a surprise in the slush pile Friday 27 April, 2007

I was given the task of looking though the slush pile again today, but it was far from the usual this time!
The man from the post room came in as usual and I said hello as usual but that is where it stops being usual.
He had several new manuscripts for the slush pile [...]

I looked up the word verbatim Thursday 26 April, 2007

ver·ba·tim /vərˈbeɪtɪm/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[ver-bey-tim] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–adverb

1.
in exactly the same words; word for word: to repeat something verbatim.

–adjective

2.
corresponding word for word to the original source or text: a verbatim record of the proceedings.

3.
skilled at recording or [...]

a good story Thursday 26 April, 2007

Julie read through the manuscripts that were picked out of the slush pile today. She said the two that were there before I started aren’t all that good and to send them the standard rejection letter. She said the one that I picked out the other day is a very good story, but [...]

finding things Tuesday 24 April, 2007

I was very excited today, I found a story in the slush pile that was quite good! I put it in the pile for Julie to read. There are three in the pile now.

First Among Sequels Monday 23 April, 2007

I’ve been given a new task, I’m helping Julie with promoting the next Jasper Fforde book. It is called First Among Sequels and it is very exciting as this is the first Thursday Next book for a fair few years as he has been writing other books and doing other things. Lots of people will [...]

weekend again : ) Saturday 21 April, 2007

We had sandwiches again for lunch, but they were delivered by a different man than the last time, I got tuna and cucumber this time. I like tuna.
I decided that today I would go and buy myself the red shirt from the nearby Primark the bus driver had told me about. I can’t remember the [...]

surviving to Friday Friday 20 April, 2007

I was printing off a batch of letters to send to the writers, and suddenly everything stopped working. I am not sure what happened but one of the letters had become stuck inside the printer. I tried to pull it out myself but it only made everything worse and I got ink all over my [...]

day four Thursday 19 April, 2007

A new box of manuscripts was added to the slush pile today, there must be a lot of people writing out there. I wonder if I will ever get to the bottom of the pile. It doesn’t really matter to me, I enjoy reading the different stories anyway.

Third day Wednesday 18 April, 2007

I like working in the office, I am starting to feel right at home. The Junior I’m supposed to be taking over from didn’t turn up again, I emailed my Mentor to say that she has not been here to show me what to do, I asked her if she could give me some advice [...]

Second day! Tuesday 17 April, 2007

Today I went to work in the Publicity Office again. It is exciting to go to work in a different place, even though it is in the same building. Today I found out that I went to the same University as Julie although we probably didn’t know each other because I would have started [...]