Before the full-time writing and publishing I do today, I was once a VP doing traditional distribution for 250 indie publishers to the US trade market. I set up a BookExpo internship for 20 UCLA students to learn about publishing and then work the trade show floor in Los Angeles. This "Journey of a Book" overview was the interns' first lesson. The foundations of traditional publishing remain the same even now, and all our publishing interns still start here.