Episodes
Holly Seddon has written several thrillers, and says that she "writes novels under cover of darkness." Show notes: Holly Seddon The Short Straw 59 Minutes (release August 2025 in the UK, and November 2025 in the US) Julie McDowall: Attack Warning Red! Gillian MacAllister, Just Another Missing Person Honest Authors Podcast Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast...
Published 11/06/24
Published 11/06/24
Veronica Roth is the author of many fantasy novels, including the Divergent series. Show notes: Veronica Roth When Among Crows Veronica Roth's three favorite Scrivener features BBC interview with Ken Follett Why You Should Print Your Manuscript and Edit It on Paper The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennet Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating...
Published 10/02/24
William Shaw writes crime fiction and adventure thrillers. Show notes: William Shaw The Wild Swimmers Aphantasia The Conspirators Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Writers just want to be left alone Elly Griffiths: The Locked Room Martin Green: Seven Types of Adventure Tale: An Etiology of a Major Genre The Interpreter Adam Higginbotham: Challenger Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please...
Published 09/04/24
Natasha Bell writes psychological thrillers and teaches creative writing. Show notes: Natasha Bell His Perfect Wife How author Ken Follett sold nearly 200 million books (video showing how he writes) Faber Academy: Finish Your Draft Catherine Lacey: Biography of X Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And...
Published 08/07/24
Show notes: Wendy van Camp The Planets SFWA - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association The Curate’s Brother: A Jane Austen Variation of Persuasion NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Stuart Horwitz: Blueprint Your Bestseller Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of...
Published 07/03/24
Kate Heartfield writes historical fantasy novels, games, and stories. Show notes: Kate Heartfield The Embroidered Book The Valkyrie John Gardner, Grendel Aeon Timeline Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with Scrivener.
Published 06/05/24
Veronica G. Henry writes fantasy, mystery, and speculative fiction novels. Show notes: Veronica G. Henry The Canopy Keepers Shinrin-yoku - forest bathing How to Store Handwritten Notes and Texts in Scrivener Projects 47North Tracy Clark: Hide Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past...
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. Show notes: 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. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the...
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. Show notes: George Stevens Jr. My Place in the Sun George Stevens A Place in the Sun Oppenheimer Lawrence of Arabia Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes...
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. Show notes: Fonda Lee The Green Bone Saga Untethered Sky Robert Jackson Bennett: The Tainted Cup Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with...
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. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple...
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. Show notes: John Wyver Illuminations Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History Ed Conway, Material World Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and...
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. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your...
Published 10/04/23
Sean Carroll is a quantum physicist, who has written several books explaining the complexity of his topic to general readers. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the...
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. Show notes: Michael Jecks Michael Jecks's books Medieval Murderers Michael's Morris Dancing George MacDonald Fraser: Quartered Safe Out Here Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or...
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." Show notes: Sheila O'Flanagan What Eden Did Next Bridget Walsh, The Tumbling Girl Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook...
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. Show notes: S J Watson Before I Go to Sleep Faber Academy The Experiment Learn more...
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. Show notes: Jaime Green The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow...
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. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or...
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. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like...
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. Show notes: 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 Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podcasts or your...
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. Show notes: Allison K. Williams Seven Drafts Writer Beware Scrivener Blog Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done Lisa Solomon, A Field Guide to Color Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in...
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." Show notes: Katelyn Monroe Howes The Awoken 1/27 Pictures The Peripheral Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple...
Published 12/07/22