August 24, 2009 • 10:59 pm
5994 views since June 2008 and it’s about time to finish up with this blog. I’ve well and truly exhausted this theme.
I’m still going to be looking and trying for a job in publishing but ah, there’s only so much you can say on it eh?
So instead please check out this little publishing project I’ve made a start on – Disconnect, Disconnect Books. There isn’t much there at the moment but hopefully something will materialise in September/October/November or so.
Hah.
Thanks for reading.
Robert.
Filed under: career in publishing
Wow, Marian’s approach to getting a job in publishing is superb.
http://marianschembari.com/
And look what was said by harperstudio.
I need to sort it out and stop putting up pictures of the Labour Cabinet and start being more professional.
Filed under: career in publishing, how to get a job in publishing , how to get a job in publishing
I had an interview recently for a job in publishing but I didn’t get it. I had, and still have, mixed feelings. It’s a mixture of making progress and feeling disillusioned. It was the first publishing job I had applied to in a while so I’m glad I wrote a cover letter good enough to interest the company. I certainly think the publishing work experience I’ve had helps. The role was for a reputable academic publisher and was going to be a challenge, and so I was naturally disappointed they didn’t want me to go back for the second round.
This disappointment has been simmering for the last week or two and I’ve been having doubts about the whole getting into publishing thing. Is it really for me after all? Fortunately this mood was captured most unexpectedly in a Telegraph column today.
The Labour party and The Conservative Party are to have their conferences in September which will effectively kick-start the election campaign. Gordon Brown and David Cameron will need to emphatically answer our question “Why should I vote for you?” Mr Brogan had this to say:
In the case of Mr Brown, ….. his friends …….. have come to the view that he has never worked out why he wanted the job. Mr Cameron, in contrast, has the answer but has yet to find a compelling way of communicating it to the voters. [Benedict Brogan]
My problem is that I’m like David Cameron. In an interview I can’t communicate my passion for publishing. I know I can’t.
When I feel like Gordon Brown I want to give up and don’t really see the point in trying to apply for a job. What I needed to get out of this kind of episode of self doubt was a new approach, and today I found it. It is to think of a job interview as like answering “Why should I vote for you?” I’ll see how that goes hey.
The third in what seems to be becoming a series of youthful photos of the Cabinet. Watch out for more to come. Image courtesy of Neil
Filed under: career in publishing, how to get a job in publishing, work experience , career in publishing, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, interview, publishing jobs, publishing work experience
Today I joined up as a DailyLit Extern after seeing a note in BookBrunch. I’m still playing catch up and figuring out what it’s all about so here is Bailey Thomas (http://baileythomas.wordpress.com/), who is a summer intern at DailyLit, to explain.
I pick a topic that I may not know a lot about, and I think other people would be interested in. Then I do a bumload of research, which includes your typical ho-hum library research (ok, probably ho-hum Internet research) and then some personal, polling, one-on-one, one-on-forum Internet research, and then whatever else I feel like doing – basically, I find out as much as I possibly can about my topic until I flop over dead from knowing so much about it.
Then, at the end of the summer, my project will be listed as a downloadable “book” from DailyLit, and you’ll be able to subscribe to it and receive one of my installments every day.
I reckon this is definitely worthwhile as I think there is a good chance of learning some digital publishing skills. Hope I’m not too late.
Here I am on the DailyLit social network. http://dailylitexterns.ning.com/profile/RobertSullivan
Filed under: Publishing Skills, Social Media, career in publishing, digital publishing, how to get a job in publishing, work experience , DailyLit, DailyLit Extern, digital publishing, digital skills, publishing work experience
I am looking for a short story to publish with another short story I have been granted permission to publish.
I will pay £100 and royalties every six months.
Publication date will be Sunday 22nd November 2009.
Any ‘genre’.
I have never published a book before.
I will learn as I go.
Please send the first paragraph and total word count through the Contact Me page or leave it as a post.
Thank you kindly for your time.
Robert
Filed under: Books, Publishing, Publishing Skills, Writers, career in publishing, how to get a job in publishing , short story, submissions
How amazing does Onix Administrator sound? ” I am the Onix Adminstrator.”
Plus you would be working for the people behind Snowbooks. I am like a teenage girl at a Blue concert in 2002.
Filed under: Technology, career in publishing, digital publishing , publishing jobs, Snowbooks
- Probably 2001
2003
Bit of divergence from the norm with this one. Date unknown.
could be from 2006
2007
2009
Filed under: Uncategorized , David, Hair, Miliband
This Monday 27 April I am going to The Book Club Boutique for the launch of Punk Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired By Punk.
Filed under: Uncategorized , Book Club Boutique, Punk Fiction
