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Are You Spending Lots of Time Writing “Literary” Travel Pieces that Editors Aren’t Picking Up?
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Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
How Can You Tell Which Part of a Magazine is a Department?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
Big Travel Magazine Database News! (And a little anniversary celebration)
We’re nearly halfway through the year, and the Travel Magazine Database has been publishing a new full magazine breakdown every day, covering everything you need to know about:
- which parts of each magazine are open to freelancers
- the exact requirements for each section open to freelancers
- what they’ve covered in these sections in the past
- how to reach out to the magazine’s editors directly
- and more!
In December and January, we also ran two rounds of searches for new writers for the database and have been delighted to add new writers to the team to keep the new magazines rolling your way.
We’re also bringing on a new office manager to help support Travel Magazine Database customers and get updates out via Facebook, Twitter, and email on the new magazines we add to the database each week.
But that means that we’ve added more than one hundred new magazines to the database that you might not have heard about, so we wanted to pull them all together so you can easily see what’s new and check out magazines that interest you by topic.
If you don’t have a subscription to the database and would like to join, until the end of the month, we have a special offer for new members for the one-year anniversary of our first beta group in the database!
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The Key to Recurring Income Writing for Magazines: The Editors Stable
As part of a series of questions on our coaching program, I received this inquiry over email earlier this week that I know affects many of you:
“How quickly can people make a regular income in the freelance travel writing world? I’d really like to quit my part-time job so that I can dive into travel writing full time .”
Can You Ask Travel Magazine Editors to Send You Their Editorial Calendars?
Welcome to a new feature here at Dream of Travel Writing–the Monday Mailbag! We often get questions from readers, folks in our accountability group, or coaching program members that we think would apply to a lot of you.
Now, with permission, agony-aunt-style, we’ll be sharing a new one with you each Monday. If you have a question you’d like to see included, please send it to us at questions [at] dreamoftravelwriting.com and make sure to include a line saying we have permission to reprint your question.
On to the tricky travel writing questions!
How Most People Get it Wrong with Cover Letters for Online Ads and Letters of Introduction for Travel Trade Magazines
Writing an LOI for a travel trade magazine bears a lit of resemblance to writing a cover letter for a job application (or, more accurately, the email you send when you respond to an ad for a writing gig).
But, there’s one unfortunate thing about how most people approach both of those forms of communication.
The “prevailing wisdom” is that this email is meant to be a sort of summary of your resume, highlighting relevant skills or experience so that the hiring manager can decide if they should even bother to read your resume.
And when it comes to applying for job-jobs, I often find perfectly, if not highly, qualified applicants don’t get past this step.
How to Break into Travel Trade Magazines for Recurring Work Opportunities
We talk a lot here at Dream of Travel Writing about how you need to set up solid streams of recurring income to make it in this profession.
Checks from big glossy magazines can take years (seriously) to come. And spending hours putting together a pitch, working out the details, and nailing a publication’s style for one single assignment from a magazine is simply not worth your time.
This Week’s Free Freelance Travel Writing Class: How to Use to Travel Magazine Database to Power Up Your Pitches
So many travel article ideas sound great.
Not just in theory.
They really sound interesting. When you tell them to your friends, they all want you to explain more.
And yet when you send them to editors, you hear nothing.
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.