Shelley Pittman – Travel Writer, Photojournalist & Editor

Freelance writer Shelley Pittman has a diverse range of interests and experiences and enjoys writing in many genres. She combines her skills as a professional Chef, Restaurateur, Hotelier, and Wine Educator with her unquenchable appetite for travel and then weaves each experience into stories to share. She specializes in creative non-fiction articles about travel, culture, cuisines, and libations.

As a travel writer, she’s been featured in magazines, newspapers, online, and e-magazines including JPR Travel and Tourism, an International Travel Agency, European Life Magazine, A Luxury Lifestyle Magazine, Ukiah Dailey Journal, Drifter Planet, China Daily, New Delhi Times, and shares in-depth local attraction articles for various local Chamber of Commerce.

She also recognizes the importance of an online presence and is the editor for A Toast to Life Magazine. A travel magazine that is written by travel writers to influences followers with insightful articles and stories about luxury destinations, culture experiences, cuisine, and libations choices.

Knowing that pictures are worth a thousand words, she is a multimedia storyteller and photojournalist providing high-quality photographs to complete each story’s tale. Samples of her work can be viewed at www.shelleypittman.smugmug.com.

Shelley is available to write articles on assignment for editors. She writes well-researched, accurate and entertaining articles. She also welcomes partnerships with tourism boards, hotels, airlines, cruise lines, restaurants and sponsors of film, food, wine, and cultural events. This partnership can be in the form of brand ambassadorship, blog articles, photographs and social media promotions.

“Whether it’s with words or photographs, I love squeezing stories out of life and onto a page.”

Fall is looming, time to go shrooming.. Mendo style

November 1, 2017 shelleypittman

It is a blossom of Chanterelle, Porcini, Hedgehog, and Candy Cap bonanza.

Calling all Paddlers: 7 ways to play in Mendocino

September 9, 2017 shelleypittman

Mendocino offers endless water ways to play

Antinori blends Old and New World Wines

August 14, 2017 shelleypittman

Italy’s Antinori family history has withstood the test of time.

One day in San Fransisco

July 23, 2017 shelleypittman

Experiencing San Francisco in 24 hours

European Wines and California Cuisine It’s the perfect marriage for this seaside village

June 1, 2017 shelleypittman

A perfect marriage of wines and cuisine

PLANNING YOUR NEXT ESCAPE TO PARADISE?

August 2, 2016 shelleypittman

Dream of sailing the San Francisco Bay?

Europe sets the stage for American Apparel

June 5, 2016 shelleypittman

June 5, 2016 European Life Magazine From an exclusive tailor shop in Rome in 1945, two men, Gaetano Savini, a well-connected Roman socialite, and Nazareno Fonticoli, a master tailor trained in Savile Row, combined forces to develop what is notably one of Italy’s most famous designer suit brands. By the

A quest for perfection in California’s Wine Country

April 20, 2016 shelleypittman

Champagne in the Anderson Valley