by Mark Andrews | Jun 24, 2019
As children, we learned to draw by joining dots. Landing your first byline as a travel writer can often be as simple—it’s just a matter of finding and connecting the correct dots. The way I landed an article in the October/November edition of World Travel... by Mark Andrews | Mar 8, 2019
Two minutes is all it took. I needed the pictures anyway for an article. Just a few carefully-constructed shots of the dumplings. They needed time to cool before I could eat them, so I wasn’t even spoiling my food! Some quick processing in Lightroom and then really... by Mark Andrews | Mar 28, 2018
If you want to succeed as a travel writer you need to be on a constant lookout for new publications and opportunities to get more bylines. This means looking online, and searching for hard copies in places such as the doctor’s waiting room or the hair salon. However,... by Mark Andrews | Feb 10, 2018
Last summer, I had the honor of judging the Best Responsible Tourism Story Award for a certain country’s society of travel writers. I had been invited to do this by an editor I work with and who also happens to be vice president of the society. I noticed something... 
by Mark Andrews | May 27, 2017
Godzilla tore its way down the Japanese highway hurtling past cars. Godzilla is the nickname of the Nissan GT-R sports car I’d collected earlier from Nissan’s global headquarters in Yokohama. Of the 10 articles I’ve so far had published from that 2014 trip to Japan,...