Getting Hired as a Travel Writer
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You will have a blast writing
a travel guide. You will visit places you’ve never seen before, and see
places you’ve already visited through different eyes.
You may be hired to write a
travel guide even on a topic that is already well covered. Just look at
the section on Italy, where my books The Italy Guide and The
Rome Guide, are located. That section is swamped with entries. I am
constantly amazed that my books even get noticed. But they do, to the
tune of thousands of copies sold every year. The same could happen to
you.
There are more than 350
travel guide publishers, so if you want to write or update a travel
guide, there are plenty of opportunities.
Getting Hired to Write a New Guide
Andy Herbach and his partner
Michael Dillon came up with the idea for a series of pocket-sized
guidebooks to help travelers translate foreign language menus more
easily. The idea came from their own experiences. They had difficulty
translating menus despite their proficiency in Spanish and French, and
realized that others would as well.
So combining their skills –
Andy’s the writer and Michael’s the graphic designer – they created the
Eating & Drinking
series of guidebooks, which have been a
rousing success. If you are ever going to a Spanish, French or Italian
speaking country, pick up one of their books. It can make you less
apprehensive at meals, and allow you to enjoy them more.
Basically what they did to
get published is what every prospective author can do when they have an
idea for a book, whether it is a travel guide or not. They did their
homework, created a powerful proposal, and got hired.
The following four steps will
help get your own travel guide published:
1. Create a list of
travel publishers
2. Create your
proposal material
3. Contact the
publishers by sending them your proposal material
4. Once hired, start
writing the book
As you can see from these
steps, just as in attempting to get published in a periodical, it is
best to do all your homework up front, pitch the idea, and only after
getting hired to start writing your travel guide. It worked well for
Andy and Michael, it worked for me, it can work for you too. In the
sections that follow you will find out where to get contact information
for publishers, and how to prepare a proposal.
Getting Hired to Update a Guide
While publishers prefer to
hire people with previous experience to update guides, you can break
into this field by first getting experience writing travel pieces for
newspapers or magazines (covered in the previous section of this
guide). This shows that you can write and research, and researching is
the key to updating guidebooks.
Each will have their own
selection process, so be prepared to have to fill out forms, do phone
interviews, submit writing samples, etc. This is a very competitive
process, so remember to put your best foot forward through all these
trials. You may know that you are a brilliant writer and a dynamite
researcher, but they won’t until you show them.
The information in the next
section will give you some tips on the kind of information publishers
want to see.
The above is only a small sample of the valuable
information in the FabJob.com Guide to
Become a Travel Writer. The guide
includes detailed information about writing travel guides, and also
explains how to get hired to write travel articles for newspapers and
magazines.
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