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Melinda Crow

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Covers:  travel, travel marketing, beer, wine, cruising, camping, travel gear
Doesn't Cover: solo travel, family travel, business travel
Award-winning writer of #TravelTruth & #BreakoutWriting. Visit the link below & let's break all the rules #travel #writing #travelaccomplice #travelfiction

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Before becoming a top-producing freelancer for Yahoo Travel, Crow began her writing career at the age of 28, writing for Texas Highways, 3-2-1 Contact, and Parenting, among others. In 1992, she wrote The Rockhound’s Guide to Texas, a Falcon Guide. That was quickly followed by The Rockhound’s Guide to New Mexico. Following the successes of those two guidebooks, Crow approached Falcon’s editors with a new subject– camping. While writing Camping Colorado, she developed the format for the series th…

What was your first job as a journalist?

I have always been a freelancer. My first nationally publishe story was for 3-2-1 Contact Magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

That's like asking my age, is it not?

How is social media changing news?

I think we have a constant state of information overload, making it harder to write something that people don't already know about.