I'm frequently asked how I ended up with an illustrious book publishing career. My stock response is: college internship. If you're interested in the long version of the story, then you can read the Q&A over at PublishingCareers by Lori Cates Hand.

To give you an idea of the conversation, I will now quote myself:

At F+W, you went from managing a magazine to managing books. Was that a difficult transition?

Not at all, though I suspect my experience is unique. F+W is more like a media company that parcels out its content in different formats and packages, across a variety of niche audiences (in my case, writers). So I worked for Writer’s Digest magazine for a while, then moved to Writer’s Digest Books, which is really the same kind of game, with a lot of the same players. It also helped that I had previous experience in the book division before moving to Writer’s Digest magazine. But F+W editors often move between the magazine and book division successfully.

Many thanks to Lori for her insightful questions (and for anyone looking for a career in publishing, her site is not-to-be-missed).