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Celadon Books is looking for a Publicist or Senior Publicist to lead innovative publicity campaigns and manage author tours, requiring strong media relationships and project management skills.

Responsibilities: Craft and execute publicity campaigns across various media platforms, manage author tours, develop press materials, and collaborate with other teams.

Skills: Proven media relationships, project management, communication skills, and knowledge of digital media and AI tools.

Qualifications: 4-6 years of book publicity experience, organizational skills, proficiency with Sales Force and Cision, and management experience is a plus.

Location: This position is based in New York, New York, USA.

Compensation: $63000 - $70000 / Annually

Celadon Books is seeking a Publicist or Senior Publicist (title commensurate with experience) to join our dynamic, collaborative team. This role is ideal for a strategic, resourceful self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has demonstrated success executing impactful publicity campaigns across both fiction and nonfiction.

The ideal candidate will bring proven media relationships, and the ability to work independently while collaborating across departments. A track record of crafting compelling pitches, managing multi-stop author tours, and problem-solving in real time is essential.

What you'll do:

• Leverage deep knowledge of the media landscape—across legacy outlets, podcasts, newsletters, influencers, and emerging platforms—to craft innovative, customized publicity campaigns. Secure national and regional media coverage for hardcover and paperback campaigns across genres.
• Independently planning and executing author tours, including local book events, media interviews and author travel.
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with producers, editors, book reviewers, event coordinators and booksellers.
• Communicate regularly and effectively with authors and agents.
• Write and shape all press materials: pitch letters, press releases, author Q&As, and targeted media angles.
• Collaborating with the editorial, marketing, and sales teams on campaign execution.
• A deep understanding of the digital media space, including bloggers and social media, is required.

What you'll bring:

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to document and drive campaign timelines from planning through execution.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills required; must be able to communicate with authors and agents with professionalism, authority, and credibility.
• Initiative and desire to work successfully in a fast-paced, small team environment, self-directing day-to-day activities and prioritization; strong attention to detail, with an ability to follow up on items to ensure tight timelines and releases are met.
• Understanding of AI models to be used for research and development of campaigns as well as a curiosity around new uses of AI for workflow optimization, is a plus.
• Candidate must be in office as necessary for author management, group in-person brainstorms or projects, as well as select group events.

Ideal Experience:

• 4-6 years book publicity experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Proven ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, collaborative environment.
• Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented nature.
• Proficiency with Sales Force and Cision.
• Management experience is a plus.

This role will have an annual salary of $63,000-$70,000, depending on experience. 

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.