How To Join The Jumping Cats Team
As a new, small and independent publisher, Jumping Cats is focused on assembling the “right” team for each project, rather
than on hiring a permanent staff. By doing so, we can bring specific talents to specific projects and ensure greater likelihood
of success.
A small core of leadership at Jumping Cats is augmented with part-time, freelance and subcontracted talent. Jim Van Laan, as
Publisher and Managing Editor, and Virginia Sue Sinclair, as Authors’ Services Coordinator, recruit and coordinate the talents
of a select pool of resources to match a project’s needs with the skills, knowledge and experience to bring the project to a
successful completion.
What We Are Looking For
To this end, we are always seeking talented individuals who want to be part of the Jumping Cats effort.
Specifically, we are on the look-out for individuals who can contribute in the following areas:
Book Editing
- structural and substantive editing
- stylistic and paragraph-level editing
- copyediting and sentence-level editing
- proofreading
Book Design
- font selection
- trim size
- margins
- paper selection
- binding selection
- cover art
- illustration/photography creation/selection (as required)
Book Production
- book preparation for Print-On-Demand
- audio book production
- studio arrangements
- talent selection
- recording direction
Digital Services
- creation and management of the JumpingCats website
- creation and management of Authors’ webpages on the JumpingCats website
- document conversion to Ebook formats
- document conversion to PDF format for Print-On-Demand books
- digital support for marketing and promotion through Social Media
- digital support for all other promotional activities
- creation and support for all internal digital communications and systems
(Email, Text, Video conferencing, File transfers, etc.)
Marketing and Promotion
- Social Media content generation and placement
- Social Media event generation and management
- JumpingCats website content creation
- content creation for Authors’ webpages on the JumpingCats website
- general promotional activities (news release creation, placement and distribution; arranging book reviews; special event
assistance for authors; arranging remote audio and/or video interviews; arranging remote audio and/or video readings
by author; etc.)
Distribution and Legal Rights
- establishing and managing Distribution Agreements
- procuring Copyrights
- procuring ISBN numbers
- managing and procuring Non-Disclosure Agreements (when necessary)
- creating and managing Publisher-Author Agreements
Why not jump at this chance to be part of the Jumping Cats effort?
If you have the skills and the interest,
call Jim at 864-457-4134,
email him at jvanlaan@jumpingcatspublishing.com,
or write to him at 409 Elm Avenue, Landrum, SC 29356.
