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Testimonials & Featured Clients

I’ve worked with Cathy for years now, and I’m always impressed by her thoughtfulness, kindness, wisdom and ability to help me sort out my own thoughts as I work through a draft. I’ve recommended her to friend after friend mired in their own drafts because her unique perspective and feedback is so helpful.

Sabaa Tahir, NYT bestselling author of the Ember in the Ashes series


Cathy Yardley is a wonderful human as well as brilliant sounding board for characters, plot and themes. She has such an incisive mind — talking through stories with her always helps to crystalize whatever it is I’m trying to do with the project before me. I highly recommend her to everyone who approaches me looking to grow as a writer.

Abigail Hing Wen, NYT bestselling author of the Loveboat, Taipei series

I can’t start a book without talking to Cathy Yardley. Seriously. When I have a story idea, something I want to explore and pitch, she’s my first port of call. We talk characters’ needs and goals. We talk story arc. We talk conflict. We talk point of view and whose story it should be. Through incisive questions and mad brainstorming – and within one hour! – she takes my chaos of ideas and themes and helps me hone it into a cohesive whole. Then I am ready to write. She is truly madly amazing.

Kim Taylor Blakemore, bestselling author of After Alice Fell, The Companion, and The Deception

Sometimes I write About Writing

How to Make Your Writing Memorable

Being successful in the writing world is about standing out in a ridiculously crowded field (like, in-the-millions ridiculous.)  It’s about getting people to find you, but also getting them hooked on your style of writing, on your novels, enough that they decide they...

Say No to the Multitasking Mistake

We live in a world that is full of the drive to do more, more, more.  As writers, we suffer from this expectation maybe more than a lot of other people. We are expected to write more, blog more, market more, be visible on social media more.  It is all Important, with...

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