What would it take to leave a cush tech job to embark on a crazy career path in adventure travel writing - a profession renowned for low wages?
Even more, what would it take to thrive in that new profession and become an international award-winning adventure and travel writer? And how would you deal with the cataclysmic changes in the travel industry brought on because of Covid?
In this wide-ranging interview, Jayme Moye discusses that - and a whole lot more. She’ll also talk about her writing discipline, how she systematically approached travel writing as a business to achieve fast success, and three key tips she’d give to herself when she graduated from college.
We’ll even discuss three of her favorite stories and how they came to be - including one in which she decided to not go cycling with the Afghanistan’s women’s cycling team because the Taliban had just announced they were about to start their spring offensive.
Just for some backdrop, Jayme grew up in Ohio, moved to Colorado for college, originally started her career as a computer systems data analyst, realized it wasn’t for her, and made the shift to writing.
Since then she has won:
2019 Banff Centre Mountaineering Article Award for Mountain Literature
2019 Keith Bellows Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism
2018 North American Travel Journalists Association’s Travel Writer of the Year
2017 Best Book Awards Finalist
She is also currently the Whitewater Ski Resort Writer-in-Residence in Nelson, BC.
Enjoy this inspiring and revealing interview with Jayme Moye.
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