HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic Publicity Intern to join the team at HQ and Mills & Boon for 6 months.

Reporting to the Head of Publicity for HQ and Mills & Boon, you will be responsible for the day-to-day administrative running of the department, as well as providing administrative support for the Publicity team, which may require travelling to and attending author and industry events. 

Specialising in commercial fiction, non-fiction and innovative digital publishing, HQ is a young, ambitious and award-winning imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.  HQ prides itself on publishing books that are bold, brave, inclusive and always with a compelling story to tell.

HQ fiction is proud to publish The Sunday Times bestselling authors such as Adele Parks, Linwood Barclay, B A Paris and Sarah Morgan. Debut novels published by HQ, The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain and This Lovely City by Louise Hare, were recently shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2021 respectively.

HQ Non-Fiction publishes The Sunday Times bestselling BOSH!, The Batch Lady and The Prison Doctor books, as well as June Sarpong’s award-winning books on Diversity and Inclusion. In 2020 HQ celebrated two industry Number 1s with the record-breaking Skincare by Caroline Hirons and the biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.

Sweeping women off their feet for over 100 years, Mills & Boon is the UKs #1 publisher of romantic fiction and won the RNA Industry Award for Publisher of the Year 2020. In the UK a Mills & Boon novel is sold once every ten seconds.  It has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time. Mills & Boon publishes Georgia Toffolo’s Sunday Times bestselling novels and historical romance by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York.

Responsibilities:

• Circulating monthly press releases to journalists

• Creating and sending HQ and HQ Digital’s monthly blogger newsletters

• Logging and circulating media coverage

• Arranging blog tours for HQ and HQ Digital titles

• Raising PO’s for the Publicity department

• Collating group pitches to journalists and festival/event programmers

• Inputting spends on the departmental budget

• Minuting team meetings and circulating notes

• Monitor blogger email inboxes for HQ and HQ Digital

• Booking and arranging travel and accommodation for author tours and events

• Serving as the publicity contact for the public and media, via phone and email so that all communication with external stakeholders is efficient and given in a timely manner

Skills Required:

• A team player with excellent communication and people skills at all levels

• Innovative and creative with a strong eye for detail

• A motivated self-starter with a ‘can-do’ attitude

• Energy, passion and enthusiasm to juggle workload under pressure, prioritise work effectively and be part of a dynamic team

• Fantastic organisation skills

• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends as required