Posted by Kate on May 15, 2012
In a month, Leen is leaving us to go back to Oxford and academic publishing. We are sad.
But it means that we have an opportunity for a hardworking, bright and enthusiastic graduate to join our team at Nosy Crow on a full-time basis, working in the London office of Nosy Crow near London Bridge and starting in June 2012.
You’ll need at least a BA (Hons) degree (or equivalent) in any subject, and a strong interest in children’s books, in other cultures and languages, and in digital publishing and marketing.
You’ll have excellent written and spoken communication skills in English combined with a good grasp of arithmetic. You’ll be organised but also outgoing.
In an ideal world…
- You’ll be able to speak one or more languages in addition to English
- You’ll have strong IT skills and an interest in and engagement with using digital channels to promote books and apps – you might write a book-based blog yourself, for example
- You’ll have had some experience of selling (anything – doesn’t matter what)
The main role of the publishing assistant is to work with the managing director on selling rights and co-editions to international publishers. While the job is predominantly an administrative role, there’s the opportunity for this to grow into a selling role, and the publishing assistant would, for example, attend international book fairs where they would have their own appointments.
The publishing assistant will also support the digital project and marketing manager on our programme of digital publishing, particularly our programme of award-winning apps, and our web and social media marketing.
Please send Kate Wilson your CV, accompanied by an application letter, as soon as possible via email (kate@nosycrow.com).
Closing date 25 May 2012.
Posted by Tom on May 15, 2012
We have a very exciting new series launching this September. The first volume of The Grunts – The Grunts in Trouble – written by Philip Ardagh and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, will be published, and we’re getting ready now!
You can watch Philip and Axel talking about the book – and the experience of collaborating together – in the video interview above. And there’ll be all sorts of funny, mad (and slightly grubby…) stuff happening in the next few months: a brand new website launching, a brilliantly fun app for your iPhone or iPad, and lots more – so watch this space! This week, I’m reading one of our latest proofs:
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Posted by Tom on May 11, 2012
I know that it’s only May, but in typically British fashion, the one good day of weather we’ve had this week has already brought on all sorts of wishful thinking in the Crow’s Nest about the Summer months and – naturally – accompanying reading materials.
Last year we blogged about some of our all-time favourite Summer reads, and truthfully, my own choices have not changed greatly since then: The Famous Five, A Spoonful of Jam, and Calvin and Hobbes would still top my list.
But something else has renewed my interest in summer reading – we’ve just had advance copies of some upcoming Nosy Crow titles arrive, and these two in particular have a distinctly estival tone:
First up is Vulgar the Viking and the Great Gulp Games, the second book in our Vulgar the Viking series, whose publication in June happily coincides with a similar-sounding sporting event taking place later on in the Summer. Vulgar is determined that this year, the village of Blubber won’t be clobbered in the Great Gulp Games by their competition from neighbouring Gulp, and so he begins training in earnest with the help of all his friends. You certainly won’t find goat-hurdling or walrus-wrestling at the Olympics (and all the poorer they shall be for it, too).
And also out next month is the fourth volume of our Olivia series by Lyn Gardner, Olivia’s Enchanted Summer:
Olivia finds herself at the world-famous Edinburgh Festival with the Swan Circus, but things don’t go smoothly – the Circus ends up homeless, there’s a thief in their midst and, in typically Scottish fashion, it won’t stop raining. Can anything turn Olivia’s soggy summer into an enchanted one?
Finally, I can’t not mention my current read – a proof copy of Catherine Wilkins’ hilarious debut, My Best Friend and Other Enemies, which is out from September (and will make fantastic back-to-school fiction then):
What are your Summer reading plans?
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