Is this a record?

Claudia

Claudia

I sent a travel article and pictures via e-mail to an editor today (after pitching my idea and being given the go ahead to submit).  I've never done anything for this magazine before.  She replied FOUR HOURS LATER to say my article was accepted and will be published in May.  I have never ever received an acceptance this fast.  Is it a record?

Nefertari

Well done! What is it about and what is the name of the mag?

Betsie

I would say so - and well done

Tessa Tangent

Yaaayy!  Good for you; it must have been right up their street, as it were...

Claudia

The magazine is Air Pacific's inflight magazine called Islands (Fiji's airline).  The piece is about a tiny island called Namena.  The island has ancient remains from Fiji's prehistory, colonies of boobies, tropicbirds, flying foxes (bats), nesting turtles and fantastic diving on its coral reefs.  The small resort is as low-impact as feasible and I had an amazing time researching the article.

Claudia

Just thought - the trip combined my greatest loves - travel, diving and writing.  God I love what I do sometimes. 

Carol

Well done, hopefully they'll accept more stuff in future.

Jay Mandal

Well done!

Stan2

No point in doing something if you don't love doing it. Well done on the acceptance of your piece.

Tessa Tangent

Stan, you have never said something so true!

Kangaroo

Wow! Congratulations Claudia!

Butterfly

Congratulations, Claudia. When are you sending the next article?

Claudia

The editor has asked for more stuff, so just as soon as I can get out and research another interesting place.... trouble is, this is a tiny country.  Ah well.  The main thing is that I have got out of my comfort zone (I was/am writing travel articles for an English language newspaper in Spain) and when I moved to Fiji I decided it was time to try new markets instead of lazily only submitting to one editor.  This has given me a real boost and proved that I can get published in other places. 

MorbidMaiden

VERY well done!!