Welcome to my weekly check in, where I share the under-the-hood view of being a professional travel writer and the editor of In The Know Traveler. This week has been more about web servers than writing and editing. As an owner of multiple web sites, much of my time is dedicated to attempting to publish good travel content – I...
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When spring is in full bloom I can expect to start getting lots of submissions. There must be something about new warmth and clear skies that inspire people to share their travels with the world. To me, this is a good thing. This week I received almost 25 new submissions about magical places worldwide, which, I am sure, we should...
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I remember how happy I had felt when I plunked down my rucksack and announced I was a visiting writer to the lady at the check-in counter at a resort in Playa del Carmen. I was on my first assignment for my first feature travel story, ever. The story would eventually be a hotel review for resort in Mexico, which, if I remember...
read moreWelcome to part four of how to avoid the sharp ax of rejection, the dreadful epic (a phrase I am coining now). About ten years ago (Yes, ten), I went to a party where a songwriting guitar player wearing purple velvet pants performed a song about a valiant knight and a distressed damsel, who were in love. However, in the third verse,...
read moreOver the last five years, I have worked like a dog every day on making In The Know Traveler a success. During that time, I made some good choices and a million bad ones. Here are some of my biggest mistakes and how I fixed them, so you can avoid the same ridiculous organizing pitfalls. I have written everything from my perspective,...
read moreWhen my daughter was two and learning to talk, if I knew she wanted something, I got low to the ground, smiled and said to her, “Sweet Pea, try using your words.” When I watch the Bachelor (like you don’t?!) and Steve, the dashing life guard from Kansas, describes his sincere process of finding the woman of his dreams, amongst...
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