How I got published in a travel book
Getting one’s story published in a newspaper or magazine is one thing, but it getting published in an international book is something of a different level altogether. I have been published in several newspapers, but the joy right now of holding a real book with my story in it is impeccable. Here is the short backstory of how this happened. One December 2016 night, I found an online travel story writing contest by a Portuguese company called Navigator Paper . I was high on my recent 'Returning from Bhutan-but cancelled flight tickets-went to Darjeeling' story ( Read here ) Without much thought, I squeezed the episode into under 2500 characters and submitted it for the contest and forgot all about it. Nothing really ever comes out of these random online international contests. How wrong I was.
