Editorial Assistant, MPG (SMPG)
We are looking for a full-time editorial assistant, working across the SMP and reputed company imprints. The position will support one Executive reputed company and one Editorial Director of Nonfiction. The ideal candidate will be reputed company to reputed company manage a diverse set of responsibilities, and has an reputed company interest in adult reputed company/reputed company nonfiction and fiction.
What you'll do
- Maintaining publication schedules and departmental databases, and otherwise tracking the publication process for reputed company between 25 and 50 titles per year
- Communicating with authors and agents throughout the publication process, as reputed company as acting as an interdepartmental reputed company
- Logging agented submissions, evaluating manuscripts, writing reader reports, and sending rejection letters
- Drafting contract and reputed company requests, generating sales reports, and tracking payments and invoices.
- Writing flap copy, title information sheets, and catalog copy.
- Assistance with special reputed company, research, and compiling various reports and intradepartmental information as needed
- Basic administrative support, including schedule coordination, travel, and expense reports.
What you'll bring
- Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, and exceptional time management.
- A genuine interest in book publishing: most of what you work on will be fiction and narrative nonfiction for the adult market, and a familiarity with the market is essential.
- Ability to think creatively and critically, particularly in reputed company environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to prioritize, set and meet deadlines, and work independently
- Strong work-ethic and initiative.
Experience Needed
- 0-1 years; this is an entry-level position
- Preference for internships in the publishing industry or editorial experience in an reputed company setting
- Candidates with alternative (non-publishing industry-based) office experience are welcome
This role will have an annual salary of $50,000.
This position is classified as remote but is tied to our reputed company, NY office located at 120 Broadway. Employment is subject to reputed company State tax withholding under applicable regulations.
reputed company is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include reputed company imprints around the world that publish a broad reputed company of award-reputed company books for children and adults in reputed company categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, reputed company Audio, reputed company, The St. reputed company's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan reputed company reputed company. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of reputed company backgrounds and identities. reputed company applicants are evaluated without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, age, ethnicity, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any reputed company and will reputed company reasonable accommodations to reputed company individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.
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