I know many of you are wondering the status of your copy editor applications. Not to worry, the fact that you haven’t heard isn’t a reason for panic, but only means I’ve had to triage my to-do list and that has fallen to the bottom. However, now that my travel is done until late February and I have no more presentations (or workshops) to plan for, I’m going to be addressing all copy editor tests and applications in the next two weeks. Thank you for your patience.

In the meantime, I’m also going to be hiring two more freelance content/developmental editors. Before you get excited, please read this carefully: I am only hiring experienced editors–editors experienced in editing fiction books, in the genres I’m going to specify. Please do not apply if you don’t have experience, as I will be forced to delete your email, without response, given the time constraints on my schedule. I’m very sorry to have to limit this, as I think there are potential candidates out there who may not have experience, but may have the necessary skills. Unfortunately, I simply don’t have time to devote to training unexperienced editors at this stage.

The position is paid on a scaled flat fee based on various freelance tasks the editor will perform for Carina Press, from reading submissions, line editing, developmental edits and revision letters. The work is strictly freelance, invoicing is done every two weeks, and your work schedule will be up to you to determine, with the only requirement being that given deadlines are strictly met.

I am currently looking for two editors who are interested in editing the following genres: I need one editor interested in romance–specifically erotic romance, but other genres of romance as well. Of course, it’s fine if you wish to edit other genres in addition to romance/erotic romance, but I specifically need editors who enjoy erotic romance and are experienced with it. I also need an editor with interest in and experience with science fiction, fantasy and any associated subgenres. Again, it’s a bonus if you’re open to other genres as well, so don’t feel you’d be limited to those genres.

To apply, send an email of interest addressed to me at generalinquiries@carinapress.com In your email, please detail your experience including what publishers or authors you’ve worked with, how you conduct the developmental and line edit process, and if you’re comfortable with editing digitally. In addition, please list the genres you’re interested in editing, and how you view the editor/author relationship. Only applicants sending emails containing all of the requested information will be considered.

Permission to forward this post is granted. Questions will be answered in the comments, if necessary.

Late, this post is late, so late! Today has been a Monday, on so many levels and a few times I’ve been tempted to just shut down the computer and try again tomorrow. I hope no one else had a day like that! But I don’t get paid to give up, so here I am, still chugging along. I have one more item on my to-do list for the day before I actually shut down. Payables for 2009 are being closed down, so all invoices have to be turned in, from freelance editing to expense reports, so I spent some time today devoted to that. I spent all day on email. There seems to be a never-ending supply of that!

Last week seemed like such a short week, but really it was only shortened by one day! You’ve all seen the post on the missing emails now, so I’ll tell you that I spent a portion of several days last week working with the Help Desk to try and locate them. They were fairly convinced that I’d accidentally deleted or misfiled them, so they remotely took control of my computer and went through my email to see if they could find them. It’s weird to have someone else working on your computer remotely. Very odd. Unfortunately, they didn’t find them. Honestly, I’d have been happy to take 100% responsibility for whatever happened to them if only we could find them. I still have my fingers crossed that they’ll magically appear, but that’s looking less likely as the days pass and we don’t recover them.

On a more positive note, the copy editor applicants (and tests) are rolling in, we’re moving quickly through submissions now, and we targeted five more books for acquisition last week in a variety of genres. I think that will be the Carina Press word of the moment: acquisition. It’s all about acquisition right now! Something did come up that made me think it might be interesting for us to do a post on the cost of submissions. I have the blog content planned for the next week, but I’ll try and get that post up in the next few weeks. Someone remind me if I forget!

Coming up this week, I’ll be posting the final acquisition from Christmas week, and also a few more posts introducing the Carina Press team members. Slowly but surely they’re getting those posts in. I may have to nag a few of them, though. On my own to-do list is a lot of correspondence with the editors, setting up our editorial steps and style because these books are ready to be edited! So I’ll be working on mostly editorial this week, because I’ll also be going over the copy editor applications, and sending more tests out. Oh, and I have lots of phone calls scheduled with incoming Carina authors. Wheee! It’s going to be a busy (but productive) week.