This week is Work In Publishing week, run by the Publishers Association. Over on twitter, you can follow #WorkInPublishing to find information from various companies who want to open up the field and attract more people to the business. So it seems wonderfully fitting to announce this week that I will be starting as a … Continue reading BLOG: Work In Publishing Week – Finally Getting an Offer
The 1st September marks one year since I handed in my dissertation and completed my MA. Perhaps the title here is misleading - the news is, there is no news. I had honestly expected to have a job by now – my opening blog in January was optimistic that I would be able to do … Continue reading BLOG: News from the Job Front
Just over two weeks into Camp NaNo WriMo, I thought I would give you all a State of the Union update. I am not quite on target to reach 50k yet this month – I should be on around 25k by now, but I only passed 21k yesterday. I’m not worried about this. There have … Continue reading BLOG: Camp NaNo WriMo 2018 – the halfway point
I have recently been through a trying time. I was coming to the end of my diary, and discovered that Paperchase, who for two years had given me everything I wanted, had discontinued the style. DISCONTINUED. I was trapped in a mid-year diary spiral after buying one when I started my MA in September 2016. … Continue reading BLOG: Dear Diary
My graduation is coming up - okay, in July, but it's good to be prepared - and I have been considering my outfit whenever I have a spare moment, because there's nothing like being a stereotype of my gender. Because I did a Publishing degree, I have decided that I wanted to make sure that there … Continue reading BLOG: Bookish Fashion #1 – Dresses and Skirts
I am a compulsive stationery shopper. I have been all my life. When I was in junior school, it was stickers; in high school I moved onto notebooks. By university, I was continually buying letter writing sets. Now? Post-it notes. In my defence, all of these have had some practical value. I wrote a lot … Continue reading BLOG: Confessions of a Stationery Addict
The end of a year always promotes reflection on what was accomplished in the previous twelve months. For me, that is always accompanied by a sense of not having done enough. There is no clear definition as to what ‘enough’ would be, only a certainty that whatever ‘enough’ is, I haven’t done it. I suspect … Continue reading BLOG: New Year, New Career
