A Conversation with Kristen Gill
Kristen Gill is an adventure travel writer who believes in diversifying portfolios and creating niche markets in order to be successful. A journalist who has been featured on places like NPR, she...
View ArticleAn Interview with Audrey Bergner
Audrey Bergner started traveling when she was 18 years old and is now a full-time travel blogger, photographer, YouTube video maker, and freelance writer. In our interview today, Audrey shares with me...
View ArticleA Conversation with Nick Wharton
Nick is half of the voice behind the Goats on the Road travel blog (his partner, Dariece, is the other half!). Today, Nick talks to us about going from being travelers to traveling writers and how...
View ArticleAn Interview with Kimberley Lovato
Kimberley Lovato left corporate America to become an award-winning travel writer and author. Today she talks to us about how she got her start as a freelancer, her recent Gold Solas Award and her goals...
View ArticleAn Interview with Claudette Covey
Claudette Covey is the Executive Editor for travAlliancemedia covering Mexico, Canada and the U.S. East Coast for travel agents and consumers. Today she talks to us about how she got her start as a...
View ArticleCatching up with TravelingMom founder, Kim Orlando
Kim Orlando is the founder of TravelingMom.com, TravelingDad.com, and SheBuysCars.com and a sought-after social media and marketing consultant and authority on family travel. She is also a mom of three...
View ArticleA Conversation with Roy Stevenson
Roy Stevenson has forged a second career as an internationally acclaimed travel writer. Formerly a gym teacher, Roy began his career in travel writing in 2007 after attending a travel writing workshop...
View ArticleIs Instagram Killing Travel?
This “Instagram killing travel” article was originally commissioned by a major magazine, but was vetoed by the editor’s boss before publication and I received a kill fee. Two other print editors...
View ArticleGetting to Know Award-Winning Travel Writer Ilona Kauremszky
Ilona Kauremszky is an award-winning travel writer and a prolific contributor to many publications. She regularly pens stories for trade and consumer publications, interviewing key industry players...
View ArticleMeet Charles McCool: A Travel Happiness Advocate
Charles McCool isn’t a typical travel writer or blogger. He’s prefers to label himself a Travel Happiness Advocate! For over twenty years, he has analyzed trip planning methods and strategies, and, in...
View ArticleRevisiting Amanda Castleman
Writer and photographer Amanda Castleman specializes in travel, adventure, pop culture and the environment. Her work has appeared in Afar, Outside, Sierra, Islands, Wired, Salon, BBC Travel, Delta Sky,...
View ArticleHow to Launch a Travel Blog Right in Today’s Crowded Environment
At the last TBEX North America conference I moderated a panel called, “What I Would If I Had to Start Over Today.” The idea was to bring together a few successful bloggers who have been doing this a...
View ArticleTomiko Harvey of Passports and Grub
Tomiko Harvey is an African American Travel Blogger and Tennessee based Digital Marketer and Content Creator, the founder of Passports & Grub. She is also a wife, mom, and daughter, plus she has a...
View ArticleThe Real Story on Press Trips for Travel Writers
“I had one question about press trips, which I thought you might be able to address on the blog or in the newsletter, if you think it makes sense. I’m wondering which markets accept press trips. As a...
View ArticleDiversified Writing Income Is Essential to Thrive or Just Survive
Ever since I started this blog many years ago I’ve been preaching the need to set yourself up in a way that you have diversified writing income. Then when I launched my Travel Writing Overdrive course...
View ArticleBloggers Stuck Abroad: Lockdown in a Foreign Land
What happens when on-the-move travel bloggers and digital nomads are told to “shelter at home?” What if they are location independent and they don’t have a home? Right now there are a lot of travel...
View ArticleTips for Diversifying Your Writing Business and Income
I have written frequently about the importance of diversifying your income and having multiple facets to your travel writing and blogging business. In this time when the need for that is more apparent...
View ArticleThe Future of Press Trips for Travel Writers and Destinations
What will 2021 press trips look like? Will there be any fam trips for travel bloggers or freelancers the rest of this year? A lot of people in the industry don’t have answers to these questions and...
View ArticleHow Travel Blogs Can Win During This Crisis
The key word in the phrase “creative destruction” is the destruction part. When we’re in a massive crisis like the world is experiencing right now, there are going to be creative winners, but also...
View ArticleGetting Real With Rosemary Kimani of Authentic Food Quest
Rosemary Kimani is a culinary explorer and co-founder of the popular food and travel blog Authentic Food Quest. Together with her wife, Claire Rouger, they travel the world as digital nomads, exploring...
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