Andrew Hodges
Advanced Professional Member| Location | Edinburgh |
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Book editor and coach: fiction and creative non-fiction
Services:
(1) Copyediting and line editing
(2) Developmental editing
(3) Book coaching
Niches: fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, horror
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Hi there! I’m Dr Andrew Hodges, the owner of an editorial business called The Narrative Craft.
I work primarily with indie and traditionally published authors on fiction manuscripts for publication.
My expertise is in worldbuilding and setting, and so SFF and historical fiction are the genres I work in most of all. I'm also interested in cultural considerations when crafting stories, and in how universal or culture-bound various patterns of stories are.
I especially love giving editorial feedback in these areas.
Before I became a book editor, I worked as a cultural anthropologist in the UK, Germany, and Croatia. I gained a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Manchester (2013), and I have a degree in the history of science from the University of Cambridge (2005).
I completed my editorial training with the EFA, CIEP, and PTC and have trained in fiction developmental editing, line-editing, copyediting, and proofreading.
I also write short stories and novels. Ask me about my current work in progress – a subterranean social SF novel.
Skills
1. Developmental/substantive editing
2. Line-editing
3. Copyediting
4. Proofreading
5. Book coaching
Media
- Books
- Novellas
- Short stories
- Journal articles
Experience
Full-time editorial business owner since 2019
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Researcher) – Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany (2018–2019)
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (Linguistic Anthropology) – Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb (2015–2017)
Training
- Club Ed Certificate in Developmental Editing of Fiction programme (in progress)
- Club Ed Editing Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Club Ed Editing for Character Development
- Club Ed Editing for Worldbuilding and Setting
- Club Ed Explorations: Editing Literary Fiction (in progress)
- Club Ed How to Edit Query Letters, Synopses, and More (in progress)
- EFA Intermediate Line Editing for Fiction & Creative Nonfiction (2022)
- EFA Introduction to Line Editing Fiction & Creative Nonfiction (2022)
- CIEP The Art of Querying (2022)
- CIEP Introduction to Fiction Editing (2021)
- Developmental Editing for Academics (2021)
- CIEP Copyediting 3 (Progress) – Pass (2021, 85%)
- CIEP Copyediting 2 (Headway) – Pass (2021)
- CIEP Basic Editorial Test – Pass (2020, 85%)
- PTC Essential Proofreading (Merit) (2020)
- SfEP Editing with Word (2019)
- SfEP Copyediting 1 (2019)
Clients
Besides various indie author clients, I have also collaborated with many publishers and organizations, including:
Alaska Journal of Anthropology
Bauhaus Dessau Stiftung
Berghahn Books
Bloomsbury
Brill
De Gruyter
Heinrich Böll Foundation
I.B. Tauris
Palgrave Macmillan
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung e.V.
Subjects
science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fiction
Qualifications
BA Natural Sciences (History and Philosophy of Science), University of Cambridge
MA Anthropological Research, University of Manchester
MSc History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Practitioner of Transactional Analysis
CELTA Pass A in teaching English as a foreign language
Goethe C2 German
HSK3 Mandarin Chinese (2021)
C2 Croatian exam (Distinction, 2016)
DELE B2 Spanish (2012)
Specialised software
PerfectIt
The Editor's Toolkit
Testimonials
Andrew's copyediting of my manuscript was of the highest standard. Besides his professionalism, he was also receptive to my particular needs as a multilingual author and someone new to the craft. I learned a lot about the process from him and felt confident my manuscript was in good hands. It was a rewarding experience I hope to repeat soon.
Ada Gadomski, Fantasy Author
My book The Partisan Counter-Archive would not have met the deadlines without him, and am sure, would not be nicely refined.
Dr Gal Kirn, Researcher
I knew the text was in safe, professional hands, but the depth of Andrew’s immersion in the text and his careful judgement impressed me. The final version is certainly better than I could have imagined!
Iva Babic, Fiction Author