Making a 'yes' happen

I actually don't know what I did any differently, except that this short story was more grounded and realistic than my usual fantasy genre - that and I found it kinda inspiring (plotwise).

Here is the email I wrote and the one I got back:

Dear Rebecca Huggins,
My name is Beaulah Pragg and I am twenty one years old. I recently graduated from Canterbury University and I am working towards getting some of my writing published. So far, I have completed the draft of my first novel and one of my short stories, Bastet, recieved an honorable mention from the online magazine Allegory. Please consider my flash fiction - The Jacket with Wings for inclusion in your next issue of Black Lantern Publishing.
Regards,
Beaulah

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Beaulah,

We have received your submission "The Jacket With Wings" and are pleased to inform you that we have accepted it for publication in Black Lantern's summer issue (available for viewing in early May). We appreciate your choosing Black Lantern, and we look forward to working with you,


Rebecca Huggins
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Black Lantern Publishing

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So there you go! That's what it looks like :)

A yes! At last...

I wrote a flash fiction piece yesterday inspired by the work done by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter and an exercise in Brian Kiteley's book 3 a.m. Epiphany. It was called 'The Jacket with Wings'. Two friends checked and edited it, I read it to my dad, and then tossed up whether to submit it to Black Lantern which was a magazine I had just discovered and really liked. I thought it would be a waste of time, because the stuff the magazine published felt so much cooler than what I could write, but my friend convinced me to do it anyway - worst that could happen was that they said no.

But they didn't.

So now I am grinning like a fool and contemplating my very first YES.

Thank you to whichever awesomely force of universal goodness thought I deserved a break at this point :)

Is incredibly happy.

*hugs*
B

P.S. I will post my emails tomorrow, once I have had some sleep. (Daybreakers is not the best movie to go to bed on!)