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Your Next Draft6 Reasons to Love Editing (From People Who Actually Do)What if editing isn’t drudgery, but the most delightful part of your writing process?So you’re revising yet another draft. You’re hoping against hope that this draft will be your final draft. Which, coincidentally, is also what you hoped for the last draft, and the one before that.Editing is a slog you’re trudging through. You dream of the day when you can escape this drudgery and return to the free-flowing fun of writing the first draft of your next book.But what if editing isn’t an obstacle you have t...
2026-01-1329 min
The HYBRID AuthorScience Fantasy, Kickstarter and 'Son of Osivirius': Bringing Big Stories to Life with Cathryn deVriesCathryn deVries is an award-winning fantasy and sci-fi author who explores themes of restorative justice, empowerment, connection with earth and spirit and finding the true self in her work—all wrapped up in an epic package of immersive world-building and sweet romance. A former Air Force engineer and recovering perfectionist, she now home-schools her children, two of whom are on the autism spectrum. She and her family live in the Gold Coast Hinterland of Australia, where she enjoys living in a rainforest and pretending she’s an elf.
In episode 179 of The HYBRID Author Podcast host Joanne Zara...
2025-06-2133 min
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 #cleanreads
2025-05-2751 minYour 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
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2025-01-0735 min
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 more
Enjoying the podcast? Consider donating toward podcast expenses or joining our volunteer staff to help us ma...
2025-01-0735 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