I don't use social media for my business because it doesn't fit my values, and I find it a time sink. So I've added my CV details and qualifications here.

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For my academic research background, check out:

 

• my book on football fan activism in Croatia

• my ResearchGate and Google Scholar profiles

 

I have a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Manchester, a master’s degree in the history of science from the University of Manchester, and a degree in natural sciences (maths, psychology, history and philosophy of science) from the University of Cambridge.

 

Over the past few years, I have worked on titles for academics publishers including the Alaska Journal of Anthropology, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Berghahn, Bloomsbury, Brill, I.B. Tauris, Routledge, De Gruyter, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Palgrave Macmillan, and the University of Toronto Press.

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For fiction, I've worked for Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and St. Martin's Press, among others.

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I'm an advanced professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. I completed my copyediting training with them. On the other side of the pond, I'm a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association and the LGBTQ+ Editors Association.  

 

I've completed comprehensive training in fiction developmental editing with Club Ed and fiction line editing with the EFA. This training included feedback on a full developmental edit from Jennifer Lawler, who has over twenty years' experience in this area. You can find the training details on my CIEP directory entry.

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Current role​​

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2019–Present: Editorial Business Owner – The Narrative Craft

• Full-time UK sole trader from July 2019, responsible for marketing, client acquisition, and sales.

• Proficient in digital marketing, content marketing, blogging, and SEO.

• Detailed knowledge of New Hart’s Rules and The Chicago Manual of Style.

• Proficient use of industry-standard editing tools (Word Styles, Macros, PerfectIt, The Editor’s Toolkit).

• Editorial client portfolio (see website) includes NYT bestselling authors, Hugo Finalists, and more. Publisher clients have included Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House (Viking, Putnam, and Philomel imprints), and HarperCollins (Harper Fire imprint).

• Non-fiction editorial experience in developmental editing and line/copyediting many books for academic university and trade presses (see portfolio)

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​​Training

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​Club Ed (2021–2023)

• Club Ed Certificate in Developmental Editing of Fiction programme (a comprehensive programme that includes feedback on a full developmental edit from an editor and literary agent with over twenty years' experience)

 

The programme includes these courses:

• Advanced Developmental Editing

• Explorations: Editing Literary Fiction

• Coaching Writers

• How to Edit Query Letters, Synopses, and More

• Editing for Point of View and Perspective

• Editing for Plot and Story Structure

• Editing Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Editing for Character Development

• Editing for Worldbuilding and Setting

• Editing the Romance

• Editing Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense

• Self-paced Introduction to Fiction Developmental Editing

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British Centre for Literary Translation

• Summer School for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin literary translation into English

 

Editorial Freelancers Association

• EFA Editing Young Adult Fiction

• EFA Advanced Line Editing of Commercial Fiction (2025)

• EFA Intermediate Line Editing for Fiction & Creative Nonfiction (2022)

• EFA Introduction to Line Editing Fiction & Creative Nonfiction (2022)

• EFA Copyediting Fiction (2022)

 

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading

• 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%)

• SfEP Editing with Word (2019)

• SfEP Copyediting 1 (2019)

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Qualifications

 

2008–13: University of Manchester, PhD in Social Anthropology

2007–8: University of Manchester, MA Anthropological Research (Merit)

2005–6: University of Manchester, MSc in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Distinction)

2002–5: Clare College, University of Cambridge, BA (hons) Natural Sciences (2.1) (Mathematics, Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science)

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• Practitioner of the counselling modality transactional analysis; completed approximately 140 hours of advanced training and 100 hours of personal therapy as part of my training

• I have written academic monographs on youth subcultures in Croatia (football fans) and write YA second-world fantasy fiction.

• CELTA Pass A in teaching English as a foreign language

• Goethe C2 German (2019)

• HSK3 Mandarin Chinese (2021)

• C2 Croatian exam (Distinction, 2016)

• DELE B2 Spanish certificate (2012)

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Previous employment

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2018–19: Academic researcher at the Leibniz Institute of East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany

• I wrote and published a multi-authored monograph on the recent cultural history of shipbuilding in Croatia and Poland. Monograph published in German with Suhrkamp (2022) and in English with University of Toronto Press (2024).

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2014–17: Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia

• I wrote, published, and promoted a monograph on youth subcultures (football fan and punk) in Croatia with the academic publisher Routledge.

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2013–14: Foreign language instructor & copyeditor of literary texts at the English Studies Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Novi Sad, Serbia​

• I copyedited texts by various academics and literary figures, including the SF theorist Darko Suvin.