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• Apartment Tour: Part One

  Even though this blog primarily follows my literary adventures, I wanted to share what I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. When I returned from the NYU Publishing Institute in NYC I packed up a UHaul and moved to Chapel Hill, NC. Though it was a whirlwind of packing and unpacking, I’m a…

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  August 14, 2012

  Travel, Week in Pictures

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• This is the Start of Something New: Book Publishing Week 1

  The keynote speech was given by Markus Dohle of Random House. Though he is relatively new to publishing he really made all of us excited to enter the industry.* He spoke about how the industry is changing in really exciting ways – from ebooks to what comes after them. After Dohle’s speech he took a picture with…

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  July 9, 2012

  Week in Review

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• NYU Summer Publishing Institute: Final Magazine Project

  For three weeks I learned from the best-of-the-best in the magazine industry: Cindi Leive,  David Zinczenko, Pilar Guzman, Lavinel Savu, Matt Bean, Lorin Stein, and Brandon Holley to name a few. Beginning with lectures, I got a strong foundation in the basics of all facets of magazine publishing. My skills were put to the test…

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  July 8, 2012

  School Work, Week in Review

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• I Declare Myself To Be: IndieBound

  Last week the Bookstore Relations Coordinator at ABA came to speak at the NYU Summer Publishing Institute. I was so moved by his presentation that I thought I would share a little bit of it here. Declaration of IndieBound When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for individuals to denounce the corporate…

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  July 3, 2012

  Education, Week in Review

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• A Taste of What I’ve Been Up To: Inside Random House

  Today in lieu of a real post I thought that I would give you guys a taste of what I’ve been learning in my NYU Summer Publishing Institute. I couldn’t think of a better way to share than with a really amazing video from Random House. (Markus Dohle and the 2012 NYU Summer Publishing Institute Participants) The…

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  July 2, 2012

  Video, Week in Review

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