Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
Application Deadline: 6 September 2026
Department: Editorial
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: London
Compensation: £31,500 - £32,000 / year
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
