Written by: Selina Azizi
Date Posted: April 21st, 2017
In my last blog post, I talked a bit about how a history student can benefit from a literary agency internship. But, doesn’t this beg the question: how does a literary agency benefit from the history student?
Posted by Selina Azizi on January 23rd, 2017
When I first began my internship at a literary agency, I strongly believed it would help me should I ever seek a career in the publishing field. Never would I have guessed how much it would help me as a history student. Here’s why a literary agency internship is beneficial to any budding historian!
By Selina Azizi. Posted November 28th, 2016.
There is an unexplainable joy in reading through manuscripts and seeing each one’s potential to become something great. Unfortunately, though, I’ve also spent time perusing through manuscripts and discovering that perhaps, there is a lack of potential. These moments are the ones that bring to surface the greatest challenges of being a literary agency intern. I wanted to share these challenges with you all.
Credit to Abhi Sharma; licensed via Flickr/CC.
By: Selina Azizi. Posted October 16th, 2016.
As an intern at a literary agency, I think it would be criminal not to write a post about what I’ve learned regarding the whos and the whats that are looked for by agents. A month and a half as an undergraduate intern may not have given me enough experience to do this for a living, but it has certainly taught me a bit about what agents look for in your average submission. So, to all of the authors that aspire to publish books in a non-academic setting, I present to you four aspects of a submission that an agent will likely look for, and at, right away.
