Fiction publisher Work, Jobs in London (with Salaries)

Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
HarperCollins UK —London
- £31,500 - £32,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Communication skills
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Editorial Assistant
Hachette —London
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Assessment Day (Entry-level)
Hachette —London
- Hybrid work
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
5d
Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
News Corp —London
- £31,500 - £32,000 a year
- Microsoft Word
- Contracts
- Communication skills
9h
Assessment Day (Entry-level)
Hachette UK —London
- £28,250 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
5d
Editor (12 month FTC)
Hachette UK —London
- £33,000 a year
- Full-time
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
14d
Assistant Editor, HQ Digital
HarperCollins UK —London
- £31,500 - £33,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- English
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22h
Assistant Editor, HQ Digital
News Corp —London
- £31,500 - £33,000 a year
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- English
9h
Publishing Executive
Hachette —London
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Translations Editorial and Social Media Assistant
Hachette —London
- Spanish
- Social media management
- English
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Editor (12 month FTC)
Hachette —London
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Commercial Assistant
Hachette —London
- Data analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Editor, Children's
Penguin Random House UK —London
- £35,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Analytics
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Press Officer
Hachette —London
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Sales Assistant
Hachette —London
- Administrative experience
- Communication skills
- Office experience
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
AV Film and Animation Assistant
Hachette —London
- Time management
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
PowerBI Developer (12 month FTC)
Hachette —London
- Analysis skills
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
14d
Editorial Director
Pan Macmillan —London
- £46,000 - £50,000 a year
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Work from home
12d
Assistant Management Accountant
Hachette —London
- Accounting
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Data Engineer
Hachette —London
- Continuous improvement
- AI
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
6d

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Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)

HarperCollins UK
London

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Job details

Fixed term contract
£31,500 - £32,000 a year
1 day ago

Qualifications

Content quality assurance review
Microsoft Word
Stakeholder liaison
Internal department liaison
Copy editing
Content creation
Purchase order creation
Editing quality assurance passes
Content management
Editorial workflow management
Project management experience
Communication skills
Copywriting

Full job description

Description

We have a brilliant opportunity to work with our bestselling General Fiction list, working to support our two Publishing Directors and a Commissioning Editor, as part of our busy, friendly General Fiction team. It’s a role that offers a broad range of responsibilities, with a focus on editorial support for some of our key brand authors, production support for the busy list, and some direct contact with authors and management of their publishing. The role also includes administrative tasks across the General Fiction team and an ability to prioritise is key. We’re looking for someone with practical editing experience in a commercially focused publishing team, who is passionate about popular fiction, romance and great storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial:

Working closely with the Publishing Directors to give editorial support on their authors
Managing all aspects of production on their titles and seeing them through the production process, including booking freelancers
Doing structural and line edits as needed or alongside the Publishing Directors and working with authors
Checking copy-edits, resolving queries and collating page proofs
Completing ebook editorial checks
Writing and preparing cover and launch briefs, and cover copy
Creating Advance Information sheets to key sales deadlines, monitoring and updating them
Inputting metadata across all relevant titles and monitoring it – including checking Amazon - to ensure it remains relevant and up to date
Proof-reading cover runouts, author presentations, short stories and other texts, as well as sales and marketing material, e.g. catalogues, rights sheets, presenters
Creating author questionnaires, reading group questions and other extra content
Reading and reporting speedily on submissions shared by the Publisher or Publishing Director

Administration:

Liaison on Publishing Directors’ behalf with authors, agents, and other departments
Provide advance/sample materials to internal divisions
Organising purchase orders and processing invoices
Supplying TCM figures, international sales figures and overall sales analysis
Raising new contracts
Ordering gratis copies for authors
Taking minutes when necessary at inhouse meetings
Sending out proofs for advance quotes

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Previous experience in Trade Editorial
Project-management experience – effective at multi-tasking, with the ability to cope in a pressurised environment
Direct liaison with authors, agents, and other departments within the publishing company
Editing and writing copy experience
Reliable and demonstrates initiative
Effective communicator at all levels
A keen eye for detail
Advanced MS Word and Intermediate Excel and Outlook

About HarperCollins UK

With a history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world. Here at HarperCollins UK, we publish around 1,500 books a year for readers of all ages and interests.

Our bestsellers include Bernard Cornwell, Adele Parks, Jonathan Franzen, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Memoirs of British prime ministers. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. And legendary titles by legacy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis.

We’re home to the most iconic bears, Paddington, Rupert and Winnie-the-Pooh, and Judith Kerr, Rob Biddulph and Michael Morpurgo, Mr Men & Little Miss, Thomas & Friends and Minecraft for our younger readers.

We have offices in London, Honley, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin. In London, we’re in The News Building with News UK. Keeping our historic connection to Glasgow, we’re also based in the Robroyson district where each week, our distribution centre sends up to 3 million books around the world.

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