Find out who won this year’s Travel Stories Competition, and why the winning entry resonated with me to become the judges #1 pick.

Using your sense of hearing creates a soundscape backdrop to your travel writing, and provides a memorable scene your reader can get absorbed into.

Do you have a partially finished memoir that has been languishing your top draw for years? So do I. Join me on my journey as I figure out the best way to write the memoirs that have been eating away at the inside of my head for years.

Your goal as a travel writer is to transport your reader to a place or time to experience smells for themselves through their stored memories, rather than just sharing how you experienced it.

This article is the first in a series of articles about using your five senses to improve your travel writing. This article introduces your sense of sight.

Here’s five quotes from Guardian Travel Writers about how to improve your travel writing. I’ve included their travel writing quote, and then provided my insights to highlight how their advice can be interpreted and used as part of your travel writing adventures

These 3 Scrivener Guest Blogging Tools will help to keep your blog writing on Track. The Synopsis, Document Notes & Project Target Window handy visual reminders, especially when you’re freelancing.

Take a look at Ramsey’s blogging survey to see (among other things) why people blog and how much time they spend blogging. How do you compare? Have you ever abandoned a blog?

The editors of Travelers’ Tales announce the winners of the Twelfth Annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Story of the Year.

Dave Chesson, creator of Kindlepreneur.com, shares his 3 favorite ways of finding a nonfiction opportunity within the travel niche you’re researching to help you write books that people are looking for.

Knowing who you’re writing for not only helps your audience but it also helps you. Being a travel blogger who is in it for the long-haul is hard work. You need to create a continual stream of content for your blog, so finding ways to streamline your content creation process is an essential step, and defining your audience will help you do that.

Here’s the entries from the sixteen finalists for the Bradt Travel Writing Competition so that you can read each one and use them as inspiration to hone your own travel writing skills. Better yet, use it as a research opportunity for your own submission to their 2018 travel writing competition!

Join Michael and Jay as they extoll the virtues of the indie author triangle of success:the right mindset, effective writing tools (that work for you), and a strong support network. #AskALLi Self-Publishing Podcast.

For the Frankfurt Book Fair Indie Author Fringe event I’m joining forces with my ALLi podcast co-host Michael La Ronn to present a session at the October 14th about being a part-time author but getting full-time results.

Great read for Travel Writing Tips: Nat Geo Traveller (UK) recently announced their travel writing competition winners. The challenge was to write a focused piece of 500 words that captured the essence of a destination alongside National Geographic Traveller’s defining features: immersive travel and authentic storytelling.

Two Author tips to get the most out of your Amazon Book Description. Find out which HTML tags you can use, and how many characters you have to play with.

Each month I’m joining forces with fellow indie author Michael La Ronn to co-host a new self-publishing show that’s part of the Alliance of Independent Authors’ weekly broadcast schedule. Here’s our first show about Writing Tools, Styles, and Challenges.

Here’s some easy to follow tips for finding and approaching host travel blogs that are looking for guest bloggers. Increase your writing experience and build your blogging brand.

“Freewriting for travel writers” is a how-to guide that teaches you everything you need to know to start your freewriting journey to help you improve the quality of your own travel writing.

There’s no better way to anticipate your reader’s needs than asking them outright about their preferences. Budget Traveler Josh provides his travel guide preferences.

Have you ever left a destination with the information you wished you’d known when you arrived? Something that was missing from your travel guide? Well now’s your chance to fill in the gaps. Let us know your Travel Guide Gap, by entering our 2017 Travel Writing Competition.

Take this opportunity to think about your writing and self-publishing goals this year. What do you want to achieve in 2017. Brainstorm your list, and then boil it down to your Top 3. Now take those Top 3 and see what actions you have to plan and achieve to achieve those writing goals.

Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), also known as National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo), is Nina Amir’s response to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which…

Writing a non-fiction book I thought I’d share my approach for creating my “How to Write a Travel Guide” in Scrivener,…

Your travel guide begins with a simple idea, which has to be expanded into a book concept that intrigues your reader, which relies on you being able to make your travel guide personal so they can connect with it.

Travel books come in two main categories: the travel guide book and the travel narrative. Let’s look at a definition of each to help you determine which you want to write.

Guest Post by Jillian Schedneck Jillian Schedneck devoted three years on a MFA in creative nonfiction writing, after graduating she moved to…

Here’s my reference page of Resources For Authors And Writers, and includes all of the invaluable tools that I couldn’t…

One of my most popular guest posts was one I wrote for the Ytravelblog titled “What to do in Bodrum Turkey“….

My article for the Alliance of Independent Authors has just been published on their Author Advice Centre blog, and includes…

Here are 7 Easy to use Travel Writing Tips. Learn how to capture your travels in words and pictures, and use all 6 senses to capture your travel experiences.

Do you want your travel guide to be fun to write, or another arduous task in your busy life that becomes a chore? To have staying power, you need to write your passion.

Scrivener is a valuable tool for non-fiction authors, and is especially useful when planning and writing your travel guide.