Working with student interns can make a difference for you as an author or publisher, expanding the possibilities of what you can achieve. It can be like instantly adding a staff to your company, bringing in one or more team members with editing, design, social media, or marketing skills. It can let you pay forward some of the mentoring that you may have received on the road to creating your own career.
This guide, developed by USA Today-bestselling author Robert Jeschonek after years of direct experience with student interns from high-profile colleges and universities across the U.S., will give you the tools you need to recruit, train, task, teach, and learn from such interns. You'll discover the ups and downs of working with interns, the pitfalls to avoid, and the hacks and shortcuts that will make your life easier. Insights from past and current interns will give you an even more complete picture of what to expect as you develop and deploy your own system for enhancing your organization while sharing your knowledge and experience with the next generation.
Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning, envelope-pushing author whose fiction and comics have been published around the world. His Gaia Files urban fantasy series features an edgy heroine with the power to control the substance of the Earth itself. His young adult fantasy, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, was named a Top Ten First Novel for Youth by Booklist magazine. Robert’s work has appeared in Fiction River, PodCastle, Pulp Literature, Galaxy’s Edge, and other publications, and he was nominated for a British Fantasy Award. He has written official Doctor Who fiction, as well as comics for DC Comics and others. Robert has won an International Book Award and a Scribe Award for Best Original Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.