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During my time here at Beaufort, I will be going by the nom-de-plume Jane Beausten because I recently re-read Pride and Prejudice for one of my literature classes and remembered how much I love her witty satire. I am in my final year of undergrad studying English with a minor in Art History at Fordham …Read More.

My summer in New York was loud, crowded, stressful, expensive, and amazing. My apartment was in the East Village, a comfortable but busy neighborhood in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I’ve also been working part-time at a coffee shop in Williamsburg, which has allowed to me to get to know the neighborhood and become …Read More.

My summer in the city was hectic, exhausting, and incredible; I know I will never forget it. From the moment I stepped into my apartment in Manhattan, I knew it was going to be an amazing summer. Though this was not the first time I have moved to a new place, it was 100 times …Read More.

When I was a sophomore in high school, I discovered the online book community. It may seem a little dramatic, but this community changed my life; It reignited my love for books and eventually led me to the world of book publishing. I don’t even know how I first stumbled upon “BookTube”—the community of YouTubers …Read More.

  When I first moved into my dorm, I had approximately 15 books shoved in all the empty spaces I could find after all my “necessities” were packed. My reading-for-pleasure books were a necessity to me, though—much to my dad’s chagrin—so into the boxes they went. “Wait, are you going to read all of those?” …Read More.

  Hi readers! I’m one of Beaufort’s newest summer interns, and for my blog entries I’ll be going by the nom de plume Sherlock Beaulmes; it just seemed fitting to connect my punny Beaufort pen name to one of the most iconic figures in literature! I’m an English and linguistics major at the College of …Read More.

Going to BEA is an exhilarating experience for any bookworm. The Jatvis Center floors are lined with huge booths, publishing houses are handing out advanced copies of books, people are networking and trying to make notable connections, and fans are lining up in hopes of getting to meet their favorite authors. As an intern, my …Read More.

BookCon is not perfect, but I believe that at its core it is still a great place to go if you want to share your love of reading with others. Walking into the convention this year, I already knew that it would be distinctly different from the BookCon I attended two years ago. For a …Read More.

Hello, readers! For my time at Beaufort, I have chosen the nom-de-plume of J.K. Beauling because: A. Harry Potter shaped me as a writer and a dreamer, and B. most of the good pseudonyms were already taken. I am a Texas-native, a writing, literature, and publishing major at Emerson College, a pretty standard millennial, and now, …Read More.

When I was eight years old I decided I was going to be an author. A dream that is pretty standard and not unusual within the Publishing Industry. However, fast track to college, and, being a person of mostly realistic goals, I opted for Global Marketing as a major. At the end of the day, …Read More.

Adaptation has become a taboo word that incites anger in many people, especially book lovers who find their favorite books being adapted to the screen. When we see a book being adapted to the screen, we scoff and insist that the book is always better than the movie. It appears that nowadays we see more …Read More.

Have you ever wondered how Hemingway advertised his work? Or maybe, Austen? What about Garcia Marquez? We all know the typical stories: How a publisher read Harry Potter and politely declined (they will never live that down), the classic feud between C. S Lewis and Tolkien on starting a book with a street lamp, and …Read More.