How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide #1 (Plan Your Book): Create Passive Income From Your Travel Writing (ePub)

Planning your Travel Guide (Book one of a four part series) about how to write and self-publish a travel guide.

It will help streamline your travel guide writing process. I demystify the steps involved in writing and self-publishing a travel guide and provide you with the information and tools you need to achieve your self-publishing success. Your time is precious, and this planning guide speeds up your creative process.

In this first book, we focus entirely on the Travel Guide Planning Process, in 7 manageable steps:

Step One: Review Travel Guide Categories

Step Two: Consider Angles, Themes, and Passions

Step Three: Brainstorm Your Ideas

Step Four: Research Your Competition

Step Five: Reaching Your Target Audience

Step Six: Write Your Descriptive Statement and Content Scope

Step Seven: Create Your Working Title

Leverage your Blog Content

To take your travel blog to the next level, build your brand awareness and establish your subject-matter expertise, you need to expand your content offerings over and above simple blog articles.

You may be tempted to skip this planning book and dive straight into the writing phase, but the more time you spend on this initial planning phase, the greater the benefit will be in the long-run.

If you believe you have a fresh perspective or insights to bring to a destination you're passionate about, and want to earn passive income from your knowledge and expertise, this book is for you.

As a travel blogger, the most obvious path to achieving a broader reach is to leverage your travel writing skills and repurpose the content you've already created on your blog.

Downloads

You also get access to a set of downloadable workbooks, worksheets, and toolkits to help you navigate your way through all of the steps needed to plan your travel guide.

The How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide Series

Here's a summary of the other three books in the series:

How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide: PEN IT (Book 2)

As well as covering the core travel writing principles and choosing your writing style and tone, we'll also look at how to organize and structure your content, which is essential if you want to get your travel guide over the finish line. You'll discover how all the major travel guide publishers organize their content, and I'll help you evaluate the best approach for your travel guide.

How to Write and Self-Publish and Travel Guide: PUBLISH IT (Book 3)

There are many paths to publication, but I'm going to help you self-publish your travel guides in e-book and print-on-demand versions. I'll provide you with best practices and time-saving tips for getting your book into the right distribution channels, and into the hands of your readers.

How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide: PROMOTE IT (Book 4)

You will need to start marketing your book even before it's available at book retailers, but this is the fourth book in the series because you will need to define your long-term content marketing strategy to keep your book in the forefront of your readers' minds. It's a constant cycle of marketing and promotion, and I'll show you how to leverage your travel blog and social media channels to raise your book's profile.

Each book in this travel writing series covers a distinct set of activities to get your thoughts organized, together they take you from the seed of an idea to passive income stream. If you're a travel blogger looking to make more money - isn't it time you wrote a travel guide?