All Posts in Category: Magazines
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Five Magazines Looking for Essay 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.