Throw your hands up and rejoice!!! 2 great things happened to us in the last week. For starters, my very handsome, clever and generally gorgeous fellow Marco celebrated his 28th birthday. Happy birthday Marco, and thank you for making even the dullest days sparkle!
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| 28 years young! |
Secondly, after almost 3 months of working away quite happily in my job at the London School of Economics, I’ve broken back into the world of publishing! It may have taken me a while, but it was worth the wait because my new title is – wait for it – ‘Managing Editor’ at Macmillan Publishers. Even as I type this, I can barely believe it. I have to confess that it’s never something I would have gone for without encouragement… I applied for the position of Development Editor with Macmillan a fortnight ago, and interviewed with them in their offices at Oxford. (Incidentally, it was also an excuse for my first trip to Oxford, which blew my mind.) They contacted me afterwards to give me the news that they didn’t think I had enough direct teaching experience to take on that role (quite rightly!), but that they were impressed with my organisation and they invited me back to interview for the Managing Editor job. It was a rather harrowing experience and certainly left me with a few grey hairs as I had to prepare and present an editorial task, but it must have gone well because they offered it to me!
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| Much of this was consumed |
So I have a fortnight left at LSE, and then I swing straight into my new role. It’ll be a pretty steep learning curve I’m sure, but I really couldn’t be happier. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
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