Summary

Catherine is a supportive and encouraging developmental editor and writing coach who offers friendly, affordable edits tailored to your unique voice and vision. She's particularly passionate about working with debut and novice authors who want to learn how to develop high-quality manuscripts for self-publication and querying.

She has a background in journalism, fitness and agriculture across Norway, the UK and Australia. Her collaborative editing style provides constructive, actionable feedback that will help you produce and polish a rich story with compelling characters that resonates with your audience.

Biography

Let's give your manuscript the love and attention it deserves!

Catherine welcomes authors at all stages of their journey. She offers full developmental edits to help you build a strong final draft, manuscript assessments that focus on big-picture story elements, and several supplementary coaching options. There is a product for every step of the process, so you can revise with confidence and clarity, no matter where you are on your path to publication. She aims to fit most budgets.

While happy to work with most genres and target audiences, Catherine’s editing is especially well suited to: Thrillers · Suspense · Crime · Women’s Fiction · Romance · Fantasy | Strong women protagonists · Cat-and-mouse-games · Stalkers · Cults · Unreliable narrators · Small-town vibes · Complicated family dynamics · Sapphic and LGBTQIA+ · Witches · Ghosts · Magic · | Adult · Young Adult · Middle Grade

Catherine has 6 years’ experience as an editor and 18 years’ experience as a beta reader, including work as a judge at a prestigious international literary awards program and a beta reader at a leading Australian writers’ centre. Her clients have gone on to secure agents, land traditional publishing deals, and launch successful self-publishing careers.

When she’s not editing, Catherine likes to read, hike, solve puzzles and kill plants in increasingly creative ways because the internet told her to. She lives in Busselton with her partner, their two cats, two possums, numerous wagtails and at least three skinks.

Get in touch today at [email protected] for a free sample edit and a no-pressure chat about your manuscript, or visit www.cartaedits.com to learn more.

Relevant qualifications

University of Virginia Online 2024
Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction

Australian Writers' Centre 2022
Anatomy of a Crime: How to write about Murder.

Editorial Freelancers Association 2018
Developmental Editing of Fiction, specialising in thriller/mystery/suspense and romance.

Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading 2018
Introduction to Fiction Editing.

College of Further Education Norway 2001 - 2004
Media and Communications. Focus: scriptwriting and journalism.

Recent experience

Catherine is a beta reader at a leading Australian writers centre, and a judge at two prestigious book awards.

Publications

Get in touch

Email [email protected]

Website http://www.cartaedits.com

Facebook http://fb.me/CartaEdits