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Veronica G. Henry writes fantasy, mystery, and speculative fiction novels.
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Veronica G. Henry
The Canopy Keepers
Shinrin-yoku - forest bathing
How to Store Handwritten Notes and Texts in Scrivener Projects
47North
Tracy Clark: Hide
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Published 05/01/24
After many years writing short stories and essays, Debbie Urbanski has published her first novel, After World, about AI at the end of humanity's physical presence on earth.
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Debbie Urbanski
After World
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
M.R. Caray, The Girl With All the Gifts
Marlen Haushofer, The Wall
How Daydreaming Can Enhance Creativity for Fiction Writers
"The first Scrivener file containing 4 years of work on my novel"
Use Dialogue Focus and Linguistic Focus to Revise...
Published 04/03/24
Todd Henry writes books helping people improve their productivity, creativity, and teamwork. He calls himself "an arms dealer for the creative revolution."
I can't imagine writing a book in anything other than Scrivener.
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Todd Henry
The Accidental Creative
The Thing You Do Every Day
Alone with Your Thoughts
Distraction-Free Writing with Scrivener
Steve Martin: Born Standing Up
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Published 03/06/24
George Stevens Jr. has been a movie producer and director for decades, and has written a memoir about his life in Hollywood.
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George Stevens Jr.
My Place in the Sun
George Stevens
A Place in the Sun
Oppenheimer
Lawrence of Arabia
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Published 02/07/24
Fonda Lee is a science fiction and fantasy author, winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and many others.
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Fonda Lee
The Green Bone Saga
Untethered Sky
Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup
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Published 01/03/24
Carl Zimmer is a science writer, author of 14 books, is a professor adjunct at Yale University, and writes the Origins column for The New York Times.
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Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer's Origins column for the New York Times
To Beginning Writers
Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive
Bookends
Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Published 12/06/23
John Wyver writes about the history of television in the United Kingdom, produces films about the arts and performance, and is a Professor of the Arts on Screen.
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John Wyver
Illuminations
Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History
Ed Conway, Material World
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Published 11/01/23
Mary Robinette Kowal writes science fiction and fantasy, and starts writing all her novels during NaNoWriMo, which takes place each year in November.
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Mary Robinette Kowal
The Spare Man
Episode 19, Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo
Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World
Jessi Honard and Marie Parks, Unrelenting
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Published 10/04/23
Sean Carroll is a quantum physicist, who has written several books explaining the complexity of his topic to general readers.
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Sean Carroll
Mindscape Podcast
Hijack
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Vol. 1: Space, Time, and Motion
Katie Mack: The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Sarafina Nance: Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics & Finding Light in the Dark
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Published 09/06/23
Michael Jecks has written more than 50 novels, including 33 in his Templar series of medieval mysteries. He also writes books in other series, set in modern times, the Tudor period, and 1920s Shanghai.
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Michael Jecks
Michael Jecks's books
Medieval Murderers
Michael's Morris Dancing
George MacDonald Fraser: Quartered Safe Out Here
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Published 08/02/23
Sheila O'Flanagan left a career as a banker for writing, and has written more than 30 romance novels, which "put women in situations where they have to dig deep inside themselves to find their inner strength even though sometimes they struggle to realise it’s there."
"You always regret the things you didn't do more than the things that you did do."
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Sheila O'Flanagan
What Eden Did Next
Bridget Walsh, The Tumbling Girl
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Published 07/05/23
S J Watson, author of the hugely popular Before I Go to Sleep, is starting a new project called The Experiment, where he shows readers his first drafts.
S J Watson, author of the hugely popular Before I Go to Sleep, is starting a new project called The Experiment. He will write a novel, showing readers his first drafts as he progresses, and inviting readers to suggest how the novel is to proceed.
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S J Watson
Before I Go to Sleep
Faber Academy
The Experiment
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Published 06/07/23
Jaime Green has just published her first book, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos, where she discusses whether there is life out there, and, if so, whether we will ever know.
