I was at the Fränkischer Kirmipreis yesterday night.

It as mega-super awesome!!

I got my copy of Tatort Franken 4 signed by the winner.

I met the author Thomas Kastura.
He is an amazing person and super friendly! And don’t even get me started at how well he can read and write!!
Totally have to buy his short-story anthology Drei Morde zu wenig!

Also I met the author Jan Beinßen gain, who I
have met before at a reading of his newest Paul Flemming book. And he still knew who I was :D
It was awesome!

Seriously… the intern-ship for a publishing house is the best thing that ever happened to me!

The guy who collects the mail twice a week in the publishing house I work at looks like George R. R. Martin.
I swear to God, when I saw him for the very first time I just stared at him for a minute or two because I wasn’t quite sure if it was him or not. And when I told one of the others about this they couldn’t believe they never saw the resemblance.

I love my internship because what I do so far

• is basically reading almost all day
• proof-read texts
• write summaries
• say why the manuscripts are good or maybe not so good
• look if it fits the program of the publishing house
• and sometimes I write own short text passages for supporting the distribution

To be honest I never thought this could make me so tired.

Good night!

Next week my internship in the editorial office of a pulishing house starts for me.

And just like last time:
If any of you have questions about an internship in a bookstore or the work there just ask me.
As far as I can answer them, I will- if not I will ask my co-workers and find answers ;)

P.S.: Everything I write about my internship can be found under the tag #internship.There is also a link on the top of my blog where you can find all posts about my last internship.

If you don’t get payed any money chances are high that you get books for your work.

It’s easier to answer this as a list.

Also I live in Germany so it might be possible it is a bit different in other countries.

-Order books from the publishing house (—>if you want to order books for the shop. The problem here is that you eed enough books, otherwise you have to pay too much postage) or the wholesale trade (—> mostly when customers order books they want to have until the next day).

-Send back books you didn’t sell. The problem here is that you need enough books to send back and for every single book you need the approval of the publishing house or the wholesale trade. And only if you have the approval you can put it in a package and send it back to the publishing house.

-When you get new books you have to prize them (which is pretty easy in Germany because there is book-prize control) and put them in the bookshelves and (so you can look up on the computer what you have in the bookshop) you have to enter receipt of goods into the system.

-Another thing there is are so-called “Fortsetzungen” (in english it might translate to “serials”).
These are especially used for law-stuff and things that change from time to time but too often to actually print a new book each time something changes. But also book-series like Terry Prachett. So the customer who orders the “serials” has a file folder at home and every time something changes in the law they get new pages so they can take out the “old stuff” and put in the new.
For the people who work in a bookshop that means that they have to prize it, write a bill or a delivery note (depends on whether the customer gets it from the bookshop themselves or if they want you to deliver it to their doorstep).
And of course you have to tell them that a new part of their serial arrived. So you have to call them or e-mail them.
/It doesn’t sound like much work but of you have to call 15 or more people because they don’t have an e-mail address it takes its time/

-Of course while you do all that you still have to help customers help the right book (which is someties pretty hard since sometimes the customer themself doesn’t quite know yet what they want). And when they eventually buy something you have to do the work at the counter and sometimes wrap the book(s) they bought as a present.

I hope I didn’t forget anything. If I did I will change it. also if you still have question, don’t be shy and just ask :)

Tomorrow starts my internship in a bookshop.
I’m pretty excited to be honest.

If any of you have questions about an internship in a bookstore or the work there just ask me.
As far as I can answer them, I will- if not I will ask my co-workers and find answers ;)

P.S.: Everything I write about my internship can be found under the tag #internship. It is also link on the top of my blog.

In two weeks my internship in a bookshop starts.

I will try to keep you updated on that (at least once a week)!

Everything I write can be found under the tag #internship.

There is a link added on the top of my page so it’s easier to follow if you are interested.