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Updated July 20 with your answers baked in. Your YESes and MAYBEs are marked; the NOs are gone (Wave Literary, Princeton, Entangled, Sourcebooks marketing, Notre Dame — plus we dropped every marketing role from the pipeline). Six new options at the bottom.
Since you love fantasy & sci-fi: Macmillan also owns Tor, the biggest SFF publisher in the world. No Tor openings this week — it's now on permanent watch, and working anywhere at Macmillan puts you one internal transfer away.
Update: per your note — this IS entry-level ("prior work in publishing helpful, but not required" is in the posting). Your packet will include a tailored resume + cover letter naming FSG fiction you love; you'll need a 350–500 word writing sample.
Packet in preparation. Your photography portfolio does real work in this one.
🔗 Macmillan careers (search "Fablelistik")
Nonfiction isn't your favorite genre, but the letter leads with your journalism training — it's your strongest objective qualification, and imprint moves happen.
Your nanny years just became resume material — real familiarity with what kids actually read, plus your energetic YES on YA. Steppingstone framing, exactly as you said.
Foot in Macmillan's door; your business-owner organization is the pitch.
Your question, answered: not students-only — 18+, HS grad, US-based. It's their main pipeline to full-time hires (not a guarantee, but the highest-probability paid entry at Macmillan). Suggest YES.
You said paid roles come first — agreed, these never displace a real application. They're résumé lines that make the paid applications stronger.
Honest answer to your condition: it rarely converts to a staff job directly — its value is the credential ("Reviewer, Publishers Weekly") on applications like FSG. A few hours a month, not a career track. Your call.
30-minute application, instant "literary journal reader" résumé line. Unpaid — so only if the time feels free to you.
Same logic as #8. If you only do one of the two, do this one (MFA-affiliated journal, fiction genre).
The best-fit of Blackstone's remote openings — we're verifying the listing and preparing your packet. Their list is heavy on fantasy/sci-fi/thrillers, your favorites.
Flagging honestly: you said no marketing. Publicity is different (pitching books to media/reviewers, author events) but it's next door. Only if that distinction matters to you.
Note: we dropped the Putnam Marketing Assistant half of this card per your no-marketing rule. The internships remain — same logic as Macmillan's, and you're eligible for these as a recent grad too.
We're finding you a GVSU alumni referral (28.6% of their staff went to your school) so you don't have to apply cold. Verifying the listing is live.
Kept per your note: not the role you want, but it's inside publishing, pays above assistant level, and their list (romance/thrillers/mysteries) overlaps your genres. Steppingstone framing.
Paid and live. Two honest caveats: education books (not fiction), and it's publicity — same adjacency question as #11.
The info you asked for: temp production coordination at a scholarly press — schedules, files, vendor handoffs; teaches how books get made physically. One flag given your Notre Dame answer: Georgetown is also a Catholic (Jesuit) university. Scholarly press, not devotional — but your call, same as before.
Backfills so the pipeline stays full. All genuinely remote, all editorial craft — but media/content companies, not publishing. Ranked last on purpose; they keep income and editing bylines flowing while the book jobs play out.
Real associate-editor title at a major digital outlet; your A&E editor experience maps directly. Not books — but it's paid editorial with a big byline.
🔗 Ziff Davis careers (Mashable's parent)
Serious editing craft on serious prose. Subject matter is far from fiction — include only if steady remote editing work appeals as a bridge.
🔗 lawfaremedia.org (careers)
Likely the best-paying option on this whole list. Trade-off: legal-tech content, zero books. Pure bridge.
Full-time remote editor title with benefits. Weakest topic fit on the list — here for completeness.