The Writer S Handbook Guide To Travel Writing

From newspaper features to armchair travellers' memoirs, this guide offers essential information for any budding travel writer looking to break into this increasingly popular genre. There are also interviews with leading representatives of the trade, evaluation of the market, advice on contracts and agents.

Veteran travel writer Jacqueline Harmon Butler shows readers, one step at a time, how to research, write, and sell travel articles--but most importantly, she details what makes a travel article a winner. In this new edition, Butler updates her bestselling handbook for the 21st century with helpful tips on conducting Internet research, utilizing new advancements in digital photography and finding helpful applications on mobile phones. She also helps aspiring writers navigate the changing world of publishing by exploring blogging, new travel websites, and social media, all while discussing how best to expand your platform. She includes a brand new introduction to reflect the current state of the travel industry and the change in editors' needs. Butler covers all the nuts and bolts aspects of travel writing from pre-trip research, specific marketing strategies, and even includes 12 formats for travel articles with sure-fire appeal to editors and readers. She gives insightful and often humorous advice on pre- and post-trip topics like: • How to target your market before you begin • How to save time by doing background research before you leave • How to write queries and get assignments in advance • How to find new angles for overworked subjects • What to take along--from video equipment and laptops to travel documents • How to set up and conduct successful interviews • How to take advantage of freebies and junkets without “selling out” • How to sell what you write--and then sell it again

In the new edition of this standard guide, veteran travel writers Louise Purwin Zobel and Jacqueline Butler cover everything from pre-trip research on the Internet and at the library, obtaining writing assignments for websites, and more!

Travel writing is one of the most exciting roads a freelance writer can take today, and the market is as wide as the horizon. If you're interested in turning your travels-here and abroad- into cash, this guide will point you in the right direction. The Travel Writer's Handbook tells you everything you need to know to write and sell your travel experiences. All the secrets of travel writing are shared by much-published travel writer Louise Purwin Zobel. You'll learn how to prepare for your trip, how to streamline your research, how to take salable photos, what to do about freebies, how to do on-site research (and go places where ordinary tourists can't), where to look for your story-even tips on what to pack. This handbook also tells you how to sell to the amazing variety of U.S. and foreign markets; including national and regional magazines, newspapers, newsletters, brochures, and travel-related books.

This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Get Your Travel Writing Published will give those of you who love to travel and long to write about it the essential tools to turn it into a profession. By the end of this book, you will know what steps you will need to take to get your work published, the ABCs of writing winning travel articles and the markets available to you, all while avoiding common beginner's pitfalls. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of getting your travel writing published. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

The keys to real success in travel writing and blogging.