So you all wanted to know how I got into publishing… everyone’s story is different, everyone’s path is different. I almost wrote that mine isn’t that interesting (in that, yes, it does follow quite a boring route) but the fact is that whilst it may be a story of a girl who followed the expected… Continue reading How Did I Get Into Publishing? A PubInterns story.

This is the word on everyone’s lips at the moment: salary. For many of us in publishing, it feels like a dirty word. The fact is, we are notorious as an industry for not talking about salary enough or in the right ways. We are so uncomfortable talking about salary, and in my view this… Continue reading Book Job Transparency

We are pleased to be welcoming a guest post to the blog today, about (you guessed it) quarantine and publishing! This post is written by my dear friend Stephen, who you may know as @SirTerenceBoot on Twitter, founder of The Lit Academy. He perfectly and succinctly sums up what it means to be adrift in… Continue reading Guest Post: Publishing Quarantine – from Stephen Leach

Hello friends, and welcome back to the return of our blog! As promised, this blog post will have real stories and real viewpoints from you, our PubInterns community, about how Covid-19 and lockdown are affecting you and your potential entry into the world of publishing. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time… Continue reading Lockdown Lowdown: How do you really feel about lockdown?

Evening kids! Got another swell job for ya to apply to! Last time we advertised this post, the lucky Pubintern which applied ended up getting hired permanently, and now they’re looking for their replacement! It’s a marketing internshop with World Scientific, so if academic publishing (or science, I guess) is your bag then apply, apply,… Continue reading Paid Marketing Internship!!

Good afternoon good afternoon are we all doing well?   The chaps at Elwin Street Productions are back and this time they’ve got money for you! It’s a three month part time design position, and I’ll just copy and paste their job spec below:   Design Intern/Assistant for Book Publishing (Print) Elwin Street Ltd, a… Continue reading PAID design internship at Elwin Street Productions!

HI HERE’S THIS IT’S PAID AND AT PRINCETON UNI PRESS IN OXFORD!! I’m just gonna copy and paste what the lovely Lucy over there has sent me because she explains it better. Deadline 5th January!   Three month paid publicity internship at Princeton University Press (full-time) Location: Woodstock, near Oxford Deadline: Friday 5th January 2018… Continue reading PAID PUBLICITY INTERNSHIP AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS AAAAHHH

First of all, massive thank you to all round superstar Cassie for writing this guest post for us! Yes we know our Cover Letters post is the stuff of legend but now we actually have a real life Resourcing guru to break down what she looks for in an application. Without further ado… What are… Continue reading GUEST POST: What are Recruitment REALLY looking for in a Cover Letter?

Hello and welcome to a new guest post from one of our lovely followers! We’re open to other guest posts like this, but obviously we want to keep our blog on brand and focus and we don’t want repeats! DM us if you’ve got an idea. Without further ado… 7 Things People Don’t Tell You… Continue reading GUEST POST: 7 things people don’t tell you about job hunting

Alright y’all, it’s been over a year since the cover letters master post so I suppose we better get another one out there (apparently I’m only capable of doing one a year). And it’s been A LONG TIME COMING WE KNOW. This one is going to be A LOT harder, because really there can’t be… Continue reading INTERVIEWS MASTERPOST!