Writing for Moon Travel Guides – Acquisitions & Opportunities
What does it take to become the author of a Moon guidebook? Find out about the acquisitions process here including how to submit a proposal and any open opportunities for authors to cover specific destinations.
Note: This page is specifically for writers interested in authoring one of our print travel guides. While we appreciate those interested in writing for Moon.com, we are not accepting unsolicited travel articles, blog posts, or other web content on an independent basis.
Writing for Moon Travel Guides
What We Publish
Moon Travel Guides feature a combination of practicality and spirit, offering a traveler-to-traveler perspective perfect for planning an afternoon hike, around-the-world journey, or anything in between. Moon Travel Guides cover countries, regions, cities, getaways, outdoors, and living abroad.
Each series has a different emphasis and a different geographic coverage. At any given moment, we are looking for authors for only a handful of specific titles. The majority of our assignments involve writing a guide for Moon Handbooks, our most extensive series.
Please note that we are only looking for books that fit into our current series at this time and are not interested in the following genres: fiction, children’s books, or memoirs.
How to Get Our Attention: The Pitch
To apply for any of the available titles listed below, please send a resume, a cover letter, and up to five relevant clips to acquisitions@hbgusa.com. In the cover letter, please specify which title you are interested in and explain why you are the best person to author that guidebook. A full proposal is not required at this preliminary stage.
We will contact those applicants that we think might be a good fit for the book and ask them for a phone interview. Unfortunately, we cannot respond personally to every applicant. After the phone interviews, we will invite the best candidates to write full proposals for the project.
Please do not send general applications stating that you are qualified to write any number of books. It is rare for a writer to be considered qualified to write about more than one or two destinations, so please be specific in your cover letter about which title you are applying for and why you are the best person to write that book.
To learn more about how to get our attention, read the acquisitions editor’s article: How to Write a Moon Travel Guide.
The Work in Brief
Moon Travel Guides range in size from 200 pages to approximately 500 pages. The destination and focus of the guide determine its size, and the author typically has 6–12 months to research and write the book. Each book must conform to its respective series guidelines (we will provide guidelines only to those candidates who are selected to write a proposal). The author is also responsible for providing photos and map materials.
Destination List
We are currently looking for authors for the following destinations and topics.
U.S. & Canada
- Alaska
- Virginia & Maryland
Latin America
- Yucatán Peninsula
- Belize
- Machu Picchu
Europe
- Amsterdam, Brussels & Bruges
- Spain
- Northern Italy
- Croatia & Slovenia
Asia & the Pacific
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- Australia
Worldwide
- 100 Best Hikes of the World
Address all correspondence to:
Please do not mail hard copy pitches or proposals to the Avalon Travel office.