As I’ve mentioned on this travel writing blog several times and in the travel writing newsletter, I was a speaker at the TBEX conference earlier this month in Toronto. My talk was titled “Beyond Your Blog: Expanding Your Publishing Empire.” If you missed it attending another one at the same time or couldn’t attend TBEX [...]
TBEX 2013 will be in the happening city of Toronto, Canada in early June and I’ll be joining 750+ attendees to talk about travel, adventures, writing, photographing, blogging, and making a living with the combination. I attended TBEX last summer in Keystone, CO and was a panelist. The face-to-face opportunity was a huge success for [...]
Beth Blair, one of the co-founders of the popular travel blog for moms, The Vacation Gals, was recently contracted by McGraw-Hill to write Break Into Travel Writing. In addition to doing travel writing, Beth also has a fitness column in Shape magazine. In our interview today, Beth talks about how she’s made life work as [...]
First a quick reminder that if you’re serious about upping your game as a travel writer, blogger, or publisher, you’d be wise to sign up for our travel writing newsletter. There’s a new one going out Thursday with some good advice from me, good advice from others, resources, and maybe even a free book for [...]
Mark Smith is definitely a success story in the travel industry–his site, Seat61, which started out as a hobby, became his full-time occupation in 2007. Just this year, Seat61 won ‘Favourite Travel Website’ in the Telegraph Travel Awards 2012 and continues to grow. In our interview, he talks about taking a hobby to a full-time [...]