Journal #1 Internship

Spanish Intrigue, the first volume of the L&L Mysteries
by Wendy Lohr, one of my supervisors

I’d been planning my internship months before I started it and actually had several opportunities to me with my supervisors ahead of time which was so helpful in working out all the details for this semester. Where I work is a small editing and publishing company out of Gerrardstown, WV called Cressen Books, LLC. Operated out of their home office, Cressen Books, LLC was incorporated in 2010 and since then has published several novels from multiple authors. In my experience, I have been meeting with my supervisors not only to help them edit manuscripts of novels, but also with editing and help to write my own novel. My supervisors thought that it would be important for me to write a manuscript so I would understand first hand what authors go through in novel development all the way up through the editing process. Already, the have been showing me how to use different editing techniques and other programs such as Adobe InDesign, which the Wycloff article mentions is key in a career in Desktop Publishing. As of this week, I am still learning the editing process and how to use Microsoft Word more efficiently for novel and text editing. I have been working many independent hours to write and develop my own novel. I also attended a marketing seminar with my supervisors to gain new skills for their small business. Through these first experience, I have only confirmed that this is definitely the career path that I want to pursue, but I also realized that there is a definite level of professionalism that must be learned in our very relaxed environment. This internship requires alot of personal dedication and hours because I am producing a very personal product.