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Speak Up
“Speak Up” is a guest blog post by Hanover College‘s third-year English Studies student, Alyssa DelPrete, whoĀ dreams of making it in the publishing industry. She left her comfortable small-town life and traveled to Philadelphia for the fall semester, obtaining an internship in editing and being immersed in the world of publishing through The Philadelphia CenterĀ (TPC). “This experience is already changing me, and I canāt wait to see how I transform over the course of the semester,” says Alyssa.
This past Thursday, I had a meeting with both my TPC advisor and my internship supervisor. Not knowing exactly what to expect, I found myself standing nervously beside Mark, my TPC advisor, as we waited for my supervisor to return to her office. As Mark flipped through the recent issues of Book Business and Publishing Executive, the two publications done by the group at NAPCO that Iām interning with, …