Employment history

Editorial and Marketing Assistant
Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Key responsibilities

  • Organised the processing and sending out of author contracts, and handled other aspects such as cancellations, addendums.
  • Arranged and tracked readers’ reports, and responsible for all correspondence with readers regarding proposals, including issuing payments.
  • Responsible for organising and minuting monthly committee meetings.
  • Put together review plans for books on the literature and philosophy lists.
  • Corresponded with authors regarding cover visuals and review plans.
  • Met with authors to discuss editorial matters pre-publication.
  • Created press releases and flyers to go out with gratis copies sent to reviewers.
  • Compiled rights and permissions for forthcoming publications.
  • Collated and organised royalty statements for the current financial year.
  • Created sales reports for sales representatives worldwide.
  • Maintained the mailing list and inspection copy database.

Part-time Bookseller
Ottakars Bookstore, October, 2002 - January, 2004
Key responsibilities:

  • Assisted and served customers.
  • Checked stock and placed orders using commercial book ordering software.

Editorial Intern
Canongate Books, October 2002 - July, 2003
Key responsibilities:

  • Read submissions, prepared reader’s reports and attended editorial meetings.
  • Entered received submissions on a database.
  • Wrote content for their website.
  • Compiled rights and permissions for Modern Scottish Women Poets (Canongate, 2003).

Bookseller
Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2002
Key responsibilities:

  • Assisting and serving customers.
  • Looking after authors.
  • Managing author signings in the signing tent.
  • Displaying stock.

Sales Assistant
Bauermeister Books, October 2001 – February 2002
Key responsibilities:

  • Checking and displaying stock.
  • Assisting and serving customers.

Content Editor
www.oxfordbookstore.com, Kolkata, April - June, 2000
Key responsibilities:

  • Delegated work and ensured that work was going smoothly and according to deadline as well as checking the final product.
  • Contributing ideas that were used to create the look and the feel of the website.
  • Organised and assisted with events that were held at Oxford Bookstore.

Assistant Editor
Seagull Theatre Quarterly May - October 1999
Key responsibilities:

  • Page-setting using Quark Express and Pagemaker 5.
  • Translating and transcribing from Bengali into English.
  • Transcribing and conducting interviews.