Lambo's campus job suited her perfectly. It was also the first time I had ever been paid to write and to be creative with my writing. The editors at the Akron Beacon Journal read both plays and her clips and hired her to report on stories from Wooster. Then a former colleague in news services, Julia Hodson, told Lambo about an opening at College Connections, a New York public relations firm that specialized in colleges. Lambo moved to New York in December 1994 and settled temporarily in the East 48th Street bedroom of Melissa Mullins '95, whose mother allowed Lambo to live in Melissa's then-empty room for two months.
Connections are the operative word here.
At the p.r. Then someone mentioned an opening at Harper Collins. For the next two and a half years, Lambo promoted business books for Harper Business. The publishing business is incestuous. Moving to the Web site was a nice option, an escape from the status quo.