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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!

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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!

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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.

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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?

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Have You Ever Tried to Pitch a Travel Article Idea in Person?


A few years back, I went to one of the major writing conferences in the U.S.—more for writing books that journalism or blogging—and it included the opportunity to share a table with dozens of literary agents for three minutes each and directly pitch them your book in hopes that they would like it and offer to represent you and help you get a book deal.

You only got 90 seconds to present your case though. The rest of them time was for them to respond or ask questions.

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