Normally I check my e-mail every day at the same time. Last week I came home later than normal, and since I had only been getting junk mail in my account for the past few days, I decided to forgo my regular routine and instead go for a walk on the beach. After sunset I returned home again and then sat down to dinner. It was not until 11 p.m. that I turned on my computer to check my mail. As I deleted the daily delivery of junk mail I noticed a note from my publisher. That in itself is not unusual, but this was a request from a magazine in Great Britain that wanted to do a feature on my work for their June issue.
GREAT! I thought to my self, then I read a little further to find that they wanted confirmation and a fair bit of material by 5 p.m. that day. OH CRAP!
I started retrieving the the information from my computer that they had requested and started e-mailing it off in the hope that the 5 p.m. dead line was not a firm one. It was almost 1 a.m. by the time I was finishing up. Luckily I got a reply from the magazine the next day saying that the information that I provided was great and that they could proceed with the feature.
I got lucky this time. I could have missed out on a good opportunity for some free publicity if I had not checked my e-mail that day. NOTE TO SELF, check e-mail every day!
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