A registered nurse with over 33 years’ experience, Noreen had the travel bug since childhood when her family traveled extensively. Married to a retired Naval Officer, she then had the privilege of living in Italy enabling her to travel to 17 different European countries. Now as a travel writer, she not only travels but writes about exciting destinations like Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaiian Islands. In less than three years, Noreen’s 235 published articles have appeared in 28 different online and print publications. She is a regular contributor for four magazines. Noreen is also the pioneer of Great Escape Publishing’s Travel Writer’s Café, an exclusive writing group designed for travel writers. You can read some of recent articles below.
As a travel writer, I have enjoyed my share of complimentary stays in five-star accommodations, four-course dinners with wine pairings, and free city tours and attractions. All in exchange for published articles – and in addition to the pay. What I didn’t count on in my travel writing career was receiving free travel-related gifts. And […]
It didn’t take long after I’d completed the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program in September 2014 to understand that if I wanted to be a published writer, I simply needed to find interesting topics to write about, then decide where to send those stories. My first two stories covered exotic destinations I’d recently visited, like […]
There was just something special about that email from the editor that read “Congratulations. Your story will appear in next month’s magazine!” That response was a magic number for me. It was my 100th article accepted for publication. I wasn’t always a travel writer. For 34 years, I’ve worn the title of “Registered Nurse” with […]
The place you call home may be a treasure trove of publication opportunities. When I attended the 2014 Ultimate Writer’s Workshop in San Diego, presenters emphasized the importance about “starting local.” I took that advice to heart. How and where to find local publications is a question for many new writers. It was for me […]
Honored to have shared my success story with a group of new writers at the 2015 Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Denver, I noted a prevailing question among attendees – how to find their writing “niche” and what that means. Not hard for me to understand at all. I left the 2014 workshop in San […]
When I was a little girl my biggest dream was to fly. Not in an airplane. I mean really fly — like a bird. I would try jumping off my bed or fearfully off a roof, flapping my arms furiously in the air, certain that one time it was going to happen. Of course, it […]
I sent article queries out to several well-established in-print magazines about a California mining town with a fascinating history. Little did I expect that, within 24 hours, two of those magazines would eagerly accept the story. (Travel writing success can happen a lot quicker than you might think.) Within 12 hours, one editor responded, “I […]