Lucas Vasquez was a Sales and Marketing Intern at Heyday in the Summer of 2012. I got my first cell phone when I was almost sixteen, and I was late in the game. I didn’t mind living without one up to that point. Mostly, it was just inconvenient when I had to borrow somebody’s phone […]
Publishing: a great place to be
Elizabeth Smith, Fall 2012 Marketing and Publicity Intern, is now Managing Editorial Assistant at Chronicle Books. While interviewing for various book-related positions (the Heyday internship among them), one question came up over and over again: How do you feel about entering an industry that’s in such a state of change? Coming from a journalism background, […]
California Fancies
Alisha Saville, Sales and Marketing Intern at Heyday in the Fall of 2012, now works at California Newsreel. A launch meeting gathered the staff my second week in. A lively debate on word meanings and titles concluded in the unusual unanimous decision, and I walked back to my desk reveling in the linguistic high. “Who […]
Getting into California
By Sandy Chang, Sales and Marketing Intern at Heyday, B.A. Candidate in English, Stanford University, 2013 On my second day at Heyday, Lillian, one of my supervisors, turned around from the passenger seat of the car and smiled, “Today is a great day for research. Let’s go hiking at a preserve one of our fall books […]
Just get out into the world
James O’Hagan was a Sales and Marketing Intern at Heyday during the summer of 2012. When offered the opportunity to work as an intern at Heyday, I was excited for the chance to gain experience and insight into the publishing industry. With the end of my time as an undergraduate student approaching, I am faced […]