READING ON THE JOB
If you’re a bibliophile, a book lover, you want to spend most of your time around books – reading in a cozy corner, browsing the shelves at a bookshop, maybe discussing your latest reads in a book club.
In that case, Jess Taylor is definitely a book lover. After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a bachelor of fine arts in creative writing and a certificate in publishing, she eventually landed a job at a book publisher in Herndon. She was there for more than six years and rose to the position of acquisitions director.
Then the Ashburn entrepreneur took it a step further – she quit her job and opened an online bookstore called The Reading Chamber…