If your manuscript is accepted by a publisher, it has a long journey before it appears in print. Dozens of people play different roles in helping your book – and many other titles – to reach the market, and to do well when it gets there.
We interviewed some of the key staff at Bloomsbury to find out how they contribute to the publishing process, and what it is about their jobs that makes them tick.
Choose from the roles below to watch the interviews that interest you:
Editorial Assistant | Rights & Contracts Executive | Publicity Assistant | Paperbacks Editor | Online Marketing Manager | Operations Manager, Information Systems | Managing Editor |
“…managing submissions from agents, making sure they get read and get responded to as quickly as possible”
Rights and Contracts Executive
“…helping the contracts managers to move the authors’ and illustrators’ contracts along.”
“We get the books out in the public domain…”
“What I do as Paperbacks Editor is look at how the book performed in hardback… and then turn it like magic into a paperback.”
“…as online has become a bigger and bigger part of what people spend their time doing… they have created this position… to find a way to reach people through the internet.”
Operations Manager, Information Systems
“My department builds and maintains the systems for capturing our bibliographic data…”
“I look after the fiction list for two of our commissioning editors, seeing [the books] through from when they’re delivered by the author to when we publish them.”
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