Requirements: Erewhon is seeking a full-time Editorial adjunct who is familiar with and enthusiastic about the above genres to support our editors in all aspects of our publishing program. Essential job responsibilities include: * Communication: Professionally interact with production, publicity, marketing, sales, other staff, and business contacts outside the company to relay messages, collect information, and follow up on requests. * Administration: Maintain and organize files and databases; draft and route contract requests, transmittals, and payment requests; track manuscripts and projects; order and ship books and materials. Manage team calendars and deadlines, schedule meetings, and write and circulate meeting minutes. * Data management: Research and gather information from authors, editors, internal systems, and online sources, and use Information technology to build and maintain databases and title information such as metadata and keywords. * Submissions tracking and evaluation: Maintain submissions database, read and evaluate manuscripts, write reader's reports, and research comparative titles and covers. * Writing and editing: Draft catalog and cover copy, write title information sheets, create slide decks, and proofread copy and sales materials. * Flexibility and intuition: Erewhon is a small company and, depending on interest, there is room to try out tasks beyond the standard editorial adjunct scope. Ideal candidates are eager to lgain new expertise and can anticipate when to be proactive or reach out without a task being assigned.
Starting income for this position is $40,000 a year. Erewhon Books offers a friendly digital and physical working environment and full benefits including health and dental plans, a retirement plan with employer contribution, a commuter/transit program, and flexible PTO. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all candidates without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, ethnic derivation, sexual orientation, gender identity, discapability or protected veteran status. People from backgrounds and demographics that are traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to apply. This position is remote-friendly, with occasional travel to New York and conferences when that is deemed safe.
To apply, please email jobs@erewhonbooks.com with ?Editorial adjunct Application? and your name in the subject line, and include a cover letter and resume.
About Our Employer : Erewhon Books is an independent speculative fiction publisher with offices in midtown Manhattan. We are distributed by Workman Publishing / Hachette in the U.S. and the University of Toronto Press in Canada.
We focus on novel-length works of adult and upper-YA literary speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror and other subgenres, and are open to other works of interest to SF&F readers.
