Dr Kate Cuthbert is the Editorial Director at Pantera Press. Previously, she held senior roles at Writers Victoria and launched the Escape Publishing imprint at Harlequin Australia. A genre fiction advocate and enthusiast, she is also a co-host on the popular podcast What Would Danbury Do?. 

GET TO KNOW THE PRESENTER:

All-time favourite book? - Slaughterhous

Current favourite book? - The Murderbot series

Favourite tropes? - friends-to-lovers, I don't have time/don't want/shouldn't be in a relationship right now, grumpy/sunshine

Favourite movies? - Jurassic Park, Notting Hill, Spy

Favourite TV shows? - The West Wing, Derry Girls, Reacher, Star Trek (all of them)

Random fact about Kate: My birthday is the exact middle day of the year

A great plot, exotic setting, fantastic ideas – they all mean nothing if your reader doesn’t feel their way through your story. Emotional resonance, or evoking emotion with your writing, is a crucial part of creating memorable narratives. When you get your readers to feel deeply, they become more invested in your story. 

Kate Cuthbert will teach tips, styles, and techniques to build emotional resonance into any story through writing fully developed characters to engage your readers, using different narrative techniques & POV to avoid exposition and distance, and building emotional tension and intensity into a manuscript.