Peabody Ink is run by Dr. Kat Hall. Kat offers services to writers, academics, journals, publishers, TV production companies, and cultural bodies in and beyond the UK –

• Translation (GER-ENG) – crime fiction, literature, culture, publishing, academia
• Editing, copy-editing, proofreading
• Consultancy – reader reviews, TV/film evaluations

Kat’s areas of expertise and experience –

• 25 years of editing and copy-editing academic and cultural texts
• translator (member of the Translators Association)
• manuscript editor for the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
• translating and editing crime fiction (also editor of Crime Fiction in German)
• Honorary Research Associate in Modern Languages, Swansea University

Kat has worked with and advised – 

• BBC Radio Four
• BBC Wales
• BBC World Service
• Brown University
• CrimeFest
• De Gruyter Verlag
• Euston Films
• Fischer Verlag
• Frankfurt Book Fair
• Goethe-Institut London
• Index on Censorship
• Kiepenheuer & Witsch
• Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
• Marcel Hartges Literatur- und Filmagentur
• Mystery Tribune
• Newcastle Noir
• New Books in German
• Orenda Books
• Peter Lang Publishing
• Piper Verlag
• Swansea University
• University of Wales Press
• Working Title TV

Recent projects – 

• translations of literary samples for various German publishers
• translations of pieces by Esther Dischereit, Nino Haratischwili, Terézia Mora, Ferdinand von Schirach, Saša Stanišić
• translations for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s Frankfurt Magazine
• comparative edit of German thriller in English translation for KiWi Verlag
• translations of chapters for Kniesche (ed.), Contemporary German Crime Fiction
• translations of Frankfurt Book Fair press releases
• translations of German publisher catalogues for London Book Fair
• editing work for academic journals
• reader reports for publishers and New Books in German

Please get in touch via the contact page for further information and rates.