Jennifer Stevens is the author of The Ultimate Travel Writer's Program and architect of Great Escape Publishing’s annual Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop. The Executive Editor of International Living, Jen has gallivanted through 27 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and Asia, writing about the best locales for overseas travel, retirement, and investment. She has decades of experience in both writing and publishing travel articles.
In past incarnations, she lived in Paris and wrote market research reports for the Foreign Commercial Service - and she spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer on a spit of sand between Madagascar and Mozambique. She makes her home in the Colorado Rockies where, with her husband, she corrals three boys, a cat, and a dog (the toads, mercifully, finally met their end).
Dear Reader, Jen Stevens here again today as your guest editor. I’m sitting in for Lori, who’s still in Paris. People have been calling all week to register for our upcoming Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Denver. But a handful of skeptical readers, though intrigued by the workshop, have called to ask: How realistic is […]
If you want to increase the odds of getting your article published, don’t send it to more editors, send it to the right editors.
Jen Stevens shares the three travel writing tools she can’t work without. Find out more…
Jen Stevens shares how to make your writing more powerful and get editors’ attention.
Headlines are designed to grab your attention and draw you in. Yet most travel writers all but ignore this aspect of their stories when they send them to an editor. Here are a few tips from freelance writer Jennifer Stevens on how to increase your article sales.
Dear Travel Writer, It took me a while to wander through the maze of tables we had set up here for last night’s Publication Expo. And I enjoyed it just as much as our attendees did. I chatted with many of the nearly 70 folks on hand here, and I thumbed through the same Market […]
If you simply learn a few important tricks of the trade about putting an article together and about dealing with editors — exactly the sorts of things you’ll find documented in our archives — then you’ll be well ahead of the majority of new writers (even seasoned writers) out there.
Once you’ve invested the time and energy in researching, writing, and editing an article, it’s a pity to get just one sale out of it. Now, if you maintained some rights to the piece, then you can resell it as-is in non-competing markets. (We’ve written about this option before. Go here for an article by […]
Turn Your Family Vacation into Cash at FamilyFun Magazine [EDITOR’S NOTE: Unfortunately this site no longer exists.] A road trip… an insider’s city weekend… a themed round-up of attractions… you have lots of options when creating a family travel piece for FamilyFun Magazine. But do keep in mind: The readers (with children ages 3-12) are […]
Advice from freelance travel writer Jennifer Stevens. Why do assignment letters open doors and how can you get them?
