writing, we continue learning about the guidebook landscape for professional travel writers.
While you may have heard the bad and the ugly about life as a guidebook writer, we dig into the reality of those who have made it their full-time gig.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, July 28.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, July 29, 5pm EST: The Guidebook Guide Series – The Writing Side of Guidebook Work
For this live webinar, the third part of our new series, we explore what it is like to work as a guidebook writer today, from the money to the travel to the actual writing.
We also answer the question what is it actually like to write a book-length work in a month or two–particularly working in a tried and true formula you have little control over?
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, July 29.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, July 30, 5pm EST: What Is and What Is Not a Salable Non-Fiction Book Today: Finding Your Place in the Marketplace
You shouldn’t take one step down the research rabbit hole with a book project until you understand how it fits into the marketplace. Editors and agents love to ask “where would this go in Barnes and Noble,” and their favorite authors are the ones that understand the book industry.
In this webinar, we explore what is selling today (along with some peeks at what is not and why) and explore the age-old question of to self-publish or not to self-publish, but I introduce you to a powerful tool that can help you quickly and easily find both what your book should focus on (because the decision really isn’t up to you) and how to get an agent!
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, July 30.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, July 31, 5pm EST: Know Your Non-Fiction Book’s Market to Make Its Business Case
In this webinar, I introduce the non-fiction book proposal and its main sections and then zero in on one of the two you need to spend your most time and research prowess on: the target market.
This is where your book will literally live and die. It doesn’t matter to an agent how interesting they think your topic is if he doesn’t think they can sell it to an editor, and it doesn’t matter to an editor how much she loves your writing if her publisher doesn’t think he can make his money back and more on the book.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, July 31.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Don’t be late! All the free replays start right on time, and the system isn’t able to accept late attendees.
You can read all about our free webinar replays and get answers to any questions you have on our comprehensive FAQ page, or grab any webinars you have missed in our On-Demand Webinar Library.