Leyre Veras Preciado
Books Department Intern at David Higham Associates- Claim this Profile
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Spanish Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Basque Native or bilingual proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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Credentials
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Designing a Book Cover
LinkedInMar, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Designing a Book
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Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition
LinkedInFeb, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
InDesign 2021 Essential Training
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InDesign for Editors
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SEO for Social Media
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Learning Metadata for Book Publishing
LinkedInOct, 2020- Oct, 2024 -
Cambridge Proficiency in English
Cambridge Assessment English
Experience
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David Higham Associates
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Writing and Editing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Books Department Intern
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Mar 2021 - Present
· Intern assisting agent Veronique Baxter and her assistant Sara Langham.· Handling Veronique's submissions inbox. · Read submissions, forwarded or rejected them accordingly.· Wrote reader's reports for manuscripts. · Inputing and updating information about Veronique's clients on the agency's website.
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Ta Voix | Digital Publishing
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United Kingdom
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Editor
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Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
· Editing, copyediting and proofreading creative writing submissions for digital publication as part of an anthology.· Creation of Editorial reports on manuscripts.· Collaboration with the rest of the Editorial team and reporting to the Publishing Director.· Remote work with rigorous deadlines.
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Assistant Literary Agent
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Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
· Worked closely with the Agent and Founder of the Literary Agency. · Pitched authors and their texts to global publishing houses and literary agents.· Community Manager for the agency’s social media; posted daily content on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.· Handled the agency’s scheduled for Frankfurt and Guadalajara Book Fairs through the liaison with publishers and agents.· Attended Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse) and actively participated in meetings with editors and fellow agents.· Followed-up our Franktu Book Fair meetings with book submissions.· Produced and designed various seasonal Rights List (Summer, Frankfurter Buchmesse and FIL Guadalajara).· Creation of individual binders for each of our authors with information on them and their books.· Creation and design of a newsletter for the agency. · Organised the press on the agency’s clients on the agency’s website.· Copyediting content for the website. · Compiled data bases with information relevant to the publishing world.· Translation of texts English-Spanish.· Remote work.
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Penguin Random House UK
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United Kingdom
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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700 & Above Employee
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Penguin Random House - Jobhack
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Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
In February 2020, I was chosen to participate in Penguin Random House's Jobhack programme for a day full of publishing related activities. Throughout the activity-packed day, members of different departments like Editorial, Audio, Marketing & Publicity and Design from various of PRH's imprints provided us with an insight of their daily tasks as well as valuable advice for our future publishing career. Being divided into different groups, I collaborated with other fellow aspiring publishers to pitch a new idea for an anthology to #Merky Books, to create a suitable marketing strategy for a Puffin book, and to redesign a title for a specific audience for the Clothbound Classics series, task where my team won a prize thanks to our creative collaboration. Thanks to this workshop and the guest speakers, I was reaffirmed of my desire to work and had a valuable and rewarding publishing experience.
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National University of Singapore
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Singapore
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Student Ambassador
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Aug 2018 - May 2019
· Represent the University of Warwick at various events organised by NUS.· Engage with local students to promote Warwick as their choice for their year abroad.
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University of Warwick
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Student Ambassador
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Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
· Working in Open Days to represent and promote the English department through a direct contact with potential students.
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University of Deusto
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Spain
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Publishing Intern
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Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
· Aided with the initial process of the Deusto Social Impact Briefings: writing and edition of the introduction, foreword and a short biography of the Scientific Committee.· Research about various topics relevant to the department (social innovation, employment initiatives, interdisciplinary research) and creation of texts on them.· Creation of Power Point slides to use in a conference; synthesise the provided information.· Translation of texts English-Spanish.
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Content Writer
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Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
· Wrote articles on Hispanic Literature, relating them to current events.
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Content Writer
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Dec 2012 - Dec 2013
· Wrote articles, reviews, debates, info sheets and comic scripts on current Young Adult literary topics
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Education
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2020 - 2021
UCL
Master of Arts - MA, Publishing -
2016 - 2020
University of Warwick
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Literature -
2018 - 2019
National University of Singapore
Exchange program, English Literature -
2001 - 2016
Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola ikastetxea
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