A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I have very, very good news! Yesterday evening I got an e-mail from the associate editor at Parachute. She says that the two women I interviewed with really seemed to like me, and they want to do a "round two" with me. That is, they want me to read a summary of a book and write a few short paragraphs about it--similar to a blurb on the back of a book. This looks promising, no? Sign in to see full entry.

The post is about, quite literally, windows. There are 5 windows in our apartment: two in my bedroom, one in my roommate's and two in the living room (there are no windows in the kitchen, dining area, and bathroom). The only window with screens on it is one of the ones in my room. The other window had a window AC, as does the window in my roommate's room. I get home around 8 pm; I'm usually in bed by around 10 or 11. Because my roommate is in med school, he doesn't get back to the apartment... Sign in to see full entry.

I had a job interview yesterday at Parachute Publishing. I got the interview through a contact at Barnes and Noble, who passed my resume along to this woman who's hiring at Parachute. Parachute is a small children's company that works a little differently from other publishing houses. Parachute comes up with ideas for children's and teen books, hires authors and illustrators, and then sells the books to major publishing houses such as Scholastic, HarperCollins, and Simon and Schuster. Some of... Sign in to see full entry.

To those of you who are more seasoned bloggers... I've always wondered if, if you change your settings so that people can only view five entries at a time instead of the customary 10, you get more page views? Does it make you look like you've been more busy than you actually have been? Or are you just fooling people? As you can see, in the hope of getting more page views. I've already changed my settings! Sign in to see full entry.

Hi, again. I forgot to talk about my informational interview with the daughter-in-law of my mom's friend. This woman works at Barnes and Noble in a position created especially for her, and has been in publishing for many years. I've been using a career coach to help me, and she suggested that I Google her online, so I did. I learned that, in addition to working at B&N, this woman has worked in marketing at HarperCollins and in sales at Simon and Schuster. She also graduated from a women's... Sign in to see full entry.