Natalie Peña

Blog post #2

To address these questions, I see myself interning or shadowing with someone in a publishing company. In New York City, there are so many. There’s big companies like Penguin Random House, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, Little, Brown & Company, Picador; and indie companies such as Akashic, The Feminist Press, Holiday House, Skyhorse Publishing, just to name a few. There’s so many components to publishing a book, from writing the book, working with an agent, editing, art aspect, marketing, and then when the books make it to bookstores. I volunteered at a bookstore two summers ago so I have some idea of how that works on their end, but all the others are foreign to me. It would be cool to work a little bit with every part of the process, but ideally I would love to intern for or shadow with a literary agent or an editor/publisher. From these positions, I think I’ll be able to get a glimpse of most aspects of the publishing process.