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).
Advice from freelance writer and editor Jennifer Stevens. If you’re sure your article is perfect for a publication, then you should send it — the full article, not just a query. Don’t be deterred by the need for credentials.
No matter how good an idea you have for your article — even if it speaks, without question, to a current trend — if you don’t approach your piece with this simple truth in mind, it’s going to be difficult to sell.
Do you have what it takes to become a successful travel writer/photographer? Here are 12 Questions to assess if you do.
Tips from freelance travel writer Jennifer Stevens for telling your story without getting your readers bored.
The descriptions that editors like — the ones they pay for — are those that paint pictures so vivid, readers see and feel and taste right along with the writer.
I’m going to show you one of the most important things you can do to ensure that your descriptions help your articles stand out in an editor’s mind.
By John Forde in Paris, France The more you travel, the more you realize it pays to travel light. The good news for travel writers is that you don’t need much equipment to get by. (And of course, you’re most important writing tool resides between your ears!) Just the same, I get asked all the […]
The descriptions that editors like — the ones they pay for — are those that paint pictures so vivid, readers see and feel and taste right along with the writer.
Learn a few simple ways to go beyond straight description and write leads that really grab a reader.
Three ways you can parlay your travel-writing know-how into related writing opportunities.
