Experience

Hachette Children's Group

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Editor

  • Sep 2022 - Present

• Editorial Assistant

  • Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

  Provided wide-ranging administrative support and contributed creatively to both the Fiction and Enid Blyton Entertainment teams, including reading and reporting on submissions.



New Writing North

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Panel Member

  • Nov 2020 - May 2021

  Represented Waterstones and applied my retailer market knowledge when selected to judge submissions to the Hachette Children's Novel Award 2021. Represented Waterstones and applied my retailer market knowledge when selected to judge submissions to the Hachette Children's Novel Award 2021.



Waterstones

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Children's Category Support

  • Oct 2019 - Mar 2021

  Continued to support the organisation and planning of the children’s campaign whilst also assuming responsibility for key seasonal lines such as Easter and Christmas.

• Children's Buying Administrator

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2019

  Supported the organisation and planning of the children’s campaign, which included the running of World Book Day, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month.

• Senior Children's Bookseller

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

  Proficiently managed the children’s section of the store, sustaining a perceptive awareness of new trends and voices in the children’s book market.



Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Children's Editorial Inten

  • Sep 2017 - Oct 2017

  Expanded my understanding of Editorial and the important role that it plays within publishing through shadowing key figures in the department whilst providing administrative and editorial support. Expanded my understanding of Editorial and the important role that it plays within publishing through shadowing key figures in the department whilst providing administrative and editorial support.