We are always on the lookout for interesting general articles, whether that is creativity or a special story, title pictures (including the story behind the picture), reader letters and gallery pictures etc... In the end, it is the readers who make the magazine, not us. There is always space for reader content.
Of course, we want to have experienced and well qualified contributors for all the parts that deal with information on health/biology, welfare and behaviour/owner interaction; and of course Sue Tate from Cavy Corner (UK) and Saskia from LAGPR (USA) for both the rescue side as well as their outstanding activity in welfare and education plus further regular rescue content.
However, we are just kind of the skeleton of the magazine, but the looks (or the fleshing out and the fur coat if you want to carry on with the metapher) actually come from the readers and their own piggies. Believe me, we take them very seriously because without your interest and participation, we would be dead in the water.
It's the same as with the forum; the moderation team and our information resource are kind of the forum skeleton to provide the space, grounding and the much needed ongoing maintenance on and behind the scenes but it is you, the members carrying on our forum ethos in all the little way that bring the forum alive, who make it such a special place and who keep it going and successful in the face of all the other many guinea pig forums having failed and in the face of the rise of social media.
PS: I didn't grumble too much having to postpone my already written own article about boars from a species perspective and come up with a suitable one page filler within 24 hours when the editor ran out of space to fit everything in and needed to find an extra three pages from somewhere...
Last minute changes and dramas are the less glorious side of being a regular contributor!
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I find it always arrives at the same time as my Horse&Hound magazine. So I've made a cup of tea and I'm treating myself to a GP Magazine break!
