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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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.
Show notes:
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.
Show notes:
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.
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
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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.
Show notes:
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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
Show notes:
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."
Show notes:
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.
Show notes:
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.
Show notes:
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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
Show notes:
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."
Show notes:
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