Alex Goodwin – Editor

In August 2019, I set up my own editorial freelance business. Recent projects have included copy-editing part of a major dossier on Iran's networks of influence and a sweeping structural edit of an academic textbook on US–Latin American relations.

I edited and project-managed Armed Conflict Survey and Strategic Survey, two flagship annuals published by The International Institute for Strategic Studies, one of the world’s foremost think-tanks on defence and security issues.

At one of the world’s leading illustrated publishers, my role was to project manage several titles in our US college list from development stages to sign-off, including copy-editing, commissioning illustrators and working with designers and picture researchers to produce high-level, high-quality educational textbooks.

At the Cornerstones Literary Consultancy I reviewed manuscripts, wrote in-depth reports and mentored authors. I specialised in literary and crime fiction, with one previously unpublished client securing a three-book deal with a major trade publisher after we had worked together. I offered 360-degree edits, providing structural critiques, suggestions for line edits and assessing market suitability.

At the Rogers, Coleridge and White literary agency I worked alongside two primary agents, supporting a list of more than one hundred authors. I edited manuscripts and proposals through multiple drafts in the areas of commercial, crime and literary fiction and narrative non-fiction; read the unsolicited manuscript submissions and found several authors who later secured publishing deals (including Ginny Baily, Stephen Grosz, Malcolm Mackay and Simon Stephenson); negotiated contracts with major trade publishers; and pitched clients' works to newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasters, publishing houses and audio publishers.