Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money

How to Make Money Storytelling Your Sailing Adventures

Lin Pardey, circumnavigator and world-renowned sailing author, knows what nautical readers and viewers enjoy. Join Lin in her course, Storytelling for Sailors. Learn:

• What readers and viewers want from you
• Ways to catch editors’ attention
• How to prepare your written work so it gets published
• Which photos and video footage will sell your stories
• The how-to’s of traditional and self-publishing
• The many reasons to blog and podcast
• Making and selling long form sailing videos
• Pitfalls and potential of starting a YouTube channel

Watch Pardey Sailing Videos for excellent examples of how-to videomaking.

Presented by Lin Pardey and Friends

Running time: 9+ hours

Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money includes everything from Lin’s all-day Cruisers University seminar plus video interviews with  writers, videographers, and media marketing experts.

Special bonus – a preview of Lin’s next book with editors notations.

Through her own video narratives and conversations with eleven special guests, Lin shares tips and ideas on what nautical readers and viewers want to know – and publishers want to see.

Storytelling for Sailors Seminar viewers learn ways to ensure their photos, diagrams and video footage add information to their stories and attract attention.

For those interested in selling articles to print and online magazines, Storytelling for Sailors shows you how to:

• get noticed by editors
• ways to present work that sells
• ideas for expanding your markets

Good Jibes Podcast – Episode #77:

Lin Pardey on Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money
By Nicki Bennett | February 7, 2023

Nicki Bennett, is joined by Lin Pardey, who returns to Good Jibes for a second time.
Lin has sailed over 200,000 nautical miles, 2 circumnavigations, and many more adventures of a lifetime with her late husband, Larry Pardey.  Lin talks about her new course, Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money. Hear how new storytellers can stand out, inserting content creation into your cruising life, how to build and keep an audience, updates from Lin’s life over the past year, and her 2022 induction into the National Sailing Hall of Fame.

Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money gives you expert insight and teaches you how to tell your story in a book, a series of articles, or a blog. Our team of published authors and editors will tell you how they successfully use storytelling to publish their writing and how you can too!

Herb McCormick

Senior Editor
Cruising World Magazine
Editing sailing magazine articles.

Fatty
Goodlander

Author, Circumnavigator
Why self-publishing is his first choice.

John
Kretschmer

Accomplished Sailor & Writer
Traditional book publishing stories that teach.

Michelle Elvy

Prize-Winning Editor, Author
Choosing and working with a book editor.

Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money shows you how to create a sailing brand that “sticks” – the key to making your articles, blog, or YouTube channel successful. Our branding and social media marketing crew will explain how you can use storytelling to create a brand people care about.

Behan Gifford

SV Totem
Author, Circumnavigator
Making blogging work for you and your family.

Erin Carey

SV Roam
Roam Generation PR
Creating your brand.

Marissa Neely

SV Avocet
Fairwinds Media
Using media marketing consistently and successfully.

Storytelling for Sailors to Earn Money teaches you the real potential financial returns and the possible pitfalls of combining your story with your cruising life. The upsides and the costs are clearly laid out by experienced video experts and YouTubers.

Paul & Sheryl Shard

Distant Shores
Sailing Adventure TV Series
TV Broadcast, YouTube, Video Tips

Tory Salvia

SV Sparkle Plenty
TheSailingChannel.tv
Video Editing, Cloud Storage,
Long-Form Video Distribution.

Eric Epstein

Highwater Media
Tricks with drones to make your videos stand out.

Desiree and Jordan

SV Atticus YouTube, Sailing Atticus Success tips for YouTubers.

Brett and Jade Evans

SV Evans YouTube, Expedition Evans Starting your YouTube adventure.

Video discussions add in-depth information on these specialized fields

• Our special guest authors and editors cover book creation and publishing, including the realities of self-publishing vs traditional publishing.
  Media experts discuss online media production, distribution, and how to keep viewers watching your YouTube channel.
• Lin and her guests give you a clear picture of what returns you can expect – along with the pitfalls and the practicalities of adding writing, blogging, photography and video making to your cruising life.
• Lin interviews several other cruisers who are successfully earning cruising funds with blogs, books, YouTube channels and podcasts.

Episode Teasers