Joan Mead Matsui, Author at Great Escape Publishing

Interviews Made Easy: 6 Quick Tips

The main difference between a travel writer and a travel journalist is the former creates content that helps a reader visualize a destination or experience and a travel journalist adds people to his/her story through interviews. During my time on the road, I’ve met travel writers from around the world. Unfortunately, not all I’ve met—novice […]

How I Found The Confidence To Take Up Travel Writing

In 2015, I thought perhaps I’d hit rock bottom. I was a stringer for a weekly community newspaper for more than six years, with more than 850 published feature stories and four Keystone Press Awards to my credit. When the number of stories I covered on a weekly basis had diminished from an average of […]