That brief mention of Beatrice.com, my personal literary blogging project, in the New York Times article this morning reminded me that I’ve been meaning to figure out more ways I can maintain excellent content there without sacrificing any of the energy I put into blogging about the publishing industry, and reinforced an idea that I’ve been kicking around for a while: I need Beatrice interns.
Obviously, most of the GalleyCat readership skews towards the gainfully employed, but maybe you know some enterprising journalism or creative writing major who’d be interested in (among other duties) soliciting guest essays, doing short interviews with authors, and formatting essays and interview transcripts for online publication. At the very least, such an intern would make a lot of industry contacts and, if they impress enough, earn a glowing recommendation; I’d even be willing to talk to department heads about course credit if somebody wanted to put that on the table. So if you know anybody who’d be interested, have them get in touch with me.
And who knows; if this works out for my literary venture, it’s certainly something we’d be willing to consider doing here at the ‘Cat…