If you want travel writing with both a broad reach and award-winning results, you’ve come to the right place.
A Wide Variety of Venues
- As a freelance writer and photographer I’ve published work in Smithsonian magazine, Travel Channel affiliate iExplore.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, Travelers’ Tales’ The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The Sun literary journal, and other venues.
- I have been an invited reader at San Francisco’s LitQuake (for three years) and at the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica (speaking to more than 2,000 paying attendees).
- I have read many times in bookstores, libraries, cultural centers, museums, and at the national Adventure Travel Expo.
- I publish Travel Writers News, an online resource for travel writers and photographers. Its Alexa traffic rankings (452,979 worldwide, and 96,056 in the U.S. in November, 2013) put it in the top 1.5% of all websites worldwide. Its open rates are well over twice the industry standard, and click-through rates are more than three times the industry standard.
- I have taught classes in:
- Travel Writing (San Luis Obispo County Junior College District, CA)
- Marketing with New Media (San Luis Obispo County Junior College District, CA)
- Self-Publishing (San Luis Obispo County Junior College District, CA)
- Developing destination-based mobile applications (San Francisco, CA)
Award-Winning Content
- My literary essays have garnered many awards, including:
- Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Gold Award in the Cultural Tourism category (2013). Judges said, “This wonderful story of human endurance and perseverance in Croatia is masterfully told…. The author’s touch is light and endearing, and her story stays with you throughout your day.”
- Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards (multiple)
- Bay Area Travel Writers’ Best Travel Article/Essay for Planet Earth (Gold Award for travel writing that helps to sustain or enhance the unique and valuable character of a place).
- Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference awards (multiple)
- My nature photography won 1st place in the Smithsonian’s annual international contest, which received more than 60,000 entries (2010).
- My travel app about the San Francisco Waterfront (available for iPhones, iPads, and android devices) is 5-star rated in the Apple iTunes store (2010-2013).
