Are you looking for an

experienced editor

who knows her stuff?

The Little Red Pen (which is me, Liz Hudson) offers editing and book-production services for writers, publishers and organisations who want a focused and professional level of attention to their work and for their readers to receive a high-quality end product.

We might be perfect for each other if:

  • you value professional, excellent work;

  • you want someone to make all the small decisions quickly but consult you on the important ones;

  • you appreciate scrupulous attention to fine detail of style;

  • you want someone you can trust to forensically read your text;

  • you don’t have time for BS, wishy-washy flattery or faint praise.

I’ve been an editor for twenty-five years.

I love what I do, and I want to work with the best.

With people who are storytellers and creatives, thinkers and communicators.

People who love ideas, culture and thought.

Who love to share what they know.

Who make mix tapes, get people together for dinner, recommend books and movies to people they like.

Who are teachers and lifelong students.

Who are generous and kind – with themselves as well as others.

Who are doing what they love for a living.

Who love to travel, to meet new people and to connect with old friends.

Who live life to the full.

You might work in the arts, as an academic, a coach, a teacher, an education professional, in social justice, literature, children’s or YA fiction, in history, storytelling, a heart-centred business, a social-policy organisation or a charity.

That would make you my kind of client.

Let’s get started.