Deepest thanks to @WeAreSFJ (Society for Features Journalism) for honoring me with first place in its Features Beat Writing Portfolio competition (based on 3 stories from '22). There are so many talented journalists without jobs now, I'm lucky and grateful to be writing at all.
@CandiceRenee Hi, Candice. I go to the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference in Marin County every summer. The program is focused on words and pix, but they have accepted sponsorships from destination marketing organizations in the past. https://t.co/XnjMn5VwG1
After months of painstaking (ice-cream-eating, trail-hiking, beach-walking, bookshop-roaming, restaurant-haunting, river-rafting, ostrich-feeding) research, here are the 101 best experiences in California, according to me in the @latimes: https://t.co/jt7yJZIXOF