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Tag Archives: publishing
Ryan Gosling: Publishing memes
There is this fantastic Tumblr that posts memes of Ryan Gosling being hot and saying clever/sweet things that girls/boys in publishing want to hear. I wonder if he’d put the TOUCH in my Kindle. *scandalous*
Breathing Lessons
Title: Breathing Lessons Author: Anne Tyler Publication: Knopf 1988 Rating: 4 stars Like I said in my last post (that I posted like 3 seconds ago), I read Breathing Lessons during my hiatus from work in all of ONE day. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Tyler, books, Breathing Lessons, D.H. Lawrence, family, novel, novels, photos, publishing, reading, The Rainbow
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Are books on their way out?
When I tell people that I work in publishing, they tend to say one of two things: Awesome! I have this friend who’s just a phenomenal writer!! Would you like take a look at his manuscript?! or Is that like … Continue reading
Posted in Book Life
Tagged books, digital, e-readers, film, film adaptations, Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre, job, manuscripts, Michael Bourne, movies, novels, on their way out, Publisher's Weekly, publishing, Wide Sargasso Sea, writers, writing, youtube videos
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Publishing Course
Last week was super busy! At work, I had a PR conference and then I had to help my boss with her publishing course. At the PR conference I was convinced that I should change the way I view twitter … Continue reading
Posted in Book Life
Tagged Arkansas, authors, books, In Her Wake, literary agents, Nancy Rappaport, publishing, vacay
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Your Creative Brain
I just spent the last 20 minutes writing a long post about my meeting with Dr. Shelley Carson yesterday and about her awesome book (Your Creative Brain). You can tell this is not that post because the tags below make NO … Continue reading
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Tagged books, brainsets, creativity, Dr. Shelley Carson, editing, freshman, PR, publishing, self-help, The Naked Roommate, Your Creative Brain
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Personality Test
So, someone called me out on my personality category today (you introvert, you!). It’s been a while since two of my college friends made me take a personality test. All three of us ended up being INFPs, which doesn’t surprise me one … Continue reading
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Tagged college, editing, freshman, friends, INFP, personality test, publishing, teacher, writer
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Mass-market PB v. Trade-market PB
What I learned today: Mass-market paperbacks (PB) are like Romance-novel-style books and Trade-market paperbacks are like normal people books. When a book first comes out in paperback, it is almost always in trade-market form. Part of my job involves being … Continue reading
Self-googling
When I was about 18, I started hearing my friends talk about googling people. Especially, googling boys that asked them out on dates–just to be sure they had no record of being a serial killer or having committed some other … Continue reading
Real Life
I started my new job with HHP yesterday and am currently in training (but on my lunch break–don’t worry I’m not already slacking off). The job requires a little bit of administrative/secretarial work and a dash of book editorial work … Continue reading