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
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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