Responsibilities
- Actively solicit and evaluate potential acquisitions purposefully and strategically, with a clear publication vision and sense of target audiences for each project in mind
- Cultivate relationships with a wide network of literary agents and authors
- Work closely with authors and agents in creative development of manuscripts, from conceptualization to developmental and structural work to line edits
- Collaborate with the Del Rey editorial team on evaluating submissions, contribute to shaping the imprint’s editorial strategy, and identify potential growth opportunities in the marketplace
- Shepherd each book through the publication process, from acquisition to transmittal to publication including: writing copy, sales materials, and loglines, soliciting blurbs, identifying the book’s target audience and articulating envisioning the book’s messaging and packaging strategy, and serving as the liaison between the author and agent and our support and promotional teams
- Serve as the book’s chief project manager, conscientiously hitting deadlines while piloting the book to publication, and as the book’s primary advocate, both in and out of house
Requirements
- Acquire 10-12 titles per year with an emphasis on commercial genre fiction with a speculative edge
- Articulate and execute a handcrafted vision for each title from acquisition through publication
- Serve as authors’ main point of contact and provide dedicated author care
- Serve as in-house project manager and champion for each book
- Have an imaginative and capacious sense of the aesthetic possibilities and potential audience for genre fiction
- Acquire fiction that is representative of the diversity of the speculative fiction community
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
