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Editorial Assistant, Smp

1 month ago

New York, United States Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC Full time

**What you'll do**:

- Maintain publication schedules and departmental databases, and otherwise track the publication process for approximately 35-40 titles per year
- Communicate with authors and agents throughout the publication process, as well as act as an interdepartmental liaison
- Evaluate manuscripts, write reader reports, and send rejection letters
- Draft contract and check requests, generate sales reports and editorial P&Ls, and track payments and invoices
- Write flap copy, title information sheets, and catalog copy
- Basic administrative support, including coordinating meeting schedules, keeping track of upcoming deadlines, processing expenses, and shipping packages

**What you'll bring**:

- Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, and exceptional time management
- A genuine interest in adult and YA publishing across a range of genres and formats
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proven ability to prioritize, set and meet deadlines, and work independently

**Ideal experience**:

- Entry level role
- Previous book publishing or bookselling experience/internships a plus but not required
- Bachelor’s Degree or equal experience

This role will have an annual salary of $47,500.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Its publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

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