Submission Deadlines and Guidelines - Travelers' Tales. Dear Traveling Writer: Due to the large number of submissions received we will only contact you if we decide to include your submission in a Travelers' Tales collection. Sometimes books take as long as a year to be completed following our submissions deadlines. Final decisions are made near the end of the editorial process, and all authors whose stories have been accepted are notified at that time. Travel Writing and Travel Photography. Nomadic Chick / Cubicle Dweller to Traveling Gypsy. Travelers' Tales - Publishers of Stories, Wit and Wisdom from Travelers Around the World.