Days in the Life of a Workman Intern: Part 2

Jennifer here, Workman’s traveling summer intern! Last week I told you about my stints in the Gift Sales and Special Markets departments. Read on to find out about my time at Algonquin Books, the fiction and narrative imprint of Workman Publishing.

I spent a lot of the day filing title-specific material like cover proposals and reviews. I also got to sit in on an editorial meeting in which the editors up here in New York discussed prospective novels with their counterparts in North Carolina—Algonquin is originally based in Chapel Hill and still has an office there. One of the great things about being at a more compact publishing house like this one is that even an intern like me is able to interact with the people in charge. Where else would a high school intern be invited into the publisher’s office to sit in on an editorial meeting—and asked her opinion of the proceedings afterward? (Another plus is that there are fewer people to snatch up books in the “Help Yourself” box, so I’ve been able to get books like the fantastic Algonquin title The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, which I finished just yesterday.)

So now you know what I did in Algonquin’s editorial department. Come back next week to find out more about the differences between fiction and nonfiction publishers, when I take a journey into Workman’s editorial department!

—Jennifer