HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM TRAVEL WRITING

Practical advice on turning the dream into a well-paid reality

Sarah Woods

• PRICE £12.99
• EXTENT 176 pages
• BINDING Paperback
• FORMAT 234 x 153 mm
• ISBN 978-1-84528-394-0
• PUB DATE 27 March 2010
• BIC CODE CBW, WTL
• CATEGORY Creative Writing
• TERRITORIES World Rights

KEY POINTS

Award-winning travel writer Sarah Woods answers the question she is asked several hundred times a year: ‘how do I become a freelance travel writer?’

• A complete, practical guide to turning the dream into reality from getting started to making a decent living
• Full of tips and insider information - how to win ongoing business, secure the best rates of pay and how to deal with deadlines across different timezones
• Provides a guide to the world-wide market for travel writing
• How to write for both consumer and trade publications and how to use travel writing skills in TV, radio and film

SARAH WOODS is one of the UK’s most successful freelance travel writers. She travels around 200 days each year and achieves as high an income as she did in the well-paid job she gave up to pursue a freelance travel writing career. Sarah’s travel writing has taken her to over 50 countries, across nearly 1 million kilometers. She has lived with indigenous tribes in the Panamanian jungle, travelled on the Orient Express, scaled the world’s highest volcanoes, visited over 500 spas and worked on TV shows, films and documentaries. She also leads author tours, gives talks, and hosts events in bookshops all over the planet, from Colombia and Australia to South East Asia and Spain. * Sarah is winner of the Travel Guidebook Writer of the Year in 2005 and the prestigious Kenneth Wescott Jones Memorial Prize twice, in 2007 and 2008.

CONTENTS

• 1.Travel writing: fact or fiction
• 2.How to get started
• 3.Boosting sales
• 4.Building a brand
• 5.Expanding your market
• 6.Developing your business
• Glossary, directory of useful contacts addresses and further reading