Placement

Day One with Ebury (Random House)

I start at 10 this once to let everybody settle in after the weekend and actually get a chance to assign me tasks. It seems that Emma, Sarah and Caroline will be my main contacts throughout this stage. For now I will be working on publicity related material, especially as Edward Griffiths will be on holiday this week and I can use his desk.

My first assignments included photocopying some Press Releases and Book Jackets to send out to Caroline’s mailing list, which was helpful as it gave me an idea who to send what to. In this case it seems to have been the main newspapers, as well as some regional ones and magazines. I also send out some proofs along with press releases, this was a smaller number and I imagine is based on positive feedback from the mailings or a similar point of contact. I spend a few hours filing spare jackets and went through some of the weekend and Monday newspapers looking for Ebury related material. My last task was to find out information on a book due to be published after the summer some time. The book was the biography of Kevin Pietersen, one of England’s recent Ashes heroes, currently playing against India.

I really enjoyed the first day but unfortunately I did not get to meet everybody at Ebury first. I did meet the head of Rights where I hope to spend some time while I am here. I like the fact that I was given various tasks by the three above mentioned members of the publicity team and was left to get on with stuff by myself.

M.M.