The Travel Writer's Handbook 5th Ed: How to Write and Sell Your Own Travel Experiences

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Taking the trip and experiencing the anecdote are considerably easier than selling the story. Whether you want to go professional or just want to expand your audience beyond your family and friends, you need to plan ahead to successfully market the fruits of your vacation. Louise Purwin Zobel, a college writing instructor with hundreds of published travel articles to her name, explains the basics of research, audience, market, titles, queries, freebies, photos, angles, interviews, and the latest boon to travel writing: the Internet. She promises that with the mechanics under your belt, you can succeed, and her confidence is catching.


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Veteran travel writer Louise Purwin Zobel shows readers not only how to research and write winning travel articles, but how to sell them again and again. In this new edition, Zobel updates all the marketing sources and tax information, along with how to obtain writing assignments for websites, and how to effectively use the library and the Internet as research tools. Zobel covers all the nuts and bolts aspects of travel writing from pre-trip research to specific marketing strategies, and even includes 12 formats for travel articles with sure-fire appeal to editors and readers. The book offers insightful advice on pre- and post-trip topics such as: targeting your market before you begin, doing background research before you leave, writing queries and getting assignments, finding new angles for overworked subjects, setting up and conducting successful interviews, and taking advantage of freebees and junkets.


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