I Survived the First Day

Hey everybody!

Well, it was my first day at the new job, and I thought I'd just do a quick post to keep you all updated.

It went really well; mostly it was just a case of being shown some of the basics, although I did also go to a sales and marketing meeting where they worked out what titles would be released in October and what would be pushed back to the new year. It might make me a bit geeky, but I found it fascinating!

I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to discuss. Given that I have to carry around a swipe card to get in and out of the office for fear of industrial espionage, I don't think it'd be very wise of me to shoot my mouth off too much. I will say that we got some unsolicited manuscripts accidentally sent to us, and the quality of them was surprisingly low. One pitched the book, literally, as "having a beginning, middle and end" and that "stuff happens". Wow. I'm so inspired to run out and buy that.

I'll post my mini-review of Spider-Man 3 when ... well, when I have the strength (I didn't hate it, but it was a bit disappointing).

I did, however, see Curse of the Golden Flower the week before Spidey, and to succintly review it;
1) reminiscent of a Shakespearean tragedy
2) lavish production design
3) well worth checking out.

So that's it. I'm off to shower.