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DailyLit Launches Fabulous Women Series

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the brand new Fabulous Women Series, available exclusively on DailyLit. This series will deliver extraordinary women and their stories each week to your inbox.

It’s rare that I meet a woman who’s as inspirational as the editor of this series, Bonnie St. John. She’s a Rhodes Scholar, amputee, Olympic ski medalist, author, and mother who’s as smart as a whip and is a truly lovely person. NBC Nightly News called her “one of the five most inspiring women in America”. I believe it.

Bonnie will share books and stories from her favorite author friends, celebrities she’s interviewed, and her own personal “she-roes.” You’ll read about well-known women from Condoleezza Rice and Maya Angelou to a Fortune 500 CEO, a Miss America and even some “just plain women friends” – the kind who are always there to get you through tough times. Sign up for this series to mingle with these wise and wonderful women and let them shape and inform the way you approach whatever the world throws at you.

You can see what I mean about Bonnie on this clip from the Today Show. She’s as gorgeous on the outside as she is on the inside, don’t you think?

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 35 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 2 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

DailyLit Extern Projects Launch

I’ve always been a believer in internship and externship programs, particularly since I’ve been lucky enough in my own life to have greatly benefited from strong and supportive mentors.

We’ve started mentoring others here at DailyLit through both an internship and externship program.  It’s been wonderful to see the passion, insights and dedication that interns and externs have brought to DailyLit.  And these programs wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the programs’ overseers, Maggie Hilliard and Laura Kelly.

Today marks the launch of the initial projects from our DailyLit Extern Program.  We created this Externship Program for those interested in learning the digital publishing space – and there were only so many interns we could have working in our office at one time.  There were also a number of talented people working at large and small publishing houses who didn’t have the opportunity to learn the digital space in their current jobs. Incredibly talented people eager to learn was a resource we were eager to tap into.  And their projects show this talent.  For externs to complete their projects, they needed to dive into the world of social media, tap into on-line communities, start a blog and begin to tweet.  They also learned the basics of HTML (we gave them an introductory HTML class). The final projects are being launched on DailyLit.

You’ll see the fruits of the first externship projects  – “Authors in the Kitchen” by Megan Halpern here, and “The Ghost in the Pantry” by Erin Ferretti Slattery here. I hope you’ll join me in congratulating these externs on a job well done.

And I hope others will follow suit by starting their own mentoring programs.