Del Rey hiring an editor

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Every now and then I browse job listings just to see what's out there. I found this--thought Ookla and Brenna, at least, would have an interest:

Editor - Del Rey Books
Publication or Company  Random House U.S.A
Industry  Book Publishing
Salary  
Benefits Health
Job Duration Full Time
Job Location NEW YORK, NY USA
Job Requirements
About our company
Random House, Inc. is the world's largest general trade book publisher. It is a division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the foremost media companies in the world.

Your tasks
Del Rey Books seeks an Editor to join its team. Reporting to the VP & Editor in Chief, you will acquire, evaluate, develop and edit manuscripts and proposals. Responsibilities include: negotiating purchase of manuscripts with authors/agents, attending weekly meetings to discuss acquisitions, consulting with authors on content, style and format of publication and preparing/writing copy for books, catalogs and title information sheets. You will also establish and coordinate the editorial production and publication schedules as well as track through all stages until completion.

Our requirements
Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years book experience with a concentration in the sci-fi/fantasy genre as well as a solid track record of spearheading successful acquisitions. Correspondingly, you must also have proven agent relationships. Strong negotiation and conceptual editing skills are necessary.

Thank you for your interest in Random House. Random House is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Submit application to
Please apply using our online application process.

Contact Human Resources

I found it here. You have to register, but it's free, and you really should know about this site anyway if you don't already. Their job board is centered around New York, but there are often other locations listed, too, and some freelance.

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Looking at it a little closer, it requires quite a bit of experience. I don't have the kind of experience it's wanting--most likely when I start looking, I'll be going for assistant/associate ed. positions. But at any rate, do what you will with it.

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I just wanted to chime in here. I realize my experience is in the video game industry, but when you look at job postings in this industry, studios list job requirements for what they WANT in candidates. That doesn't necessarily mean it is what they can get from candidates. If it's a job you're interested in, go ahead and apply for it. You may find you're the most qualified applicant they have. Or if not that, at least you're establishing you have an interest, and you can follow up later on.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

What's probably going to happen is that all the editorial assistants from the other SF/F publishers in New York will apply for this job, and one of them will get hired. So a month or more from now, we should see a posting for an editorial assistant job from one of the other companies.

Anyway I am very very happy where I am now. New York is still a possibility in the distant future, but I'm going to play things out here for I imagine at least 5 years, would be just fine with much longer.

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I'm thinking associates will move up, assistants will become associates, ed. assistants will become assistant eds., and then yes, the chain continues.

At any rate, it's an interesting job. Too bad it's 5 or 6 months too early.

[EUOL]

Heh.  Moshe mentioned this one too.  He was almost wanting to try out for it, but it would mean losing his authors at Tor, which he doesn't want to do.  (Thankfully.)

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Most editors take their authors with them, but I imagine there's more of a house loyalty than an editor loyalty at Tor.