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Closing date: 22nd August at 11.59pm
Salary: £24,000 per annum (+bonus + benefits)
 
Quercus is looking for an Editorial Assistant to join the busy and friendly Quercus Fiction team on a one-year fixed term contract.
Founded in 2004, Quercus has already won the prestigious ‘Publisher of the Year’ award and built a reputation as a hit-maker: daring, ambitious, socially conscious and collaborative. We are the publishing house that brought you Lisbeth Salander in the Dragon Tattoo series; bestselling Crime/Thriller writer Peter May as well as the go-to anti-racism resource Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad. Quercus Fiction is home to commercial novels from much-loved authors as well as breakout new voices. We publish standout stories across a range of genres, including crime &amp; thriller, women’s fiction, historical, saga, reading group and literary fiction. We are the home of standout international bestsellers including No.1 bestseller Elly Griffiths, Sunday Times bestseller Beth O’Leary, New York Times bestseller Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the million-copy bestseller JP Delaney and the Women’s Prize longlisted author, Dawnie Walton.  
 
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Updating data on our internal system on a daily basis</li>
<li>Submitting books for prizes</li>
<li>Taking minutes at team meetings</li>
<li>Overseeing the editorial critical path of our books</li>
<li>Liaising with authors on copyedits, page proofs and paperback production,</li>
<li>Processing invoices</li>
<li>Supporting the Fiction team and publisher with various tasks</li>
</ul>
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
<li>You will be a highly organised, passionate reader of fiction and have a meticulous eye for detail</li>
<li>You will have good writing skills with the ability to prioritise tasks swiftly and be a clear communicator</li>
<li>You will be a team player with an enthusiastic and can-do attitude, who is excited and motivated to join a busy and fast-paced team</li>
</ul>
 
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access. 
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
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 and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>

Carmelite House

Hachette UK

Editorial assistant (1 year fixed-term)

Closing date for applications: Friday 19th August at 11.59pm
Salary: £9.90 per hour
 
In this role you'll be sharing the joy of both books and coffee with customers of this indie bookshop. 
First opened in 1948, the Sevenoaks Bookshop is a black-owned, truly independent haven for booklovers of all ages. Stocking the very best new books in every genre, our brilliant booksellers are on hand to offer advice and inspiration whenever needed. We recently doubled in size and have a new dedicated children's shop, packed full of wonderful books, puzzles and stationery. We host regular book clubs, writers groups and author events. We're also the winner of the British Books Awards, 2021 Best Independent Bookshop for the UK and Ireland!
For this part-time temporary position, we're looking for a keen reader and booklover to work in our bookshop and cafe.
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
<li>Our ideal candidate will have some barista/hospitality/retail experience, have great customer service skills, and be ready to help give great book recommendations to our customers.</li>
<li>Training will be given across all aspects of the job, but candidates with experience of at least one of the above mentioned areas will be prioritised.</li>
<li>The position is from September to January, 3 days a week (Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays) with extra hours/days potentially available during the busy Christmas period, and to do holiday cover.</li>
<li>It is often a physically demanding job - standing at the cafe counter, carrying trays of drinks and cakes, loading the dishwasher, standing at the bookshop till-point, shelving books, etc. </li>
</ul>
Although this is a temporary position, it may work out that we are able to extend the contract into the new year (this is depending on the other members of the bookselling team). For anyone looking to pursue a career in the publishing industry, a period of time spend working in a bookshop is an invaluable experience.
If travel costs are a potential problem in relation to applying, it may be possible to obtain a grant from the Book Trade Charity: <a href="https://www.btbs.org/" target="_blank">https://www.btbs.org/</a>
Please include in your application the last three books you read and your top three books of all time. This needn't be a separate covering letter, but could be included in the body of the application email. Applicants that don't include these details will not be considered for the role.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Sevenoaks Bookshop Ltd

Bookseller & barista

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