Every intern's fears that work experience solely involves making constant cups of coffee and photocopying mindless sheets of paper were
quickly proven to be unfounded the very minute I walked through the doors at Legend Press.
Tom, Lucy and Lauren are a fantastic and friendly team more than willing to explain the inner workings of what they do and, most importantly, to get you involved with actually doing it.
My work experience offered a wide range of tasks from compiling contact databases for the likes of Dr Who fans to proof reading manuscripts and selling books to Waterstones and Borders - some cases more successful than others! But work progressed outside of the office too, with a booklaunch for the team's first business book; 'Morocco:
Emerging Economy of the Mediterranean,' to which Embassy members and press alike were in attendance, and also with a 'Publishing Laid Bare' conference at the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square alongside the likes of HarperCollins, The Daily Mail and The Book Depository.
As the above suggests, my work experience has literally offered a wealth of experience from a dedicated and motivated team who are quite simply making a 'legend' (excuse the pun!) out of what they are trying, and succeeding to do, with the publishing world.
All that is left to do is to offer my extremely grateful thanks to Tom, Lauren and Lucy for
having me here with them at Legend Press.
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