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Hosted by Andy Hodges · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 18 episodes
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The Freelancer explores the fiction publishing world through a queer, social justice lens. It’s for authors and industry professionals committed to building thoughtful, lasting careers. It covers how to sustain creative work in ways that prioritize care, relationship-building, and long-term artistic practice over the relentless grind of capitalism, tech-bro disruption narratives, and AI hype. New episodes will drop when I have the energy!
Andy Hodges hosts The Freelancer, a arts show with 18 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Today I'm chatting with Sophie Playle, a fiction editor and course creator highly regarded in the editorial world for her fiction developmental editing and line/copyediting courses. We discuss her journe
Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about book editor visibility. tl;dr: For most editors, visibility is an optional strategy, not a necessity Tune in to hear how: Visibility isn't something you have to do if you're an
Send us Fan Mail In today's ep I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic of Shtriga Books again! Today we discuss inclusive language and nonbinary gender in Croatian language and fiction. We explore how culturally specific the dis
Send us Fan Mail In the last episode of 2025, I discuss how the year went from a business and marketing perspective. 2025 was a big experiment in running my business without social media. Things didn't go exactly to plan
Send us Fan Mail How does publishing work outside the Anglosphere? In today's ep, I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic, owner of Shtriga Books – a small press in Croatia publishing queer speculative fiction. We discuss how th
Send us Fan Mail Why do you read stories? What keeps you turning the page? Wish fulfilment is one possible answer! Tune in to hear other reasons, alongside a chat about wish fulfilment in romance and dystopian fiction, t
Send us Fan Mail This week's ep is all about how we balance our editing, coaching, and writerly selves and businesses! 😍 We discuss the query trenches, writing routines and habits, whether you need to be a writer to coa
Send us Fan Mail This week's ep is all about lit mags! ✨ If you're exploring this space and trying to figure it out, this podcast ep is for you. I discuss how to find the right magazine for your story, the importance of
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2! Yay! Today's topic is decolonizing fiction craft, and I'm chatting with the book coach and fiction editor Karen Parker. We cover everything from the hero's journey and remakes to the
Send us Fan Mail Story structure is one issue fiction editors love to disagree about. At one end of the spectrum, some promote rigid templates, while others say "anything goes." In this episode, I cover ... the problem w
Send us Fan Mail Psychotherapists and counsellors often feature in TV, film, and books. While there are all sorts of good story reasons to include them, they often do unrealistic things like sit in very nice offices and
Send us Fan Mail Today is all about niching! Do you need one as a book editor? What will your clients say or think? How will they find you? And are niches necessary – or always a bad thing? Tune in for some fresh perspec
Send us Fan Mail Social media marketing isn't for everyone, and for small business owners, it comes with several tricky traps and challenges attached. Junk AI content and tech bro CEOs aligned with hard-right governments
Send us Fan Mail Is generative AI making the publishing world a better place? Or is it leaving a bad taste? So far, it's pretty clear to me there's a lot of hype, stolen data, angry authors, some benefits, and a truckloa
Send us Fan Mail It's all take, take, take! This week is all about how extraction – a pattern of one-sided taking from others – can show up in our small businesses. I cover how it's hardwired into big businesses, and how
Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is all about how editors can get trapped in a cycle of satisfying and interesting but low-paid work for Big 5 publishers. #opensecrets I call this cycle a prestige trap, and explore the a
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 1! Today I'm discussing all the problems I see with self-publishing from my fiction editor perspective. First, I discuss my values misalignment with the self-publishing industry. Then
Send us Fan Mail This is a trailer for a new show called The Free Lancer. The Free Lancer is a show discussing all things publishing through a queer, social justice lens. It’s for authors and editors navigating the indus
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