About CJ

Based in Adelaide, South Australia, I've been writing professionally in different forms for many years, with a focus on writing and editing since 2021. My career has always required effective communication, from "painting the picture" in the client's mind (when I was a travel agent) of them enjoying margaritas by the pool. To creating content that helps small businesses share their ideas, stories and expertise.

But my love of words started much earlier. I've been reading for as long as I can remember, including many a childhood night with the quilt pulled over the bed lamp so no one would know I was still awake. Decades later, not much has changed. Words and stories are my favourite things (along with cats, coffee and my daughter!).

Here's what I believe on these topics:

Websites

They’re not dead. Websites are one of the few ways you can control your own content and messaging.

Social Media

To stand out in an ever-increasing crowd, especially with competition now from robots, you benefit from a unique voice, but at very least, social media shows that you’re active and engaged.

Editing

If you’re serious about honing your work to be its best, you need an editor. A second pair of eyes and experience will catch more than spelling mistakes; they’ll spot opportunities to strengthen your message.

Newsletters

Uninterrupted communication with people who choose to hear from you. Where social media is great for recency and showing you’re alive, newsletters are much more direct and relevant to your readers.

Outside of work, I'm an avid reader, a regular at my local book club at Mockingbird Lounge, and a proud mum to an incredible daughter. Our home is shared with a few much-loved cats, our bookshelves hold what is, by now, probably a home deposit's worth of books, and you will more often than not hear show tunes belting out the windows. Oh and my daughter is way older than these photos suggest now.

Catherine James Creative acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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