4 Ways to Get an Editor’s Attention When You Pitch

You wouldn’t show up at a job interview dressed in torn sweatpants and an unwashed, ratty old T-shirt, clutching a half-eaten meatball sub in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other, would you? Of course not. As far as editors are concerned, though, if you send a...
4 Tips For Capturing The Right Images For Your Travel Story

4 Tips For Capturing The Right Images For Your Travel Story

Over the years, I’ve found that the key to capturing the right images and having enough photos after a trip to satisfy an editor is to follow these four easy steps: 1. Come up with as many ideas as you can beforehand I’ve discovered that my cache of images is so much...

5 Easy Steps To Getting An Editor’s Attention

Where should I send my story? It’s one of the top questions I’m asked at travel writing workshops, during writing retreats, and in feedback sessions with beginning freelance writers. But it’s the wrong question to ask. Instead, I encourage writers to start asking this...

How To Write A Listicle – 3 Tips To Get Started

One of the least-romantic (yet most-published) articles out there is the listicle. “’6 Amazing Ski Tours Around the World” – Outside Magazine “100 Best Albums of All Time” — Rolling Stone “100 American towns founded before the Revolution” — USA Today...

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