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Posted on 28 August 2020
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My guest today is oral storyteller and writer Liz Berg, a regular attendee at my RedPen Write-Ins. Liz Berg hails from Wales and now lives in the equally magical land of Cornwall, where she is mining the history of her Jewish heritage and Celtic links for inspiration. Her book Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland is being published by The History Press, is now available on preorder and due for release...

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Posted on 4 May 2020
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My guest today is Rachel Hobbs, author of the Stones of Power series of dark fantasy novels. Rachel is no newcomer to Scrivener, nor to this blog - she was my guest in 2016. Time has moved on and Rachel's first book of her series, Shadow Stained has just been published and is now available on Amazon. Welcome back, Rachel! How do you feel about Scrivener? Since discovering Scrivener, I’ve never looked back. I...

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Posted on 5 April 2019
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My guest today is Jane Rayner. I first met Jane at the Bridport Arts Centre - she was running a course on 'Developing an online presence'. I was so impressed with her knowledge of social media, but also how this impacts on authors, that I invited Jane to be a guest speaker for the Wednesday Writers in May 2018. Her workshop was so popular that Jane is returning as our guest...

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Posted on 8 February 2019
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My guest today is best-selling author, Toni Crowe. As a fellow student of the Self-Publishing School, Toni and I met through the SPS Facebook group, a melting pot of writers all keen to help each other along the publishing path. Toni has published six books to date and is a keen Scrivener user. Her latest is called Zero to Family Hero, an inspirational book, and it's now available on Amazon.co.uk and...

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Posted on 16 October 2018
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Today's guest is Wayne Kelly I've been privileged to appear on his Joined Up Writing Podcast, talking about Scrivener and NaNoWriMo. Now, it's my turn to welcome Wayne to my world. How did you come across Scrivener in the first place? Back in 2012, I successfully completed Nano and received a discount code to purchase Scrivener. It was the first time I’d even heard of the software and I was immediately attracted to screenshots...

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Posted on 18 May 2018
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My guest today is Lauren Lee Merewether A fellow student at the Self Publishing School and an avid participant in its sister school, Self-Publishing School - Fundamentals of Fiction. On 22 May, Lauren is launching her latest historical fiction book Salvation in the Sun, the first book in the series, The Lost Pharaoh Chronicles. It's on sale at Amazon US for $1.34 and at Amazon UK for 99p. However, it is free for two days:...

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Posted on 30 March 2018
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My guest today is Phil Hurst   Phil blogs at WriteWithPhil, a website dedicated to productivity and time management for writers. Phil has recently been converted to Scrivener, from Word. Welcome, Phil! When did you first start using Scrivener? I first tried Scrivener properly in 2017 when I decided to participate in NanoWriMo. I think that's a common starting place for most of us converts. When I signed up for the writing challenge I was seduced by one of the...

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Posted on 16 January 2018
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Todays' guest: Alinka Rutowska Alinka is with us today to celebrate the launch of her newest book: Supreme Leadership. And because it's free to download for two days starting today. Get your copy, quick! And because Scrivener 3 was released while Alinka was writing this latest book, so she had to make the decision: continue with Scrivener 2 (which she loved and knew how to use) or transition to Scrivener 3 and risk her...

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Posted on 20 October 2017
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Today's guest is Erin McIntyre, author of the Red King Trilogy. Erin's first novel, The Phantom of Faerie Mountain won 1st place in YA Fiction for the 2016 Purple Dragonfly awards and Silver placement for YA Mystery in the 2016 Readers’ Favourite awards. The Red King Trilogy comprises: The Phantom of Faerie Mountain The Secret of Berry Brae Circle The Talisman of Darktree Hollow How did you get into novel writing? Though, as a...

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