Editorial Assistant, Aria – Head of Zeus

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a detail oriented and highly organised Editorial Assistant to join Head of Zeus. The candidate will work across genres on a wide range of titles and provide administrative assistance across the fiction department. An interest in genre fiction is essential, and a general understanding of the eBook/commercial market would be useful.

You will work closely with a publishing director and editorial director and one assistant editor on all aspects of Aria’s and Head of Zeus’s commercial fiction publishing.

To assist with the day-to-day running of the imprint and provide support across fiction imprints:
• Creating/checking AI’s (Advance Information sheets) and new entries for acquisitions
• Updating keywords/metadata and reviewing Amazon copy
• Ensuring Biblio entries for all titles are up-to-date and feeding out correctly
• Maintaining digital and print schedules and critical path for Aria titles
• Preparing and checking catalogue copy

To assist Aria Publisher and Editorial Director with editorial management of books:
• Liaising with authors and production department from copyedit stage onwards
• Liaising between production dept and editors to ensure deadlines are met and that books are typeset as per critical path
• Proof collation and checking corrections on pages
• Providing information for prelims
• Proofreading and signing off prelims for print
• Proofreading cover
• Adhoc tasks as required

Communicating with authors:
• Notifying authors and agents of digital promotions
• Sharing sales figures
• Ordering gratis/contract copies from warehouse for authors and agents
• General support with author visits/author meetings

The role is based at our London office 5-8 Hardwick Street, London EC1R 4RG on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred).

We’d love it if you had…

• A demonstrable passion for commercial publishing is essential; the successful candidate will have real market awareness and be able to talk about books in the market
• Ability to work efficiently and prioritise tasks as they come in
• Excellent communication and time management skills
• Top notch project management skills, good organisation and meticulous attention to detail
• A positive and collaborative approach to working

Employer details

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all began.