Managing Editor Lisa Graziano typically takes on three interns per semester for editing. In her words, "I'd love to have someone who has skills with e-newsletter systems and likes to tinker online with such things, as well as someone who really wants to read, and read, and read manuscripts." See internship descriptions below.
Leapfrog Press Internships available for fall and spring semester
Contact: Lisa Graziano, leapfrog@leapfrogpress.com
Leapfrog Press, LLC • Fredonia, NY • 508-274-2710 • www.leapfrogpress.com
A complete application consists of:
- Cover letter indicating your experiences for the particular internship for which you’re applying
- Resume
- Two letters of reference, at least one academic. If the other is not academic, it should be from an employer. Everything can be sent via email.
DEADLINE for Fall 2013 applications: Monday, April 22. Students will be notified before the end of the semester.
MARKETING & PUBLICITY INTERN
- Marketing is a key part of publishing. It begins more than a year before a book’s publication date and can continue for years after that. Publicity is the focus before publication date. There is a large range of tasks for interns. Some are listed below.
- Writing reading group/course guides for books—involves reading the book, researching the topic (for nonfiction), and interviewing the author.
- Designing book trailers—involves creating a script and choosing images/video clips. Depending in intern’s skills, can include actual creation of the video trailer.
- Writing press kits for upcoming books.
- Writing pitches to review media, bookstores, libraries, and radio shows for book reviews/author events/book purchase/author interviews.
- Compiling lists from online searches—Literary blogs, regional libraries, etc.
- Author interviews for newsletter, press kits, readers guides.
- e-Newsletter production, e-postcard creation.
- Phone pitches to bookstores for author events.
- Help with review copy mailings.
EDITORIAL INTERN
- Editorial work is also varied and runs from manuscript review to final book printing. Depending on interests, an intern will be trained as a manuscript reviewer and/or as a manuscript editor/proofreader.
- Review of query letters and manuscript samples.
- Contest manuscript review: read and categorize entire manuscripts while our annual contest is running (winter/spring). Approximately 500 book-length manuscripts are submitted during the Leapfrog Fiction Contest, including both adult literary fiction and children’s (middle grade and YA) fiction. Intern will be trained using anonymous samples from past contests.
- Manuscript editing—editing for grammar, punctuation, and typos. Includes editing of manuscripts just accepted, and proofreading of typeset manuscripts that are ready for printing. Knowledge of track changes in Word and/or commenting in full version of Adobe Acrobat is needed.
- Writing study questions for literary titles, descriptions for the academic market, back cover text, and press kits, among other documents. Often involves working with an author via email.
- A laptop computer will be provided with all needed software. Interns are also welcome to bring their own laptops.
- All interns have the opportunity to learn about how to run a small press and the entire book production process, including manuscript review, inside design (typesetting), cover design, creation of back cover text, publicity and marketing plans, book printing, galley mailing, and author book signings.
INTERN FOR LITERARY JOURNAL CROSSBORDER
This would overlap with the above and could include the following tasks:
- Identify and draft letters/emails to writers of experimental fiction who we admire, asking them to submit stories
- Publicize Crossborder online in various writer’s forums
- Contact similar literary journals and propose link exchange, and print ads/announcements within the journal
- Set up Wordpress account for Crossborder
- Look into other avenues of Web presence; blogs where guest authors can post, for example
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