Liz Hudson
Trading as: The Little Red Pen
Dublin
Mobile phone: 085 140 0222
Telephone: 01 440 4299
Professional memberships
Advanced Professional Member, CIEP
Full Member and Vice-Chair, AFEPI
Educational qualifications
BA (Hons) in English and French (Trinity College Dublin, 1995)
P.G.Dip. in Printing and Publishing (London College of Printing, 1999)
Languages
French (fluent, B2)
Spanish (basic, A2)
Irish (basic)
Italian (beginner)
Experience
December 2004–present, The Little Red Pen
June 2000–September 2004, Senior Production Editor, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Books Ltd)
July 1999–June 2000, Production Editor, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
September 1997–December 2001, Greencard Magazine, Paris
Services offered
Copy-editing (mechanical to substantive)
Line editing
Development and structural editing
Proofreading
Project management
Typesetting
Ebook formatting
Media
Books
Reports
Journal articles
Educational material
Subject areas
Academic humanities, biography, cinema, cookbooks, creativity, cultural studies, education, feminism, fiction, film, food and drink, France, French language, 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
Clients include
Atlantic Books, Bloomsbury Academic, Ború Press, Drury, Edco: The Educational Publisher, Faber, Road Safety Authority, Routledge, Scholastic, Sport Ireland, Storytel, Swift Press, Viking
Examples of work undertaken
Adam Macqueen, Hobbe’s Folly (Swift Press, forthcoming); Shane Ross, RTÉ: Saints, Scholars and Scandals (Atlantic Books, forthcoming); Vin Burnham, Get into Costume (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); Maria Fenton, ¿Que Pasa? 1 (3rd edn, Edco, forthcoming); John Wyver, Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain (Bloomsbury/British Film Institute, 2026); Martin O’Connor, Early Childhood Intervention: Time for a New Conversation (Ború Press, 2026); Willy Vlautin, The Left and the Lucky (Faber, 2026); Robert E. Kapsis, Re-Viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2026); Sarah J. Naughton, The Shadowhunter Trilogy (Storytel, 2026–); Iain Dale, The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership (Swift Press, 2025); Emily Huggard, Creating Responsible and Inclusive Fashion Brand Narratives: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2025); ULYSSES European Odyssey (Brave New World Producties, 2024); Neal Bascomb, The Salt Thief: Gandhi’s Heroic March to Freedom (Scholastic, 2024); Daniel J. Brown, Facing the Mountain (Young Readers’ Edition, Viking, 2023); Sonia Purnell, Agent Most Wanted (Viking, 2022); Bernadette Jiwa, The Making of Her (Dutton, 2022); Jack Fairweather, A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp (Scholastic, 2021)
Testimonials
‘Liz achieves the nigh-on-impossible feat of producing an edit that a writer actually enjoys receiving. Her comments are always insightful, never petty, and her expressions of appreciation beside sections she particularly enjoys are balm to a writer’s fragile ego. I don’t know where I would be without her.’ — Sarah J. Naughton, author, 2025
‘A special shout-out … goes to Liz Hudson, whose thoughtful suggestions, rigorous feedback, and unwavering commitment to excellence have transformed my words into a work that I am truly proud of.’ — Neal Bascomb, in The Salt Thief: Gandhi’s Heroic March to Freedom, 2024, winner of the South Asia Book Award for Older Readers
‘I knew that to take my book to the next level, I would need an editor. I feel incredibly lucky that Liz ended up being the one I got to work with. She went over my manuscript with a fine tooth comb and gave me insights and suggestions that I would have never discovered on my own. Her attention to detail is unmatched and my book is all the better for it. I cannot recommend her highly enough.’ — James Hannon, author of The Thrilling Adventures of an Extremely Boring Boy, 2023