This is an exciting time. And I don’t just mean for me personally—although I am thrilled to be Great Escape Publishing’s new editorial director. I’m looking forward to being in regular contact with you and sharing the insights I’ve picked up over the last decade I...

19 years ago, I never would have guessed I’d be a writer. Maybe like you, I’d never actually written anything. And aside from snapshots of my travels and friends, I’d never taken pictures, either. Fast forward 19 years and now I do both. Fresh out of college, my...

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...

Many years ago, a longtime magazine editor gave me some advice that proved to be unquestionably valuable. "A place is not an idea, he told me, but a place can serve up multiple ideas." It's helped me improve as a writer (more focus equals a better story) and become a...