Final Week: Day 2

Another good day, or at least so it seemed. I used a free computer to finish my Press Release for the Time Out “Weekend Walks Near London”. When I finished I gave it to Emma to check but she didn’t have time to do so immediately. I then asked her if she had anything else for me to do, at which point she invited me to file some press cuttings. This is by far the worst job I have had to do up to this point. There are literally thousands of press cuttings lying around, probably waiting for interns like me to file away. Depressing. (Press cuttings are anything published in magazines, newspapers, etc. regarding a book or author published, in this case, by Ebury.) I don’t need to say that after about 30 minutes when Ed asked me to help him check some stock I was elated and helped him immediately.

I was even happier when I found out that the remaining order of “Salvation Creek” had come and that I could complete the mail out I had started last Friday. I never though it would reach that level. After that I got to make corrections to the Press Release that Emma managed to check and half the day seemed to have passed in a hurry.

After lunch I approached Ed concerning those flyers he had wanted me to make on Quark. He actually had time so we sat down together on the Mac. I am not too familiar with Macs yet, but I have used them once in University in a Quark crash course we had to take. Quark is an amazing program really. The kind of things you can do, combined with the overall functions of a Mac are nearly endless. The flyer concerned a book called “As Used on Nelson Mandela” by Mark Thomas and is one of those popular politics books that seem to dominate part of the consumer market nowadays. Pop-politics. It required making an attractive design and putting specific information (in this case for a special offer on it). Since we didn’t have all the info yet I just really played around with it and will hopefully get to finish it tomorrow.

Afterwards I was happy to do another mailout for Ed for a book entitled “Straight Up and Dirty”, which is in keeping with what seems to be the hottest genre in publishing. Ever since Belle de Hour: The Diary of a Call Girl was published, everybody has been more or less copying the idea. Following from that it is now becoming common to take popular blogs of women’s ‘sexual confessions and adventure stories’ and making them into books. Not much value in them other than money.