All Posts in Category: Magazines
Five Magazines Looking for City Guides
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 Road Trip Articles
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.
Is That a Magazine Idea Cheat Sheet in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
One of my favorite ways to ensure that every trip:
- results in assignments,
- results in assignments that I want to write, or, best of all
- results in assignments that I want to write that are achieved with minimal pitching effort
…is my pocket idea cheat sheet.
Have a Question About the Travel Magazine Database?
Some of our newsletter subscribers, webinar attendees, and blog readers have had some great questions about the Travel Magazine Database and how to sign up that I thought other folks would have, so I wanted to share them with you.
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This Week’s Webinar: Tour the Travel Magazine Database Live
When I first started travel writing full-time, I spent a couple years doing the usual things:
- writing tons of travel articles for $20 a pop for large websites
(please don’t do that! here’s why) - pouring my heart into pitching epic travel stories to websites like GONOMAD (check out these much better sites to substitute for five major low-paying markets like these)
- writing “full-time” for a site that had me doing tons of articles a week in an area I was really interested in (Italy), but didn’t pay enough to live in a first-world country
At some point, I said enough, and threw myself into pitching print magazines. It wasn’t hard at all to get assignments (which is why I counsel you all to pitch first and skip the low-paid writing part!), but I still remember very distinctly when I got my first $2,000 assignment. A dollar a word for the text and $1,000 for the photos.
How to Hone Your Article Ideas to Perfectly Fit Each Publication
Last week, we walked through trip itineraries and dissected the different article formats and audience slants that would work for each. But I’ve always found, especially with writers new to pitching magazines, that this process of thinking, on your own, what can fit into a magazine is potentially very destructive.
You run the risk of getting addicted to an article idea that simply doesn’t or wouldn’t fit into a magazine that will pay you for your words.
Announcing: At-Home Pitchapalooza Coming to Your Inbox This January
I want you to take your freelance travel writing to the next level next year. How can we do that?
I don’t know about you, but I suck at taking online courses.
Invariably, I sign up for them, I’m very excited, and then I just don’t make time to log in.
Or I do, and then I’m disappointed because the course is (without advance notice) only available in video that you have to watch live on the site one at a time with no transcripts or slides or worksheets to do offline, and that simply doesn’t work with my sporadic nomadic email access.
What Travel Writers Need for the Holidays
My dad and best friend have both gotten me books as my Christmas present for years. From my best friend, it’s always her latest fiction love. From my dad, you never know.
Tour the Travel Magazine Database
For our official launch of the Travel Magazine Database, we’ve created a tour video to walk visitors through the site.
Check it out:
Our Crazy Travel Magazine Database Money-Back Guarantee
If you’ve ever looked at an online marketing product, you’ve no doubt noticed the miles-long sales, pages, deluge of testimonials guilting you with their smiling faces, and big arrows point you toward the massive “BUY NOW” button.
But what I’ve always been curious about is the money-back guarantee.