found a summer

I am the summer intern at Prometheus Books in Amherst, NY. I will be working mainly in the editorials department. I will be learning to proofread and copy edit this summer in a little office in the library at the publishing company. I am to be given a brief overview of the daily office atmosphere of a working publisher. I am terrified, but really excited. I start on the second of June. AHHH!

Prometheus Books publishes mainly non-fiction books for the educational, scientific, and professional markets. They are the leading publisher for topics of secular humanism and science of the “skeptical nature”. They publish, on average, 100 books a year, so during my time at Prometheus, 16 books will be published!

I am becoming a real person, and I couldn’t be more excited. I thought this summer was going to be a total bust. I didn’t think I would be doing anything more than [maybe] a part-time job at a fabric store. I am starting my professional career; even if is the form of an unpaid internship. I’m not going to be lying around watching reruns on basic cable. I am doing something real, now.

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