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Catherine Thorsen

Summary

Catherine works with debut and novice authors who want to learn how to develop high-quality manuscripts for self-publication and querying. She is a full-time developmental editor and writing coach.

Biography

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

Catherine offers friendly and affordable developmental edits, manuscript assessments and coaching. She’s passionate about storytelling and uses a supportive editing style based on encouraging feedback and an open dialogue. She’ll work with you to make your manuscript the best it can be, with an engaging plot, unforgettable characters, and a powerful story.

Specialties
Thrillers · Suspense · Crime · Women’s Fiction · Romance · UpLit · Fantasy | Strong women protagonists · Cat-and-mouse-games · Stalkers · Cults · Unreliable narrators · Small-town and family dynamics · LGBTQIA+ · Witches · Ghosts · Magic · Epistolary Fiction/Mixed Media · Humour | Adult · Young Adult · Middle Grade

Catherine has 5 years’ experience as an editor and 17 years’ experience as a beta reader. She has a background in media and communication and additional experience in fitness and agriculture. She has lived in Norway, the UK and Victoria, and now calls Western Australia home.

In her spare time, 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 and their two cats.

Contact Catherine today at [email protected] for a free sample edit and a no-commitment chat about your manuscript, or check out www.cartaedits.com for more information.

Relevant qualifications

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

Editorial Freelancers Association 2018
Various courses in 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 a prestigious international book award.

Publications

Maiden of Belial - Becca Kabelis

Maiden of Belial - Becca Kabelis

Publisher: Clan Whelan

Publ. date: 2022

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Camera Shy - E.J. Russell

Camera Shy - E.J. Russell

Publisher: Reality Optional

Publ. date: 2022

Genre: Romance

Court of Venom - Kristin Burchell

Court of Venom - Kristin Burchell

Publisher: Ooligan

Publ. date: 2022

Genre: YA Fantasy

Foretold - Violet Lumani

Foretold - Violet Lumani

Publisher: Uproar

Publ. date: 2021

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Get in touch

Email [email protected]

Website http://www.cartaedits.com

Facebook http://fb.me/CartaEdits

Twitter http://twitter.com/CartaEdits

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