Break Into Travel Writing: A Teach Yourself Creative Writing Guide

by Beth Blair

By plane, train, or automobile, you can turn your journeys into paychecks

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. "Break Into Travel Writing" brings you 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 important, how to get published. Written by travel writer Beth Blair, this book is full of practical and inspiring advice that will help you broaden your horizons and turn your travel writing into cash.

Genres: Writing, Travel

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Beth Blair (beth-blair.com) is an award-winning freelance writer. She is a former flight attendant manager, and as the mother of three, she has focused on family travel, airlines, aviation, and lifestyle topics. Currently, she is based in Minnesota and is the author of The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America (Unofficial Guides, 2016), the first consumer guidebook ever written on the mall. She also authored Break into Travel Writing (Hodder-Stoughton and McGraw-Hill, 2012). Online she is co-owner of TheVacationGals.com. She was the 2013 Shape Magazine Weight Loss Diary columnist.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is full of helpful tips for both the beginning and seasoned travel writer. It even includes tips on social media, ebooks and travel apps, making it very current and useful right now. It was also fun to read hints from some of my favorite travel writers inside the book, including Amanda Castleman, Donna Hull and Vera Marie Badertscher. I highly recommend the book because it aptly describes the efforts one needs to make to become a successful travel writer.

[Denise Covey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A helpful book for those of us who write travel articles. I read the paperback but it wouldn't show up in my search.

[Nathalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is exceptional. I realized after reading 4 hour work week that I would like to be a writer and I decided to try travel writing. I’d eaten Eat, Pray, Love and had a desire to write about my travels as well. But other than that I consider myself a beginner.

The author clearly knows the industry and despite this been written almost a decade ago, she was very forward thinking and has bounds of valuable information regarding social media bf the internet.

I finally understand the lingo I’ve been seeing on submission pages online not to mention the various styles and processes involved that only someone with experience in the travel writing industry would know.

Here’s to getting my first article published!

[Barbara Lifland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Because this sat on my shelf for awhile, some of the sources (websites referenced, etc.) are no longer valid. Also, I received it more because of my interest in creating a personal website for photography that includes travel information. Even though it was written for people who want to become paid writers and will only use photographs to illustrate their articles, I still found it very useful, making notes and highlighting throughout the book. I’ll keep and reference it as I begin my journey.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gathered a couple of good tips that could have been explained in a page. Became increasingly sceptical about many of the tips and contributors in this book - when you go and search out most of the people who are hailed as travel writing pioneers, their websites are no longer around. Very outdated and very American focussed.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though this booked is dated, there are some helpful tips regarding travel writing.