TS Today - Creating a Vision for the Future of Vacation Ownership Issue #159 May/Jun 2018 | Page 9

TimeSharing Today READ THIS Page 9 Writers’ Guidelines We encourage readers to write for TimeSharing Today. Use normal text – NO ALL CAPS. Send articles via email as attachments. Microsoft Word is preferred. Regular mail is acceptable. No faxes. Categories: Articles 750-1,500 words, on any relevant topic. If in doubt, query first. FocusOn Resort Reviews, 1,000-2,000 words. Write a detailed description of the resort (including unit amenities) and the destination area, including your opinions. Remember, it’s a review. Letters to the Editor, under 500 words. End with your name, and where you live. TSToday Anywhere, send a photo, and a caption stating who is in the picture, his/ her/their home town(s), and the resort’s name and location. Include a byline and/or a brief author’s biography for all written submissions. Indus- try professionals provide your name, title, company or resort, location. Consumer readers provide your name, where you live, and (if relevant) the timeshare resort(s) where you own. Put this information after the title of your article. If you write about sharing an experience with a spouse or friend, please include that person’s name and relationship to you, i.e., my wife, Judy. We reserve the right to edit articles and letters submitted for publication. TimeSharing Today acquires all rights to original text material, and will consider reassigning subsequent rights on request. Email: [email protected] Subject: Articles. Mail: Editor, TimeSharing Today, 140 County Rd., Suite 114, Tenafly NJ 07670. May/Jun, 2018 READ THIS Photo Guidelines Shoot photos at the highest pos- sible resolution, 1 MB or more pre- ferred, over 250 KB acceptable, any- thing less is problematic. Send photos as jpg attachments, NOT pasted into the body of an email. Send full-size photos, NOT thumb- nails. Send multiple large images using a file-transfer service such as https://www.transferbigfiles.com/ or wetransfer.com. Both are free and both can handle gazillions of large photos in a single transmission. DO NOT send photos on paper. Send only images for which you can grant us one-time publica- tion rights without violating anyone’s copyright. Provide photo captions and credit information in the digital article file or email body. 2018 Contest: Anything Goes In recent years our annual TimeSharing Today contest has focused on a specific topic. For 2018, anything goes. Write about what strikes your fancy, as long as it has something to do with timesharing and vacation ownership. We’re looking for creative expression, originality, and vivid prose that sweeps readers along with you wherever you care to take them. Write about your travels, your concerns with some aspect of the industry, a problem you’ve solved—or whatever. Surprise us, in an article of 750 to 1,000 words. Relevant photos are optional but welcome. Before you send them, please review our photo guidelines. Email articles and photos to [email protected], Subject: 2018 Anything Goes. The deadline is December 31, 2018. The first- place winner will receive a $300 prize. The runner-up will receive a $200 prize. The publisher and editor of TimeSharing Today will select the winning entries. www.tstodayjoin.com: Start or renew memberships, place ads, order document kits and more