Lottie Gross
@lottiegross.bsky.social
🌍 Travel writer 🐾 Author of dog-friendly travel books ✉️ Co-founder Talking Travel Writing on Substack 🐶 Servant to a Manchester Terrier
Together with @stephdyson.bsky.social and @travmedia.bsky.social, we're using the Talking Travel Writing newsletter to launch our latest mentoring scheme for aspiring travel writers! Details here - please share: travelwriting.substack.com/p/2025-trave...
2025 travel writing mentoring scheme open!
The Talking Travel Writing mentoring scheme is back thanks to sponsorship from TravMedia - find out how to apply here.
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As ever, @travelfish.bsky.social is intelligent and measured on the topic of responsible and more sustainable travel, and what it means in practice. An excellent read: travelfish.org/couchfish/news/less-bad-travel
Couchfish: Less Bad Travel
A new way to think about your travel
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Researching an article this morning and came across a business making blatant use of AI to populate its website with "photos". It immediately turned me off and dampened my trust in their service, so have decided to no longer include it in my article. Fair? Or am I being harsh?
I have neglected this app for several months because it just wasn't giving me interesting or relevant content – anyone got new travel writer / editor lists I should follow? Keen to get back to it! Fellow travel/lifestyle journalists, HMU! (Pic for attention, ofc)
Enjoyed this piece by my pal @lottiegross.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comme... As a child, my parents would book ferry crossings six weeks apart during the summer holidays, hook up the 'van & follow our noses: one year we ended up in Portugal, others we'd spend weeks in Italy. Great fun
How Britain fell out of love with the caravan
Our writer looks at the colourful history of the caravan and asks if it can it ever be cool again
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I love Clarkson's Farm but found Diddly Squat to be a huge disappointment. Here's where I'd rather shop / eat / drink / smooch cows in the Cotswolds www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/en...
Beyond Diddly Squat: The best Cotswolds farm shops that are worth the trip
Clarkson’s Farm is back, but his country outpost isn’t the only place you should be flocking to – from merino wool to world-famous sausage rolls, these are the Cotswolds farm shops that put Jeremy Cla...
independent.co.uk
We let ChatGPT write our newsletter today (it's free for all to read). Reckon it did a decent job? travelwriting.substack.com/p/this-newsl...
This newsletter was written by AI
No humans over-exerted themselves in the making of this newsletter.
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Sure, I've skydived solo and paraglided in the Himalaya. But have you ever successfully reverse parked a caravan at a mechanic's garage while being watched by five men? Let me tell ya, the thrills are second to NONE 💪
Very interesting discussion going on here
Tim Hannigan@timhannigan.bsky.social · last yr.Thinking about the LibGen/Meta issue. Should some writers push for print-only contracts? My longterm most successful book (widely pirated, stolen by Meta) has consistent 7:1 print v eBook sales. For my most recent (also stolen by Meta) it's 55:1! So *what was the point of publishing the eBooks?* 1/🧵
What one thing would you suggest every travel writer needs to be good at their job? We're running a series on this very topic in #TalkingTravelWriting this month, so here's my take: travelwriting.substack.com/p/just-one-t...
Just One Thing: stupidity
Inspired by the late Michael Mosely, this month's series is a Just One Thing tribute.
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Call for pitches: We're looking at launching a destination-focused newsletter at point.me, and I'm looking for pitches from writers with deep expertise in a particular city or region(live in/visit often). 🧵
Writers, this really is your last chance now! You've got until noon to apply. open.substack.com/pub/freelanc...
Last chance to apply for the FWJ New Directions bursary
You've got until midday today.
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I did a thing! I finished my third book! I am a (sort of) free woman for the next five minutes before I start writing the next one!!!! 😅🥳🐾
It's as if the freelancing gods know I am about to finish my book... Four new commissions have come in in the last week! 😅 A welcome replenish of my bank account #travelwriting
TRAVEL WRITING WEBINAR ALERT! This one should be very interesting - feel like data in travel stories is such an untapped thing! Excited to learn how to harness... travelwritingwebinars.com/product/data...
Data storytelling in travel: How can travel journalists better use insights to pitch smarter?
From cultural trends and consumer behaviour to visitor numbers and future predictions, there’s a wealth of free information at our fingertips. But are we, as travel journalists, making the most of it?
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In the Talking Travel Writing newsletter we bang on about how reading widely can help you come up with more ideas for features. Case in point for me today; just opened a new book by page three I have two new story ideas for a trip I'm doing later this year! 🙌🏴 #travelwriting
I've just done the very adult thing of making my will. Worst £500 I've ever spent 🙄
Trying to book parking at my Hilton hotel for the NEC caravan show and getting this quote no matter what dates and times I input 🙄🤣 but steep, no?
I have just meticulously planned out three months of road tripping around Scotland. 🚘26 different locations ☀️ 93 days 🚐 One 30-year-old caravan 🐾 Plus a 4 year old canine menace What could possibly go wrong?! 👀 🏴
Any UK travel writers going to IMM? We wrote some tips for your networking sessions here 👇 travelwriting.substack.com/p/how-to-mak... #travelwriter
How to make the most of IMM UK 2025
It's that time of year again! Lottie shares her tips for IMM 2025
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First day researching my new Cotswolds book and it was a corker 👏
So, THE COTSWOLDS. I am penning a book for dog owners travelling to the Cotswolds. I need dog-friendly fun to be had in the below destinations. Any PRs with relevant clients out there, get in touch - lottiecgross at gmail dot com. I'm also open to hot tips from dog owners - TIA! #journorequest
I've got 25,000 words to write across nine chapters and an introduction for my next book, all to be completed in the next five weeks. In between now and deadline day I've also got to give one uni lecture, two talks at a camping show and attend a conference in London. Can I do it!? Plz say yes.
I'm not sure yet if this site has the same community of #freelance writers eager to hear a #callforpitches as the other side, but let's see if we can't find out. @trailsmag.net is looking for pitches for Issues 10 and 11!
Here's something lovely – and free! – for writers today. A brilliant collection of pitching guidelines for UK publications. Go get 'em. 👊 ✨ freelancewritingjobs.substack.com/p/pitching-g...
Pitching guidelines for UK publications
Magazines, websites and news platforms all looking for your pitches.
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Okay I'm just back from three weeks in Mexico where I mostly sported this fetching wet-bikini-beneath-a-tee look while mainlining mezcal cocktails. Did anything happen while I was OOO? Any big news etc? Probably not, huh? 😳
Travel writers in the UK, this one's for you! Everything you need to know before making big plans this year, plus some resources from TTW. Merry new year, etc! #travelwriting travelwriting.substack.com/p/travel-wri...
Travel writer 2025 starter pack: everything you need to know
BONUS email to help you make the most of the new year
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