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May Day Checking In
May. 5th, 2018 10:22 pm Term 2 is just about finished, once I got this essay out, and so it'll just be me, a dissertation, and a lot of events that I hope to fill out my time (publishing related)
Back in April, I attended the London Book Fair, where authors, people in sales, representatives of international and local publishing houses come together to buy and sell rights and get the intel on what is the next prospective hit in the publishing world. The theme for that event was the Balkans, which means many panels and events revolving around what's new and innovative about publishing from the Balkan countries such as Latvia, Estonia, and so on.
It was a good walk around the convention center in Olympia, London; I went to a lot of events targeting networking and the Society of Young Publishers where people trying to get into publishing come in to talk with hiring managers and people in publishing about how to get a damn entry-level job there.
Pretty sure no one is going to get me a visa sponsorship to work in the UK tho. Curse you, big name publishers! Penguin Random House can be like "oh our pay gap is actually much more equal compared to other big names (cough cough Harper Collins), but they're like "oh... we don't mention at all how to get international workers here." Big sigh.
I'm also going to Book Expo at the end of May which is at New York City, where hopefully I'll get more out of it in terms of career prospects, but also I'm looking forward to all the events that are going in the three days there. I'm particularly looking at Children's Lit and Graphic Novels, so Oni Press and indie publishers are having booths and talks there that I'm going to attend. I'm also looking at Romance-focus publishers too, since when I was doing my essays and my group projects, I didn't know how enjoyable it really is to work on something you really love and felt an affinity towards.
So I'm gonna try to learn more about publishers that focus on genre lit, but I really want to focus on Children's publishing since it seems like more people are willing to try new things with it.
Back in April, I attended the London Book Fair, where authors, people in sales, representatives of international and local publishing houses come together to buy and sell rights and get the intel on what is the next prospective hit in the publishing world. The theme for that event was the Balkans, which means many panels and events revolving around what's new and innovative about publishing from the Balkan countries such as Latvia, Estonia, and so on.
It was a good walk around the convention center in Olympia, London; I went to a lot of events targeting networking and the Society of Young Publishers where people trying to get into publishing come in to talk with hiring managers and people in publishing about how to get a damn entry-level job there.
Pretty sure no one is going to get me a visa sponsorship to work in the UK tho. Curse you, big name publishers! Penguin Random House can be like "oh our pay gap is actually much more equal compared to other big names (cough cough Harper Collins), but they're like "oh... we don't mention at all how to get international workers here." Big sigh.
I'm also going to Book Expo at the end of May which is at New York City, where hopefully I'll get more out of it in terms of career prospects, but also I'm looking forward to all the events that are going in the three days there. I'm particularly looking at Children's Lit and Graphic Novels, so Oni Press and indie publishers are having booths and talks there that I'm going to attend. I'm also looking at Romance-focus publishers too, since when I was doing my essays and my group projects, I didn't know how enjoyable it really is to work on something you really love and felt an affinity towards.
So I'm gonna try to learn more about publishers that focus on genre lit, but I really want to focus on Children's publishing since it seems like more people are willing to try new things with it.
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