A Day In The Life Of An Editorial Assistant...

Hello ETA Blog readers,


My name is Amber and you might know me as the Book Reviewer Team Co-ordinator but my main role with ETA Publishing House is called an Editorial Assistant. 


Today I thought that it would be interesting for you to have an insight into my day, what I do and you can see the behind the scenes of certain parts of my role.


I want to start of by saying that Editorial Assistants get involved in all aspects of the Publishing World and all Editorial roles are a little different even here at ETA Publishing House. So what I do in my day could be completely different to what you do in your day, even if you are an Editorial Assistant too, but hey if it works it works!




Check emails


First of all I always check my emails to see what's going on today, if there are any changes needed or if someone needs a little help with something.
I speak to Bloggers and reviewers via email and I also communicate with colleagues too.




Go on Twitter


Then I head over to Twitter, we have a separate account on twitter for the ETA Book Review Club (@etabookclub) where reviewers can connect and we can also find book lovers looking to review books.


I follow back anyone who has followed us and I reply to any tweets or DM’s, I also send out at least 1 tweet a day about our books, becoming a reviewer or exciting announcements.




Update Instagram


Our Instagram (@etapublishing) is where I share short videos from our YouTube channel, book covers and relatable quotes and pictures.
We also use our instagram story quite a lot so keep an eye out on there…




YouTube 


We have a series on YouTube about our book club where I share my review on the book that month, I film myself talking about the book, if I enjoyed it and I give away spoiler alerts so if you haven't read the particular book yet don’t watch the video! 


I then edit the video I've just filmed using iMovie. I add our social media names on screen and leave the link to everything you’ll need in the description.


Fortunately uploading the videos doesn’t take that long because I keep the videos short and sweet.




Facebook and LinkedIn


I share every blog post, youtube video etc on FaceBook and LinkedIn too, so if you haven't got a twitter account you can follow us there, so you’ll never miss a thing.




Blog


I get to connect with Bloggers and throughout November and December we have a lot of exciting guest posts booked in, I arrange with the Bloggers the titles and what they’re about and we set a deadline for the post to be in.
A lot of months in advance go into planning these blog posts and we are really proud of them.
Once I receive the blog posts I then proofread them for any spelling mistakes and then send it over to my wonderful boss Cauline ( shoutout to you, Cauline ) and she proofreads them too.
Then we upload the post every Thursday but I usually write them up, edit if needed and add hyperlinks to everything a few days before.




Updating Databases and processing orders


I get to update any book databases with the current up to date book information and ISBN numbers (there is a lot of technical talk here so I won't go into it all) and I put orders of books through and send them to very important people!




Competitions

We have recently decided to run a monthly competition called Reviewer Of The Month, this competition is for our Book reviewers only so if you want to be in with a chance of featuring on our website, being named our ROTM and receiving a little prize then sign up here.
How ROTM works is we set a deadline for all book reviews to be in by, we then choose 3 of the top reviews with most detail and explanation in and we then pick our favourite one. (Sometimes the authors are going to help too, how exciting!)


And then I like to finish my day with a hot drink, preferably a hot chocolate and reading one of ETA’s brilliant books, you can find our books here.