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On AssignmentWhen I was the littlest carny kid with Colbert's Fiesta, I was a pro at calling the people in to play my Mom's Balloon Dart. Today I'm a New York-based journalist who has successfully pitched dozens of story ideas to the editors of national magazines. My articles have appeared in such consumer magazines as Art & Antiques, Islands, and Travel + Leisure, as well as the out-of-home entertainment trade publications Amusement Business and Funworld. I'm a contributing editor of Games (“The Magazine for Creative Minds at Play®”), a contributing writer for Luxury Log Homes & Timber Frame and Country's Best Log Homes, and a frequent contributor to the National Trust's Preservation. I've also written for custom magazines produced by Pace Communications and Haymarket Publishing. My specialties include travel, the arts, and quirky subjects that evoke the razzle-dazzle of the midway. To read an archived feature on Coney Island's sideshow, Nathan's hot-dog eating contest, the Great Houdini and more, click on the article's title or the Publications link above. You'll also find links to features on the log home lifestyle, historic preservation, heritage tourism, and museums and attractions. "Short Takes" focuses on unusual or new travel destinations, including a globe-trotting landscape painter's favorite volcanoes and New York's newest national park. Reviews of my two books round out the selection. My work has been translated into seven languages. Reprint rights are available for some articles, so if you're the editor of a publication, please contact me. I'd be happy to customize a piece for your readers. I also do magazine-quality features for newsletters, snappy content for Web sites, and ghostwriting for, well, I'm not allowed to say. Ongoing projects are a travel memoir and a children's book. If you'd like to receive occasional news and previews of forthcoming publications, please sign up for my newsletter. See you down the road, Tricia Vita |
Selected WorkFeatures
Canned Wonders
Charitable competitions produce remarkable feats of Canstruction® Greetings from
Coney Island!
A former carny kid casts an insider's eye on the world's most famous beach amusement park Bet on the Thin Guy
Upon examining recent advances in speed-eating techniques, we would like to offer you the following advice... Art Awhirl!
An Empire State carousel maker's dream machine is almost set to spin Conjuring Houdini
Searching for the spirit of the great escape artist in his American hometown Step Right Up!
For one fairground art collector it's always a banner year Log Home Lifestyle
Perfect Harmony
Milled logs of northern white pine from Quebec's Outaouais forest and a holistic design system that originated in India come together in a Vedic-style chalet in the cornfields of Iowa Blossoming
in the Blue Ridge
A city girl finds a new lifestyle, a new career, and recognition as an artist in a picturesque mountain town A Natural Beauty
A red cedar home blends perfectly with its surroundings in Montana's Stillwater Valley Short Takes
Sherlock's Home
Sleuthing the mysteries of Gillette's Castle in Connecticut Molten Energy
Q & A with globe-trotting landscape painter Diane Burko, whose passion for volcanoes has taken her to Alaska, Hawaii, Iceland, and the Aeolian Islands Rediscovering
Governors Island
Among the first to sign up for guided tours of New York's newest national park were former Army and Coast Guard "brats" eager to revisit the place they once called home Stories for Children
The Ten-Woman Bicycle
"A tribute to the role of the bicycle in women's history...humorously told...wittily illustrated," Children's Book Bulletin (UK) Translations
One Thousand and One-Second Stories
A gem of early modernism by the Japanese Dadaist Inagaki Taruho |
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