I’ve always been an adventurer, seeking out challenges and journaling stories about my life experiences. So, with a college degree and the life experiences of a 24-year old farm girl, I scurried to the big city of Dallas, Texas, where I started a corporate job with a...

After getting the travel-writing “itch,” I studied everything I could on how to write, and how to submit query letters. I even studied photography so I could submit photos with my articles. I had to take a couple of years off to focus on my business, but after...

I live in Hartselle, Alabama, population 14,471. It’s just off the interstate that runs the length of Alabama. But except for the annual Depot Days Festival in September, and the fact that our girls’ high school softball team recently won the state championship, few...

“Individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean.” -- Author unknown. Armed with the knowledge of how to launch my travel-writing career, I left the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in 2014 highly enthused. I was ready to get my first story published and...