16th May 2025


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£29,000pa–£43,000pa DOE


Editor/Assistant Editor (12 month FTC), Hodder Faith John Murray Press


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Editorial Director, Pan Fiction Pan Macmillan


Are you a talented commercial fiction editor with a keen eye for commercial crime and thriller fiction brands? Pan Macmillan has an exciting opportunity for an Editorial


Director to join the Pan Fiction team, the destination imprint for commercial fiction brands including Peter James, Ann Cleeves, David Baldacci and Stuart MacBride. This is a busy and wide-ranging role and will be responsible for commissioning and publishing a list of titles across the fiction genres with a focus on crime and thriller fiction, and will be the publisher for selected existing key Pan brands and authors.


Key tasks of the role include: • Commissioning and creatively seeking out authors to bring to the list.


• Being editorially responsible for your part of the Pan Fiction list across genres to an agreed growth strategy.


The ideal candidate will have the following skills and knowledge: • A successful track record in acquiring and publishing successful and profitable titles across commercial crime and thriller fiction.


• A creative mindset in how to pursue hot acquisitions and bring new authors to the list.


• A strong reputation with authors and agents, and impeccable author and agent care across all stages of the publishing process.


• Experience working with multiple departments in a publishing house.


• A can-do attitude in supporting the publisher’s ambitious growth for the list.


28 London £35,000pa DOE CMY


Project Editor Orion Publishing Group


You will work on a variety of fiction, non-fiction and illustrated titles, preparing manuscripts for production after they are handed over by the acquiring editor. You will commission freelancers, liaise with authors, handle copy-edits, support the commissioning of sensitivity reads, collate proof corrections, check book covers and work with in-house departments. We are


looking for candidates with a proven track record of trade project editing or who can transfer their non-trade publishing experience to commercial trade publishing.


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In this role, you will take on editorial and publishing responsibility for a number of existing key book and author brands across the Hodder Faith list as assigned by the publishing director and oversee these titles, working alongside the authors through to publication and beyond. We are looking for candidates with solid editorial experience, confident working in detail on


manuscripts and alongside authors. Applicants must be solutions orientated, with high diplomacy skills and a flexible approach.


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London


£50,000pa-£55,000pa DOE


Head of Marketing, Vintage (12-month FTC) Penguin Random House


Vintage are looking for a strategic and creative marketer, reporting to the Marketing Director of Vintage and working as part of a team of 12, with two direct reports. In this role you will lead marketing strategy for key titles at Vintage, working across our range of imprints with particular focus on designing and executing best-in-class campaigns for Jonathan Cape. You


will also lead marketing strategy for our catalogue and classics lists, devising audience-led campaigns that drive discovery and sales.


London


£30,000pa


Assistant Editor, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Editor to join the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack team, working on perhaps the most famous sports book in the world, published annually since 1864. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and possess an excellent attention to detail, a love of cricket and high standards of literacy and numeracy. The role will involve some work with an XML database, but there is significant scope for the right person to make their mark on the Almanack, as well as the opportunity to write reports on major matches.


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