Author : Tim Leffel
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609101084
This is the first guide to earning money from travel writing in a media landscape turned upside down. With stories and advice for dozens of working travel writers, editors, and publishers, Travel Writing 2.0 leads readers on a path to success straddling print and electronic media. Written by Tim Leffel, a successful writer, book author, editor, and blogger.
Author : Beth Blair
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1444171240
Getting paid to go on holiday may sound like a great lifestyle. But there's a lot of hard graft involved - particularly, breaking into this industry in the first place. Few industries have changed as rapidly as publishing, and within publishing few areas have changed as rapidly as travel publishing. This book will bring you bang up-to-date with the latest trends in blogging, social media, magazines, websites, travel guides, and travel books. It provides specific advice for each sector, on how to write and, just as importantly, how to get published. Written by Beth Blair, an American travel writer who has been published in books, magazines, and online, this book is full of practical and inspiring advice that will help you broaden your horizons and turn your travel writing into cash.
Author : Don George
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1787010007
Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel - whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity. You don't have to make money to profit from travel writing. Sometimes, the richest rewards are in the currency of experience. How to be a Travel Writer reveals the varied possibilities that travel writing offers and inspires all travellers to take advantage of those opportunities. That's where the journey begins - where it takes you is up to you. Let legendary travel writer Don George show you the way with his invaluable tips on: The secrets of crafting a great travel story How to conduct pre-trip and on-the-road research Effective interviewing techniques How to get your name in print (and money in your bank account) Quirks of writing for newspapers, magazines, online and books Extensive listings of writers' resources and industry organisations Interviews with established writers, editors and agents About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -- Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Author : Gabi Logan
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780692670965
Are you waiting for your chance to become a travel writer? For the first time ever, a professional travel writer spills the secrets of how to be a highly-paid travel writer in a clear, step-by-step formula you can easily copy to create your own dream career. Everything you want to know about: how to earn professional writing rates right away what you really need on your website to snag assignments how much magazines really pay what editors really want-and don't want-in a pitch where to pitch (listings of more than 1500 magazines) how to get lucrative gigs writing for travel companies The Six-Figure Travel Writing Road Map walks aspiring travel writers and travel writers who have hit a plateau through how to maximize their online presence, land recurring revenue, power up their pitching, create custom writing gigs, and break into the big leagues.
Author : Don George
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781741047011
Providing information on how to get started in travel journalism, this book deals with all aspects of the profession, from its glamorous image to the gruelling reality.
Author : Laurie Gough
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781907109089
This feisty, sexy, energetic tale of a young woman's solo journey through Fiji, Bali, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Morocco offers the best of memoir and travel narrative combined. Gough chronicles her encounters with both humor and wisdom as she covers the globe on her own. ''Passionate and poetic.'' - San Francisco Examiner
Author : Brian Hall
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1446467341
'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one understands something one had not understood before. Mr Hall is witty and amusing, but not snide; he has a lightness of touch which allows him to write of extremely serious matters without solemnity; he knows how to convey a great deal in a few words' Sunday Telegraph 'He is an observant and witty writer...you believe implicitly that he has met the people he writes about, and that they said what he quotes them as saying' Sunday Times
Author : David Farley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 110110497X
Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its disappearance. Farley recounts how the relic passed from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.
Author : L. Peat O'Neil
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781582973814
The Globe-Trotter's Guide to Researching, Writing and Selling the Adventures of a Lifetime &break;&break;Let the reader feel the ticket in your hand, see your ports of call, meet the people you've come to know. Put it all on paper. &break;&break;With the guidance of L. Peat O'Neil - who is on the staff of The Washington Post Magazine - you'll write engagingly about your travels, whether in journals for your own pleasure or articles for publication. &break;&break; Discover the many types of travel articles you can write.&break; Make your journey as a seasoned travel writer does.&break; Write journal entries that lead to first drafts.&break; Organize your articles and make them flow to the end.&break; Strengthen your writing style to keep readers captivated.&break; Find information, verify it and bring it to life on paper.&break; Take your own travel photographs - or mine other sources.&break; Follow the most promising paths to selling your articles.&break; Get a glimpse of the travel writer's life. Is it for you? &break;&break;Writing and marketing exercises follow pertinent chapters. Along with her instruction, O'Neil mixes in examples from travel articles. You'll taste the flavor of distant destinations even as you see how the writers sprinkled in that spice. Don't be surprised if you feel a quickening of the pulse and the call of the open road. The world is full of fascinating places.
Author : Carl Hoffman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0767929810
Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the most rickety trains. The Lunatic Express takes us into the heart of the world, to some its most teeming cities and remotest places: from Havana to Bogotá on the perilous Cuban Airways. Lima to the Amazon on crowded night buses where the road is a washed-out track. Across Indonesia and Bangladesh by overcrowded ferries that kill 1,000 passengers a year. On commuter trains in Mumbai so crowded that dozens perish daily, across Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in, and, scariest of all, Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., by Greyhound. The Lunatic Express is the story of traveling with seatmates and deckmates who have left home without American Express cards on conveyances that don't take Visa, and seldom take you anywhere you'd want to go. But it's also the story of traveling as it used to be—a sometimes harrowing trial, of finding adventure in a modern, rapidly urbanizing world and the generosity of poor strangers, from ear cleaners to urban bus drivers to itinerant roughnecks, who make up most of the world's population. More than just an adventure story, The Lunatic Express is a funny, harrowing and insightful look at the world as it is, a planet full of hundreds of millions of people, mostly poor, on the move and seeking their fortunes.
