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- supporting editorial staff in all activities leading to publication, including acting as a personal assistant to commissioning editors and overseeing tasks such as issuing contracts and dealing with royalties; - liaising with other in-house teams, writers, photographers, printers, designers and production staff to negotiate and monitor timescales for stages in the publishing process; - dealing with the administration of work commissioned to freelance writers, picture researchers, photographers, stylists and illustrators; - organising and researching projects to tight deadlines; summarising written material; correcting manuscripts; obtaining rights to use materials from other publications; using computers for word processing, desktop publishing and email; dealing with phone and email queries, e.g. from writers and the public; filing, photocopying and other routine administrative tasks.