What I learned while interning at Bloomsbury.

So from the beginning of June until the end of August, I spent three days a week in New York City, working as an intern for the marketing department of the adult division of Bloomsbury USA. It was exceptionally fun and I was able to learn a lot in terms of how a publishing company operates and who has clout and what systems are used and stuff.

Here, however, are the most important things I learned while I was working there:

• Everybody loves baked goods. When they unexpectedly appear in the office, people get happy.
• There is equal love between tea and coffee.
• Nobody cares what your hair looks like. It can be short or long or bright blue and nobody will comment. It only matters for meetings.
• Do your job well and everybody will like you. Do it poorly and they will gossip horrendously about you after you leave the company.
• There is free time. You can derp online, but reading is highly encouraged.
• When there are tech issues, people run around like headless chickens.
• Freshly printed books smell really good.
• Book people are nerds. Bringing up Game of Thrones or Harry Potter in a conversation could pay off.
• More books are sold after the author is on Stephen Colbert than if the author goes on John Stewart.
• You don't have to like every book you publish.
• Covers matter.
• Interns are actually helpful.

While I will miss interning at Bloomsbury, I'm happy to be at school again! Thanks to everybody at Bloomsbury* for making my summer a bit more interesting!

If anybody has any questions about what it was like to intern at a publishing house in NYC for the summer, I'd be happy to answer as best I can!

* I did not review any Bloomsbury books while I was interning there. Now that I'm gone, it's a free-for-all. Time to see if I'll hate or love Throne of Glass...