Jocelyn Moore - Intern

A Little Bit About Me

I have always known I wanted to work in publishing, and with my ambitious manor (assisted with a little pride, as well), I never waivered in that passion.

After graduating from high school in 2018, I began working towards my bachelor’s in English first at Palomar University, and then transferred to the University of California, San Diego where I graduated in the Summer of 2022 with a bachelor’s in English and a minor in Linguistics. I learned a lot about printing methods throughout history, but, most importantly, I learned how those specific techniques impacted literature. For example, when the printing press was invented and the written word became more accessible to the masses in a way that had never been achieved before, we saw a huge influx in both political opinins as well as entertainment articles (thing gossip columns).

We are now in an era where publishing is changing drastically, and I want to be apart of it’s literal (literally, literal) impact on the masses. Once, not very long ago, reading was a solitary activity, but now, with more and more fantasy/romance books being written for women by women, we have seen a community flourish, turning reading into a social activity. This change is so sudden that publishing companies are having a lag in catching up. For the first time in our experience, but not for the human experience, literature is bringing communities together, and, as publishers, we need to create healthy environments that support those communities.

I was inspired to join Alpha Books because they are offering experience to a world that is hard to access. Ironic, when one remberes that publishing started as inclusivity. Eventually, I hope to be a successful author with my own publishing company that will help younger audiences obtain opportunities to publish their own works. As an Editor’s Choice Award Winner in Palomar’s Bravura Literary Journal, I do not have much published works, but I hope that I will have more time to write, publish and create for our world, and to assist how it shapes itself around the new publishing technologies.