Rachael's Job Hub 📚

🎉 15 applications in the field (10 on July 15, 5 more on 7/27). Statuses below. Three of your applied listings (Fablelistik, Holt, Mashable) have since closed: that is NORMAL and often good news; it usually means they have enough applicants and are reviewing. Your applications are in those piles. All 15 applications are confirmed in. 📎 links on each card hold the packet files you used. No reply after ~10 days is normal; follow-up drafts come on schedule. The moment an interview lands, tell us — prep packet within the day. 🍀

Macmillan (6 applications)

Editorial Assistant, FSG LISTING OPEN · APPLIED

Remote · $50,000 · applied 7/15

🔗 Job posting · verified still accepting 7/21

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Associate Editor, Fablelistik Editions APPLIED · LISTING NOW CLOSED

Remote · applied 7/15 · listing closed by 7/21 (your application is in their pile)

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Editorial Assistant, Flatiron LISTING CLOSED

Remote · $50,000 · closed before/around 7/15

Gone from Macmillan's posted jobs, and LinkedIn's apply flow is disabled. If you DID get an application in before it shut, note it below. Closed listings often repost; it stays on our watch list.

Editorial Assistant, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers APPLIED · LISTING NOW CLOSED

Remote · $50,000 · applied 7/15 · listing closed by 7/21 (application is in)

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Assistant Managing Editor LISTING OPEN · APPLIED

Remote · applied 7/15

🔗 Macmillan careers · verified still posted 7/21

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Immersive Internship 2026-27 LISTING OPEN · APPLIED

Remote · paid · applied 7/15

🔗 Macmillan careers · verified still posted 7/21

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Other publishers & media (6)

Writer/Editor, Blackstone Publishing APPLIED

Remote · applied 7/15 · listing status unverifiable from outside

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Publicist, Blackstone Publishing APPLIED

Remote · applied 7/15 with your own materials

Penguin Random House — remote internships APPLIED

Remote · paid · applied 7/15 with your own materials

🔗 PRH internships page

Editorial Assistant, Brilliance Publishing APPLIED

Grand Haven · applied 7/15

🔗 amazon.jobs Grand Haven · editorial roles still active there as of 7/21

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Social Media Manager, Kensington LISTING CLOSED

Was open-to-remote · closed before/around 7/15

Gone from LinkedIn and their careers page. If you applied before it shut, note it below. Kensington stays on the watch list for future openings.

Digital Culture Associate Editor, Mashable APPLIED · LISTING NOW CLOSED

US Remote · applied 7/15 · listing closed by 7/21 (application is in)

Round 3 (5 applications, applied 7/27)

Associate Editor, Bramble · Tor Publishing Group APPLIED

Remote · $60,000–65,000 · applied 7/27

🔗 Job posting

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Editor, Bloom Books (Romance) · Sourcebooks APPLIED

Remote (MI) · $55,000–70,000 · applied 7/27 · stretch application

🔗 Job posting

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Operations Associate · Blackstone Publishing APPLIED

Remote · applied 7/27

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Production Manager, eBooks & Backlist · Sourcebooks APPLIED

Remote (MI) · applied 7/27

🔗 Job posting

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Publishing Quality Assurance Lead · Sourcebooks APPLIED

Remote (MI) · applied 7/27

🔗 Job posting

📎 Your packet files (.zip, login required)

Fresh from the July 27 hunt: three openings, two of them unusually strong. Answer fast; good listings have been closing within days.

Lecture Agent · Macmillan NEW · ACTUAL AGENT WORK

Remote · $62,000–70,000 · posted 7/21, verified live 7/27

This is the most literally agent-shaped job we have ever found. You would represent Macmillan authors for speaking engagements: pitching them to conferences and universities, negotiating their fees and contracts, and being their main point of contact. It is the agent craft (representation, negotiation, author relationships) with books all around it.

The honest catch: they ask 3+ years in talent representation, publishing, PR, events, or business development, "or a related field." Six years running your own client business and negotiating your own contracts is a real answer to that.

🔗 View the job posting

Fall Internship, Managing Editorial · Sourcebooks NEW · PAID · MI-REMOTE

Remote (Michigan on their state list, verified) · $17/hour · 21 hrs/week · Sept 14 to Nov 21

Paid, remote, editorial-track, and explicitly open to recent graduates, so you qualify. Managing editorial is the same lane as the Macmillan AME role you applied to; this is the internship version at the publisher where you already have four applications in. Part-time hours leave room for photography income.

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Publicist · Prickly Paradigm Press NEW · details being verified

Remote, US · posted ~6 days ago on PW JobZone · pay/hours not yet published

A tiny, sharp scholarly press (distributed by the University of Chicago Press) hiring a remote publicist. At a press this small you would work directly with authors and the publisher on everything, which is the contact-rich environment you want. Same publicity lane as the Blackstone role you applied to. We are still verifying pay and whether it is full-time; a YES here means "verify it, and if it checks out, build my packet."

🔗 Listing on PW JobZone

Your tailored resumes, cover letters, and writing samples: one folder per application, editable Word files, ZIP download per packet. Enter the password below (Peipei has it) and everything loads right here.

Frame not loading? Open the packets page directly. Fix anything highlighted yellow in Word/Google Docs, export to PDF, submit, and send back your final versions so the records match what employers received.