writing advice Archive

The Best Travel Writing Book for the Digital Age

If you’re on the Travel Writing Success Newsletter list, you already know this, but the brand new third edition of Travel Writing 2.0 book is out now across all platforms! I didn’t post anything

Are You Creating Helpful Content, Entertaining, or Copying?

One big slap in the face that many entrepreneurs get too late is they find out that this great idea they’ve invested so much time and money in is one that makes people yawn.

Four Ways to Jumpstart Your Travel Writing Income

When I first started going to travel writer conferences back in the mid-’00s, I was just at the point where I was backing out of a “regular job” and going full-time as a travel

Ian Ord on Running Travel Tours Where Sidewalks End

Like me, Ian Ord is based in Mexico. He lives in Oaxaca, which frequently tops “world’s best cities” lists from glossy travel mags. He runs the tour company Where Sidewalks End and was one

A Conversation with Kara Williams

Kara Williams is one of the first people I interviewed in this blog, way back in 2010, and we spent time together at multiple conferences. She has written for me at two publications and