James Munro Email & Phone Number

New York, NY

• Submitted our children’s/YA titles worldwide with a view to licensing them for translation. Took the lead on submitting children’s/YA titles domestically to audio publishers and negotiating the licenses.
• Prepared for and attended the Bologna and Frankfurt Book Fairs to meet with international editors, co-agents, and book/TV/film scouts. Planned events for our visiting authors.
• Assisted with licensing dramatic rights so theatres could adapt our clients’ books for the stage. Helped build a database of production company/studio contacts that may be interested in optioning our projects for.
• Administrative duties: drafting, reviewing, and routing contracts; assisting our clients’ applications for tax exemption; tracking payments.
• Managed an intern on a permanent basis.

New York, New York

• Submitted material to foreign publishers and subagents with an aim to sell the rights to authors’ works worldwide. Applied my knowledge to foreign publishers’ lists and kept abreast of deals.
• Read manuscripts in a professional capacity and wrote coverage in order to give agents a perspective on which foreign publishing houses may be a good fit.
• Logged deals to begin the contract issuing process. Maintained an organized record of clients’ accounting.
• Administrative duties: scheduling; mailing checks and contracts; distributing foreign editions to domestic agents.

New York, New York

• Worked in support of agents and their assistants, reviewing manuscripts to aid in managing clients’ and prospective clients’ work. I was often called upon to write reader’s reports, rejection letters and editorial.
• Proficient working with BAITS, entering both foreign and domestic contracts. Organised royalty statements.
• Familiar with finance, contracts, submissions, subsidiary rights, and digital. I worked with staff in all departments to assist in all manner of administrative duties.
• Assessed work submitted by unsigned authors. I was trusted to reject any material deemed a poor fit for Writers House and request more from anyone I felt should be considered further.

Seo-gu, Gwangju, Korea

• Aided a local news magazine in proofreading an array of articles on varying topics concerning South Korea’s culture and expatriates’ lifestyles.
• Used the Microsoft Office package to efficiently correct and resubmit documents to meet strict deadlines for publication.

Seo-gu, Gwangju, Korea

• Prepared lessons and taught a wide range of English language material to children ranging from 5 to 15 years old. The varying sizes of the classes and range of the students’ abilities meant that I had to create.
• Assisted in interviews, evaluating native Korean teachers’ level of conversational English.
• Prepared extra material, including appropriate supplements to use in one-on-one tutoring with children of a high level of English.
• Taught intensive class periods in which extra morning classes would be added to my schedule, demanding a highly organized approach in order to complete the material in a limited time frame.

English And American Literature, 2:1

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