In an earlier posting, I touched on how to sell a travel story — or rather how not to. Below is another pitch from someone who wants to write for the Telegraph. The writer has assumed (dangerously but correctly) that I’ve never been to Nashville and (dangerously and incorrectly) that I’ve never read anything about it. He hasn’t come up with a story idea; he’s just copied a few lines from the guidebook.
  Moreover, he hasn’t bothered to check the spelling of the name of the Nashville institution he mentions in his first line or of the title of the television series he mentions in his last. So why should I bother to commission him?

A few more US ideas in brief:
Nashville: home of Country Music of course, Grand Old Opry, etc., but also a vibrant city where you can enjoy live music of every variety. Other attractions are Nashville’s scale model replica of the Parthenon, complete with statue of Athena. An hour’s drive from the city in Lynchburg, in the heart of a dry county, is the Jack Daniels distillery. And Cooter’s Museum is dedicated to all things Dukes of Hazard.