Starting today, I am offering my services to hotels as a writer-in-residence.
These are tough times for writers as well as for hotels (see below) so wouldn't it make sense if we joined forces? How many times have you stayed in a wonderful hotel and thought: This place is great, but I wish they had a writer on call.
That's where I come in. I will sit at a desk in the lobby, working on my blog, articles, books. But I will be ready to stop in the middle of a sentence to help guests with postcards, e-mails, memoirs, tweets. (Travel writers have a way with postcards.) I will share great leads. I will edit gently. I will make myself available for drinks in the bar.
Every hotel is trying to find the next new thing that will distinguish it from its competitors. This is it. Imagine coming home from a trip and telling your friends that your hotel had a writer. (People are so tired of hearing about spas.) Even if you didn't make use of the services, your vacation was enriched by the sight of someone in the throes of literary creation.
Of course, a writer-in-residence is not for every hotel. I don't see it working at the Fountainebleau, or the Delano. But surely the Biltmore, the Raleigh, the Breakers, the Ritz.
I await their calls.
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