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Reader’s Reports

  • Alexandra Dodd

    Reader’s Reports
    Fact Checking
    Proofreading
    Developmental Editing
    Copy Editing
    Guidance & Input on Book Cover Design

    I am a multi-genre writer, editor, and researcher.
    I have contributed texts to numerous books, art catalogues, monographs, and
    exhibition projects that bring together visual, literary, and archival
    cultures—particularly in ‘post’-colonial, ‘post’-Apartheid, and ‘post’-traumatic
    contexts. These include The Interpreters: South Africa’s New Non-fiction (Soutie
    Press, 2025); Johannes Phokela: Only Sun in the Sky Knows How I Feel (A Lucid
    Dream) (Zeitz MOCAA, 2023) and An Anthology of Non-Conformism: Rebel Wom!n,
    Words, Ways, and Wonders     (DIO Press, 2024).
    I am the author of David Goldblatt: The Last Interview (Steidl, 2019), the editor of
    Nicola Brandt’s The Distance Within (Steidl, 2025), and a co-editor of Stockholm
    Cosmologies     (Liljevalchs, 2025) and Radical Solidarity: A Reader (Zeitz MOCAA,
    2023), among others.
    I’ve edited numerous novels, memoirs, non-fiction essay collections, and academic
    journals. I excel in structural and non-mother-tongue English language editing. As a vegan, I’m inspired by speculative fiction and narrative-led culture change.
    I hold a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University, a Master of Arts (Creative
    Writing) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a PhD (Literature) from the University of Cape Town.

    Preferred genres: Narrative non-fiction, Novels, and Memoirs with an essayistic, philosophical, or speculative bent.

    Contact Alexandra at thisalexandradodd@gmail.com

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  • Nerine Dorman

    Reader’s Reports
    Editing
    Writing Coach

    Nerine Dorman is a South African author and editor of science fiction and fantasy currently living in Cape Town, with short fiction published in numerous anthologies. She is a contributor to the Locus Award-winning Afro-Centered Futurism in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon (Bloomsbury, 2024), which was also the winner of the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction. Her novel Sing down the Stars won Gold for the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature in 2019 and The Percy Fitzpatrick Award for Children’s and Youth Literature in 2021. Her YA fantasy novella, Dragon Forged, was a finalist in the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature in 2017, and she is the curator of the South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment event and short story competition. Her short story “On the Other Side of the Sea” (Omenana, 2017) was shortlisted for a 2018 Nommo award. Her novella The Firebird won a Nommo for “Best Novella” in 2019. In addition, she is a founding member of the SFF authors’ co-operative Skolion.

    While she will take on select non-fiction works, her primary focus remains on commercial fiction, with a preference for science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, erotica, and historical fiction. She is proudly LBGTI friendly, and will also take on short story collections, provided they are supplied in one document.

    Preferred genres: Speculative Fiction, Romance and Historical, LGBTI+ friendly. No religious, memoir or inspirational.

    Contact Nerine at: nerinedorman@gmail.com

  • Anoshi Saretzki

    Reader’s Reports
    Proofreading
    Developmental Editing
    Copy Editing
    Ebook Formatting
    Print Layout
    Illustration
    Manuscript Critique
    Writing Coach

    Anoshi Saretzki is a published YA fantasy novelist with 20 years’ experience shaping stories – from long- and short-form corporate brand narratives to full-length fiction. Combines professional editing expertise with hands-on publishing experience, offering authors practical guidance from first draft through publication and launch – including manuscript critique, writing coaching, developmental/structural editing, line editing, copy editing, proofreading, novel layout and publishing production and launch support.

    Preferred genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Contemporary Fantasy

    Contact Anoshi at: anoshi.saretzki@gmail.com
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