Ms Liz Hudson | Copy-editing
Dublin, Ireland
- Website
- http://www.littleredpen.com
- Organisation
- The Little Red Pen
- Membership Grade
- Advanced Professional Member
About Liz
Services
- Development and substantive editing
- Copy-editing
- Proofreading
- Proof collation
- Project management
- Typesetting and layout
- Ebook formatting
Subjects
Academic Humanities, Biography, Cinema, Cookbooks, Creativity, Cultural Studies, Education, Feminism, Fiction, Film, Food and Drink, France, French, Gender Studies, History, Ireland, Irish Studies, Language, Lifestyle, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Mind Body Spirit, Music, New Age, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Psychology, Self-Help, Theatre and Performance Studies, Women's Studies
Media
Articles, Books, Ebooks, Journals, Reports, Websites
Clients
My recent clients include Edco: The Educational Company of Ireland, Faber, Mercier Press, The O'Brien Press, Out of House Publishing Services (Cambridge University Press, Routledge, I.B. Tauris), Pearson and Routledge as well as many independent authors and private clients.
Education and CPD
- Rewriting and Substantive Editing (Publishing Training Centre), 2016
- Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning, Merit (Publishing Training Centre), 2014
- InDesign CS5, Levels 1 and 2 (New Horizons), 2011
- Onscreen Editing, Part II (SfEP), 2009
- Onscreen Editing, Part I (SfEP), 2008
- Negotiation Skills (Publishing Training Centre), 2003
- Advanced Feature Writing (National Union of Journalists), 2001
- Introduction to Indexing (Publishing Training Centre), 2001
- Introduction to Copyediting (Publishing Training Centre), 2001
- Introduction to Journal Publishing (Publishing Training Centre), 2000
- Postgraduate Diploma in Printing and Publishing (London College of Printing), 1998
- BA (Hons), Two Subject Moderatorship in English and French (Trinity College Dublin), 1995
Testimonials
Liz Hudson was meticulous about historical veracity, courageous about making suggestions for narrative flow, and really engaged with the characters. While maintaining her natural warmth and good humour, she nevertheless pushed me to raise my game all the time and I am a better writer for it.
A gigantic thank you to Liz Hudson at [the] Little Red Pen in Dublin. Your insight and attention to detail were fantastic. You continually amazed me with your ability to enrich the story and to find experts who could weigh in on critical issues. I feel so lucky to have worked with you.
As always, my first line editor, Liz [Hudson], of the Little Red Pen, shaped and shifted and refined almost every paragraph in the book. I can never sing her praises enough.
It was an utter joy and pleasure to work with [Liz]. Not only was she my editor, but I felt like she was my partner in bringing my book to life. Her vast knowledge of the industry and her craft as an editor were invaluable to me publishing my book. Her attention to detail, love for the written word and her desire to see me succeed inspired me to keep going.
[Liz] was an assiduous reader and an extraordinarily efficient copyeditor.
It was a pleasure working with you. I’ve already passed on my strong praise of your work on the manuscript and will keep on doing it as I have worked with a lot of copy/proof editors over the years and your work was among the very best I’ve seen. I will also pass on your name to colleagues who may need a copy-editor.
[Liz's] technical ability, sense of style, appreciation of the nuances and niceties of the various topics and controversies - and her candour and curiosity - have made an important contribution to the finished volume.
A dream of an editor – meticulous, sensitive, questioning and collegiate.
I think you did a fantastic job. This is the most scrutiny anything I’ve done has had, and it helped the collection no end.
I was completely confident that the book would be beautifully put together because you were at the helm.
I am still amazed at the difference an editor can make. The collaboration with Liz Hudson and its energetic examination of details resulted in the kind of shifts I couldn’t have imagined on my own. And so the book transformed and I am convinced a kind of alchemy oversees the entire process.
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