Canelo - assistant editor

Closing date for applications: Monday 18 August 2025

Salary: £27,000 (depending on skills and experience plus bonus and benefits)

Are you passionate about commercial fiction and eager to take the next step in your publishing career? Canelo is looking for a dedicated assistant editor to join it's thriving fiction team.

With the recent acquisition by DK, this is an incredibly exciting time to join our team. You will have the fantastic opportunity to support Canelo in bringing an exciting and varied list of books to market.

You'll be at the heart of our publishing process, and get to work across a variety of fiction genres, focusing on our popular crime list. We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running, who is able to juggle admin and creative tasks with ease.

If you want to build upon your love for commercial fiction and are eager to learn a lot about successfully publishing across a variety of genres, formats and territories, please apply with your most recent CV and cover letter!


Responsibilities

• Desk editing, which involves booking and checking the work of freelance editors and proofreaders
• Overseeing the cover design process from briefing through to production
• Creating and maintaining metadata for a large number of titles
• Communicating with authors and agents regarding edits, covers, and other updates, ensuring they feel supported and informed
• Ensuring all projects adhere to the critical path

Knowledge, skills and experience

Our ideal candidate is a real self-starter, who can bring creativity to the role with good copy writing and cover design ability, so a solid understanding of publishing and desk editing is essential. You will be organised and confident in communicating with internal teams and external stakeholders. You will also have the opportunity to bring ideas to editorial, cover, and launch meetings and comment on potential acquisitions.


Additional information

We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:

• 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee assistance programme
• 60% discount on company books
• Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
• Flex Fridays (1pm Finish - subject to certain criteria)
• Shopping discounts
• Up to 30 days remote working from abroad (subject to certain criteria being met)
• We plant a tree for every new employee to our business!

DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships. For more information, visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code. DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancies.

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