RedPen Mentoring
Challenge 2 – sample treatments

A – 2-line bio of 140 characters

Ideal for Twitter!
Anne offers #editing advice to short story writers and aspiring novelists thru RedPen Editing. Anne also writes a #blog on www.scrivenervirgin.com #writing.

B – Short bio (50 words)

To go at the end of any article
Version A – for article not on SV website
Anne Rainbow’s blog on www.scrivenervirgin.com is perfect for writers who are new to Scrivener and want to make best use of this sophisticated software for their writing projects, especially the annual NaNoWriMo event. Anne also offers, through her RedPen Editing group, editing advice to short story writers and aspiring novelists.

Version B for SV website
Anne Rainbow AKA rainbowmaker is a retired teacher, author and editor, with 60+ Maths/IT textbooks to her credit. In 2000, Anne started writing fiction: poetry, short stories, plays and novels.
Anne is an advocate of Scrivener software and mentors, through her online RedPen Editing group, short-story writers and aspiring novelists.

C – Medium bio (100 words)

Anne Rainbow is a retired teacher, author and editor, with 60+ Maths/IT textbooks to her credit, who has yet to relinquish her red pen. After years of non-fiction – her most recent book was published in May 2015 – Anne turned to writing poetry, short stories, plays and novels. Two of her plays have reached the stage, and she has three published collections of her poetry.
Anne blogs on www.scrivenervirgin.com for those new to Scrivener who want to make best use of this sophisticated software for their writing projects. Anne also mentors, thru her RedPen Editing group, short-story writers and aspiring novelists.

D – Long bio (400-600 words)

For your website ‘About Us’ you might include trivia about your likes e.g. popcorn … to help tell a story about you.

Anne Rainbow lives high up on the hill above the seaside town of Salcombe in Devon, with her artist husband Stephen Thomas, and while he is in his studio, Anne spends most of her time at her desk, writing. Often, they go travelling, Stephen with his paints and Anne with her laptop.

Anne’s career started in the IT industry in the late 1960s, as a computer programmer. She quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a systems analyst, and then a director of a software house with responsibility for marketing and finance, only leaving full-time work when she had her second child.

Faced with the prospect of being a stay-at-home mum, and needing an intellectual challenge, Anne started writing. Her first commissioned book was a revision text for A level Applied Maths; many more commissions followed. There were no computers then. Anne borrowed a typewriter from her Mum and compiled the manuscripts using real cut and paste techniques, with scissors and glue.

As soon as her elder child was in school, Anne, as a Maths graduate, took to the classroom and qualified as a teacher at secondary and sixth form level. It was not long before she was appointed as an examiner – for Mathematics O and A level – and then, once Computing appeared on the curriculum, her attention focused on the then new GNVQ qualification. Anne was appointed Chief Examiner for Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced GNVQ Computing and was subsequently commissioned to write many textbooks to support those examinations, and many others. She also found herself on several governmental panels, advising for example on how teachers should be taught and how IT might be introduced across the curriculum.

While still an active examiner, and continuing with her consultancy work for governmental agencies, Anne left full-time teaching and set up a publishing services company through which she edited books and journals for publishers such as Blackwell UK and US.

Now, many years later, Anne is, in theory, retired, with 60+ Maths/IT textbooks to her credit. Her most recent – and she says final! – text book is entitled Success! Passing the Professional Skills Tests for Teachers and was published in May 2015 under her pseudonym: Jenny Lawson.

In 2000, with both children having flown the nest, Anne turned her hand to fiction. She started writing poetry, short stories, plays and novels. Anne’s poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies and she also has three published collections of her poetry. Two of her plays have been performed the stage, the most recent one being in 2015 at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth.

As well as her own writing, despite being of retirement age, Anne has yet to relinquish her red pen. Anne mentors, through her RedPen Editing group, short-story writers and aspiring novelists.
Anne also blogs on www.scrivenervirgin.com for those new to Scrivener who want to make best use of this sophisticated software for their writing projects.

In her spare time (!), Anne is known to do voluntary work for local organisations: she is on a number of committees and runs a book group and a creative writing group. Anne also likes to sing, to cook and to spend precious time with her family.

Speaker intro (250-300 words)

Suitable for someone who has to introduce you to their event. Never let anyone else introduce you with their words – worst mistake ever! Instead, provide it for them.

Our speaker today is Anne Rainbow, a lady of many talents!
Anne is going to talk to us about how to polish a story until it shines. She promises to show us some of the mistakes writers make, the ones that may result in their stories landing in the reject pile. By the end of today’s session, we should be better able to prepare our manuscripts for submission, and look forward to being published – our primary goal as writers.

Anne’s career started in the IT industry in the late 1960s, as a computer programmer. She rose through the ranks becoming a systems analyst, only leaving when she started a family.

A stay at home mum for a year, Anne started writing – and her first commissioned book was on A level Applied Maths. She then went into teaching, and examining and then writing textbooks for those exams.

Now, many years later, Anne is, in theory, a retired teacher, examiner, author and editor, with 60+ Maths/IT textbooks to her credit. Her most recent – and she says final! – text book is entitled Success! Passing the Professional Skills Tests for Teachers and was published in May 2015 under her pseudonym: Jenny Lawson.

In 2000, Anne turned her hand to fiction and she started writing poetry, short stories, plays and novels. Two of her plays have reached the stage, and she has three published collections of her poetry.

And, despite being of retirement age, Anne has yet to relinquish her red pen.

Anne blogs on www.scrivenervirgin.com for those new to Scrivener who want to make best use of this sophisticated software for their writing projects. Anne also mentors, thru her RedPen Editing group, short-story writers and aspiring novelists.