How Travel Writers Self-Publish

In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale launches her new travel writing tips series. Each episode will provide a concise list of prompts from A to Z to give your travel writing the TLC it needs. We're kicking this off with letter A. 

• Audience. 

We’ll cycle through all letters in the alphabet in turn from A-Z. 

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale explores the different ways you can use Facebook to reach readers within your niche and building your mailing list. 

• Using Facebook Communities. 

All of these Facebook features are available to use on your business page at at no charge, so isn't it about time you started using this social media platform to work for you? 

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale explains why she took a podcasting break, and how she's going to fill her free time with blog maintenance tasks, blogging, and memoir writing during the Covid-19 travel restrictions.

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In this 20-minute show travel writer Jay Artale chats with blogger and freelance writer, Mariana McDougall, who traveled around the U.S. and Canada for 12 months in an RV with her husband and 3 kids. She blogged about the adventure, and is in the process of turning it into a travel memoir to show other parents that just because you have children, doesn't mean the travel adventures have to stop. Here's some of the topics we discussed:

• Blogging a Book.

If you've been thinking about writing your own travel memoir, this conversation should inspire you to put pen to paper.

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale covers tips and techniques for becoming a confident interviewer. 

• Informal Interview Scenarios.

This episode shows you how to make the most of an interview opportunity in order to bring your travel writing to life. Practice makes perfect. 

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale covers the individual elements you need to incorporate into your book description in order to grab your reader's attention and get them to click the buy button. 

• Use the ideal length for your Book Description.

Authors, you need to view your book description as a promotional opportunity, and spend time crafting a description that puts your book's best foot forward. Don't make the mistake of rushing this self-publishing step, and wasting a free marketing tool that can differentiate you from other authors in your niche. In this episode you'll also learn which free tool will help you format your book description.

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In this 20-minute show travel writer Jay Artale talks to Rachel Malek (a millennial) about the type of travel research she did when she visited, and then later moved to Italy. The goal of this show is to give us an insight into what's important to our audience.

• What research did Rachel rely on prior to her vacation and her move?

When you're writing a travel guide you have to consider your audience. The more we understand how our target audience looks for information, the better we can craft our content.  

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale looks at the two different ebook distribution options if you don't want to go exclusive with Amazon:

• Going direct and non-exclusive with Amazon, and signing up with an aggregator (Draft2Digital, PublishDrive and Smashwords) to reach retailers other than Amazon.

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale introduces the three different strategies you should be considering to publish your ebook, and goes into detail about the benefits and drawbacks of Amazon KDP exclusivity:

• What are the three different ebooks strategies? 

Jay also shares the results of a three-month test she did for the latest edition of her Bodrum Travel Guide. She enrolled it in KDP Select for a 90-day period—and the impact to book royalties came as a surprise. 

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In this 10-minute show travel writer Jay Artale delves into the five senses and how to use them to bring your travel writing to life by looking at your environment and capturing:

• What you see.

Jay has also published a series of five senses travel journals to capture your senses during your trip.

Visit the show page for this episode at www.birdsofafeatherpress.com. There is also a free PDF version of this show available on my website.