Ok, so I am going to be an editor. Hopefully, in children's publishing.
One huge part of the publishing business is networking. So, I am telling everyone (all 6 of you who read this) that you should tell anyone you meet that you have a friend/sister/daughter/cousin/niece/acquaintance who wants to be an editor. Mention it any way you want to. In casual conversation, with a sandwich board around your neck, on your voicemail, you get the picture.
Ok, really you can just drop it in if you happen to be talking about anything in the publishing industry. You never know when that person who saw your sandwich board will come back to you and say hey, I work at an awesome publishing house and I think I'd like to meet your friend/sister/daughter/cousin/niece/acquaintance. You never know.
On a similar note, I am taking a class from Rick Walton (I'm also interning for him) called Survey of Children's Publishing and basically we have professionals (authors, editors, illustrators, agents) that Rick knows somehow (he's written dozens and dozens of books) come and talk to us. So far we've had Allie Condie, Lisa Mangum, Brandon Mull, Will Terry, Jed Henry, and Nathan Hale. The class is once a week for 2 & 1/2 hours so we have plenty of time to pick their brains and find our what the business is really like. I am loving this class!!! It is so great to meet all of these people. Today I got Nathan Hale to sign my copies of Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack.
On a rather different note, I've been thinking a lot about graphic design lately. A couple of months ago I bought the Adobe Creative Suite (not the entire thing, just the standard package) and I've been having waaay too much fun playing around with it. I started using Adobe products because I took a print publishing class where we used InDesign and have since taken an Illustrator and a Photoshop class. I keep spending
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| Logo for a fake business |
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| Our Family Christmas Newsletter that I created |
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| A challenge I received from a friend on facebook |
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| I was just playing around with color. Should I be a red head? |
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| I made this as a bookmark for my friend, Natalie. |
On another note entirely, I started a new blog. It's about Latin. I've decided to post once a week and I already have like 10 ideas for posts, so there should be a steady stream there. Check it out. You'll definitely be able to impress your friends at parties.
5 comments:
Wow! You're going to be an editor? Where? Congratulations! Will you be moving to NYC, or Boston?
Jed
Jed, thanks for commenting! It’s nice because, as you can see, no one ever comments on my blog. :)
Well, I’m applying for internships now so I’ll have to get back to you about where I end up moving once I finish school and get a job. However, I definitely would love to move to NYC.
Soooo...i didn't realize you had a blog?
Anyways, i found it on Jopes & Elizabeth's blog page.
Okay. Here's the deal. My dad has worked in the publishing business for about 20 years now. A lot of that time, he's spent as an editor. Cool, huh. It wasn't a publisher for children's literature, but he still knows a thing or two.
Anyways...just FYI. If you ever have an editor/publishing related question, i have an expert i can ask. :)
And, you graduating from BYUI? Any luck on the internship offers?
OH, and that red color of your hair (in the picture you were playing around with) looks really nice! Seriously.
Aisling,that's really great about your dad. I'll definitely let you know if I have any questions for him.
Also, I only went to BYU-I for one year. This is my third semester at BYU (after three wonderful semesters at UVU) and I will be graduating in one more year. Crazy!
Thanks about the red hair! If only changing the color of hair were as easy as putting a hue/saturation adjustment on a picture. . . .
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