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Lori Allen Lori Allen is the Director of Great Escape Publishing, which publishes nearly thirty home-study programs, including The Ultimate Travel Writer's Program, Turn Your Pictures into Cash, Importing Fortunes and Leading Tours for Fun & Profit. Lori is also the Editor of The Right Way to Travel, which features articles geared to help writers and photographers improve their skill, sell their work, and earn an income through travel. Over the past twelve years, Lori Allen has worked personally with more than 3,000 budding travel writers and photographers to help them meet those same goals - to hone their writing and photography skills and to better market themselves to prospective clients and editors. Biggest confession: I just pretend to be a perfect packer. In reality, I actually violate all my own rules for packing. I always overpack. I always forget to pack headache medicine (and I get a headache on nearly every trip). And I have no idea how to judge temperatures. If the weather report says 70 degrees, I don't know if that means shorts or pants, long sleeve or short. In the end I usually pack both and wear only a third of what I bring. And since I'm already giving up my travel flaws, I should also mention that I get insanely motion sick when I travel and I never take anything for it. You'd think I'd carry Dramamine or Bonine with me wherever I go (even a short taxi ride makes me dizzy). But no, I never remember it. I guess the saving grace is that if I ever get sick, I've got enough clothes in my bag to change.

Animal Photography Tips

Turns out, the most effective device for getting a dog to sit up when he’s laying down is actually a squeaky, fur-covered rat.  Dogs respond best to sounds but a tail… a tail will get the dog to sit up because he/she thinks it’s actually an animal’s backside (and dogs always want to smell a […]

Graveyards and Ghost Tales

Today: *** April Means October: How to Turn Your Spring-Time Months into Saleable Articles this Fall *** Electronic Guide: How to Find the Best Story Ideas and Where to Publish Them *** Practical Writing Prompt of the Week: Writing Funny Travel Stories *** Reader Feedback: Published in Common Ties Dear Reader, It’s April, but here […]

Last-Minute Gift Ideas For The Traveler

Today: *** Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Traveler… Writer…Photographer… and Reader *** Practical Writing Prompts of the Week: Write about How Other Cultures Celebrate Holidays and Life Passages, or Your Own Family Reunions *** Reader Feedback: What to Charge for Your Article Dear Reader, Christmas shopping was particularly hard for me this year. Normally, […]

Announcing: A New Place to Get Published – The Travel Post Monthly

Next week we’re launching our very first issue of a new travel publication we’re developing with the International Travel Writers & Photographers Alliance Members. I’ll include the link below so you can get a quick sneak peek. The Travel Post Monthly, as it’s called, essentially functions as two things: 1) an online travel magazine where […]

Turn Your Pictures Into Postcards

Today: *** Turn Your Pictures into Postcards *** Practical Writing Prompt of the Week: Dear Reader, I’ll never buy another postcard again. The United States Postal Service has a cool feature you might not know about… If you go to: http://www.usps.com/createmail/welcome.htm, you can upload a picture and they’ll create, print, and mail a postcard for […]