Acquisitions/Formatting Intern

Acquisitions/Formatting Intern - Leonardo Audio

For those interested in careers in digital publishing, small presses, acquisitions, E-books and audiobooks. 

• Working with the Acquisitions Editor, you will identify authors and titles that match our editorial profile, help to formulate editorial strategy using market and sales data, review query letters and manuscripts, and help create rights-deal memos and choose contract deal points, all while getting access to an audiobook-forward publishing entity.
• You will work on formatting manuscripts and copy-editing.
• You will communicate across company departments including marketing and design, PR, branding and social media, web design, and audiobook production.

Ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter, excited to explore discover underrepresented and unpublished authors, and read submissions.

Applicant has some experience in digital publishing file formats, Kindle Create, Amazon's web platform, as well as working with file conversions between docx, pdf, and other epub formats. This role requires proofreading and file QA, macro-edit and copy-edit processes.

10 hrs/week. Mostly unpaid/volunteer for experience. 

At full completion of successful internship, candidate will receive a $150 stipend. (Frequently after the semester, interns become waged staffers.)

Our studio/office is in Central Square, Cambridge, MA. 

However, this role can be fully remote.

Only required meeting is a 1-hour all-staff Zoom meeting on Wednesdays or Thursdays at 8pm ET.

Check out who we are at https://www.leonardoaudio.com.