Been There-Comped That: Free Travel, Dining and Entertainment, All for the Cost of Some Ink

New updated/expanded version for 2003 Been There---Comped That...uncovers exactly where and how to make connections and contacts necessary to experience FREE exciting travel, dining, and entertainment available to writers for fun and profit. FREE press trips, media trips, FAM tours, getaways, resort packages, media events, and photo opportunities are waiting for you but you must know where to claim your golden ticket. ---Learn how and where to network with valuable tourism and media professionals

---Learn where the FREE media trips, FAM tours, VIP tickets, and press trips are and how to be included

---Learn how to use comps to generate an endless supply of article, queries, story ideas, connections, and other income opportunities

---Sample scripts, contacts, and information included in this book will show you how to succeed as an invaluable media professional. Simply follow Carmel Mooney's easy-to-follow expert instruction and soon you'll be saying, "BEEN THERE---COMPED THAT!"

Carmel L. Mooney is a travel writer, columnist, writing instructor, consultant, and radio talk show host.

Her by-lines and photographs appear in local and international newspapers and magazines. A nationally recognized writing coach and lecturer, she teaches classes and seminars throughout California on writing for publication, travel writing, and publishing.

Carmel is a contributing author of the book, Heavenly Miracles, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2000.

She is the author of numerous book for writers.

When Carmel isn’t at her computer or in her garden, you can find her and her family: visiting dude ranches, staying at bed and breakfasts, skiing, golfing, sport fishing, rock climbing, repelling caverns, ocean kayaking, at the ballet, at the theater, at the symphony, at concerts, at theme parks, on media and press trips, on FAM tours and dining at fine restaurants for free, well okay, in exchange for a little ink.