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Jaime Green
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life
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Published 05/03/23
Becca Caddy writes about science and technology, and is a self-avowed tech addict. Her book Screen Time tells us how to make peace with our tech devices and not be overwhelmed by them.
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Becca Caddy
Screen Time
Composition Mode and other focus features in Scrivener
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Published 04/05/23
Joanna Penn combines her talents as a thriller author with her skills in marketing to have a successful writing career. Her latest book is Pilgrimage: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways.
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Joanna Penn
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage Kickstarter
The Way
Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Check Grammar in Your Scrivener Projects with ProWritingAid
Scapple
Renee Rose: Write to Riches
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Published 03/01/23
After decades as a corporate executive for a financial services firm, Bill Thompson retired and became a bestselling author of archeological thrillers.
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Bill Thompson
My Second Act: Bestselling Novelist
Bill Thompson's books
Kindle ebook royalties
Kindle Unlimited royalties
Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans
Daniel Silva books
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Published 02/01/23
Allison K. Williams is a writer, editor, and coach, as well as former circus performer, and is the author of Seven Drafts, a book about self-editing. Seven Drafts helps writers get from the messy first draft to final draft.
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Allison K. Williams
Seven Drafts
Writer Beware
Scrivener Blog
Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done
Lisa Solomon, A Field Guide to Color
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Published 01/04/23
Katelyn Monroe Howes is a documentary filmmaker, who has just written her first novel, The Awoken, a dystopian science fiction thriller, has just been published.
"I honestly don't think my process could have worked unless I had Scrivener."
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Katelyn Monroe Howes
The Awoken
1/27 Pictures
The Peripheral
Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
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Published 12/07/22
Brigitta Blair is an author/illustrator, and Camilla Zhang is a comics editor. Together they have created the Standard Comic Strip Template for Scrivener.
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Brigitta Blair is an author/illustrator, and Camilla Zhang is a comics editor. Together they have created the Standard Comic Strip Template for Scrivener. We discussed comics, how they are made, and how the Scrivener template helps comic authors.
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Brigitta Blair
Camilla Zhang
Steenz
Standard Comic Script...
Published 11/02/22
Grant Faulkner is executive director of National Novel Writing Month, where hundreds of thousands of people write novels during the month of November. He tells us about the amazing event that is NaNoWriMo, and how it brings together people around the world to write together.
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Grant Faulkner
NaNoWriMo
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Published 10/19/22
Rashelle Isip is a professional organizer, helping people better manage their time, space, and belongings. She explains how writers can better manage their time and be more efficient.
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Rashelle Isip
Rashelle Isip's books
How to Stay Focused on Your Work
Got the Blank Page Blues? Take a Walk. How Walking Boosts Creativity.
Adam Grant, Think Again
John Zada, In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond
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Published 10/05/22
Christie Aschwanden is a journalist, author, and editor, and has written Good to Go: What the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery, a book about the science of athletic recovery. She is a runner and cyclist, and has contributed articles to The New York Times, Runner's World, and Bicycling, among others.
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Christie Aschwanden
Good to Go: What the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery
Emerging Form, Christie's...
Published 09/07/22
William Gallagher is a versatile writer. He has written Doctor Who radio dramas, novels, and hundreds of articles about technology, as well as books about writing. He also creates many YouTube videos about writing and technology.
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William Gallagher
58keys, William Gallagher's YouTube channel
Three-Biscuit Guide to Scrivener (one-hour video looking at Scrivener's features)
Jane Austen, Lady Susan
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Published 08/03/22
Rowan Hooper is a science writer, and is currently podcast editor for The New Scientist. His book, How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars, looks at ten big problems in the world and how they can be solved for a trillion dollars.
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Rowan Hooper
How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
Emily St. John Mandel, The Sea of Tranquility
George Monbiot, Regenesis
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Published 07/06/22