Shows
The Clean Library PodcastE47 Author Cathryn DevriesJoin us as we get to know author Cathryn Devries. You can find her work at:https://eclectaperennial.com/#bookpodcast #cleanbooks #cleanreads2025-05-2751 min
Your Next DraftHow Multiple Layers of Editing Combine to Perfect Your Story (with Cathryn deVries and Kim Kessler)The best novels combine rock-solid story structure with scenes that are unputdownable on every page. Here’s how one writer and two editors polished a story at every level.If you want to move your reader in every moment, keep them hooked on every page, you need to refine your scenes until each one is unputdownable.And that refinement? It’s SUCH a joy. It’s my favorite thing to do and it will transform your entire story.But in order to make every scene matter, you first need to make sure you have a...2025-02-181h 32Your Next DraftScene Workshop: Hook Your Readers in Chapter One with Cathryn deVriesYou get one shot to grab their attention. Don’t waste it with characters staring off into space.You've put all this work into uncovering your character's internal arc. You know them SO WELL.When you step into a scene, you're giving your absolute all to uncovering the deep meaning and purpose behind it, the profound arc of character transformation that's happening in even the smallest moments.Yet in doing all that . . . you've lost the plot. You've crafted complex inner worlds for your characters, but all they're literally doing is staring off into sp...2025-01-211h 38
Finding Fantasy ReadsLightning Hunter by Cathryn deVries [Fantasy Short Story]In this episode you'll hear a short story from Cathryn deVries about a gnome struggling to find her place after a big adventure. Lightning Hunter is narrated by Karyne Norton.
Important Links:
The Author: Cathryn deVries website, where you can get Lightning Hunter and When a Slave Falls for free
The Narrator: Karyne Norton's website
Sign up for the Finding Fantasy Reads podcast weekly updates, with new episodes, deals on audiobooks, and more2025-01-0735 min
Dear WriterEpisode 160: Author Spotlight - Cathryn deVriesCathryn DeVries is an author based in the Gold Coast, Australia. Collaboratively with her daughter, Cathryn writes epic romantic fantasy. While she and her daughter have yet to embark on their publishing journey, Cathryn is looking forward to this challenge in the near future, and has recently had success with winning the Stuart and Shadow Short Story Prize. Outside of her writing life, Cathryn studied aeronautical engineering and worked in the air force for several years. Now, she is a homeschooling mum to her four children and works a side business of alpha reading, to provide other writers with concrete...2024-07-1640 min