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Deep Editor (Fiction)

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Deep Editor (Fiction)

4 Weeks ago • 2 Years + • Editorial

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Job Description

Inkitt seeks a Deep Editor (Fiction) to perform a full suite of editorial services, from developmental editing to proofreading. Responsibilities include reading full-length novels and editorial briefs, developing comprehensive editing plans, collaborating with authors to restructure and rewrite books, ensuring top-quality language and formatting, and providing comprehensive reporting on manuscript changes. The ideal candidate possesses at least 2 years of experience editing professional English-language fiction, a deep understanding of the Romance genre (contemporary, fantasy, erotica), and the ability to meet deadlines and work autonomously. The role requires creative problem-solving and collaboration with authors and Inkitt's internal team. This is a remote, contract position.

Must have:

2+ years editing experience
Romance genre expertise (contemporary, fantasy, erotica)
Strong collaboration skills
Meets deadlines, works autonomously
Full editorial service capabilities

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

What You'll Do:

Be prepared to perform a full suite of editorial services - from Developmental Editing to Proofreading.
Read full-length novels and Editorial Briefs and develop comprehensive plans for how to edit the books.
Work in collaboration with authors of books to restructure and rewrite books to bring them up to top-quality standards.
Take creative jumps to radically improve books while staying true to what readers love about them.
Ensure that the language quality of the books is of top standard and that the books are correctly formatted.
Provide comprehensive reporting on the changes made to manuscripts.

What You'll Bring:

Minimum 2 years experience of editing professional English-language fiction
A love for and deep understanding of the Romance genre, particularly with a focus on contemporary, fantasy, and erotica
Comfortability with working collaboratively with authors and Inkitt's internal team to edit books
A proven track record of being able to meet deadlines and work autonomously

At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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About The Company

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We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed. Therefore, our mission is to discover hidden talents and turn them into globally successful authors.

Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Hits that are identified by our algorithm, are then licensed to and distributed on our Galatea app where we systematically generate blockbusters by A/B testing the content of our stories. This process is our own unique creation, and something which has never before been done in the entertainment industry.

At present, we are an international team of 85 passionate and dedicated inventors and entrepreneurs and we are growing quickly. We are proud that our mission has persuaded early investors in Google and Spotify to back us, as well as attracted talents from Netflix, Activision Blizzard, DeliveryHero, Babbel, and N26 to join us.

We invent new solutions to problems we encounter, as opposed to simply iterating upon existing solutions.

Join us to build the Disney of the 21st Century!

FT1000: #8 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe 2023