Chloé Lecardonnel | Future intern in a publishing house

Student at University of Angers

Faculty of Litterature, Foreign Languages and Human Sciences

Second year of Master : Edition, Professional Writing and Multimedia Publishing (since September 2019)

Skills developped in professional writing generally awaited in all publishing houses

Learning of the PAO methods

Creating a website

Organisation of a workday, the Journée des Éditeurs 2020, around the topic "Publishing short texts"

Courses made by professionals of the publishing industry

Initiation regarding the management and creation of a publishing house

Creation of an editorial monitoring file

Study of the image semiology and of its impact on the creation of book covers

Production of covers and books projects

Internship at the Paulsen Publishing House

The Paulsen publishing house, literature & adventure (74) :

This house focuses on literature based on exploration and journeys, both in space and in oneself

Founded in 1995 by Michel Guérin in Chamonix, France ; collaboration with Frederik Paulsen since 2005

Main trait : fine red books

Main topics : wild spaces and countries , exploration , adventure

My future duties as an intern :

Editorial department

Assist the editors in their rereading and rewriting work

Helping the integration of adjustments in the project model

Reading manuscripts

Layout of press releases

Production of a work file (texts, press review, bibliography) to prepare the release of a children's book

Involvement in the different duties related to the editorial duties

Hobbies

♥ Reading ♥

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies [...]. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons .

"La lecture, une porte ouverte sur un monde enchanté." - François Mauriac .

♥ Writing ♥

"Je suis homme et j’ai fait des livres ; j’ai donc fait aussi des erreurs." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lettres écrites de la montagne .

"Écrire, c'est brûler vif, mais aussi renaître de ses cendres." - Blaise Cendrars .

♥ Drawing ♥

"Qui donc a dit que le dessin est l'écriture de la forme ? La vérité est que l'art doit être l'écriture de la vie." - Édouard Manet .

"Réaliser des esquisses revient à planter des graines pour faire pousser des tableaux." - Vincent Van Gogh .

♥ Hiking ♥

"La loi de la nature fondamentale conseille à tout homme de s'efforcer à la paix." - Thomas Hobbes .

"C'est une triste chose de songer que la nature parle et que le genre humain n'écoute pas." - Victor Hugo .

♥ History ♥

"Celui qui ne connaît pas l'histoire est condamné à la revivre." - Karl Marx .

"Moi je respecte d'abord ce qui dure plus que les hommes." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .