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Updated: 7 December 2024

I email my list every now and then with a summary of the news and advance notice of special offers. If you’d like to be one of the first in the know, click here.

NEW in time for Christmas: ScrivenerVirgin Gift Card

ScrivenerVirgin gifts cards are now available!

Click here to purchase an amount to suit (£10-£100 and multiples thereof). Gift cards can then be set against any of the products in my shop, including

the April/November writing retreats
one-on-one sessions with me, for mentoring and/or help with Scrivener
my RedPen editing courses
Zoom workshops, including Nine Online read/review group, RedPen Talking Shop and Wednesday Writers workshops

NEW: London Playwrights

I’ll be hosting a workshop for London Playwrights on Wednesday 11 December. Everyone welcome to come along and learn about how to use Scrivener for play writing. Book here.

Hope Cove Writers’ Retreats

3-6 April 2025 & 13-16 November 2025

Book now for 2025. Booking your accommodation ahead of time is essential.

Needing time away from everyday life, to make progress on a writing project?
Looking for good company, fellow writers, to help you to find your muse?
Excited by the prospect of a few days of unadulterated writing?

The Hope Cove Writers’ Retreat Weekend is designed for you!

Places limited to 12. Full details here.

RedPen Mentoring

If you are mid-project, or about to embark on something new, and are looking for an accountability buddy, a mentor, a friend who will pull you through the tricky bits – then RedPen Mentoring might be for you.

All RedPen Mentoring is provided by me, Anne Rainbow. Not sure if I’d be the right mentor for you?

Book a free 30-minute call.

How much does it cost? What do you get for your money?

For further details of what’s available, at what price, click here.

RedPen Editing

Keen to start editing? You are welcome to join the RedPen Editing Facebook group where I post an editing tip every day ….

And you can learn all about my RedPen Editing cycle in my book: Editing the RedPen Way: 10 steps to successful self-editing.

Click here for details.

And my courses are available in my Shop.

SIMPLY SCRIVENER SPECIALS

For one-on-one help, book a 30-minute Zoom session with me via the RedPen Shop.

The recording of your one-on-one meeting will be available only to you. This is managed through a FaceBook group for just the two of us. After our session, you are welcome to ask further questions through that FB group.

Further details of how to book and what’s provided are here.

Dates for your diary

RedPen WRITE-INS on Zoom

Each write-in last 60 minutes
Two 25-min writing sessions:
Hello + Declare intentions + Write + How’s it going + Write + Bye
Free to attend … write among friends.

Full programme of sessions here.

Artists on Air

Join the Rainbow On The Radio FB group for full details and the opportunity:

to share details of artist dates you are promoting and
to suggest questions I should put to my guest(s).

2024/25 Programme of guests

Patsy Collins

6 Jan Patsy Collins
3 Feb Robert Garnham
3 Mar TBA
31 Mar Jane Rayner

PLAYBACK links for 2024 shows

20 May Christine Cooke; 17 June Nigel Grist
15 July Vicky Hadland; 9 September Stephen Baird; 7 Oct Maggie Smith; 4 Nov Paul Dodgson
2 Dec Sir Denis Pereira Gray OBE

WEDNESDAY WRITERS ONLINE

Zoom workshops hosted by me, Anne Rainbow, and presented by novelist Dr Kerry Hadley-Pryce, lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at Wolverhampton University.

Dates for 2025

Spring: 15 Jan, 12 Feb, 12 March, 9 April
Summer: 7 May, 4 June, 2 July, 30 July
Autumn: 10 September, 8 October, 5 November, 3 December

10am-1pm UK time.

£35/class or £120 for a term of 4 Zoom workshops.

Full details here.

TALKING SHOP 22 January 2025: 3.30-6pm

Approximately every 3 months, a Zoom meeting hosted by me, an opportunity to discuss the pros/cons of self-publishing and to share experiences to date. Join the Facebook group here where we share information and support each other in our publishing journey.

THANK YOU ANNE!

If you’d like to thank me for any help I’ve given, you can always treat me to a virtual cup of coffee.

CURRENT BLOG SERIES started July 2024

Links: in case you missed them …

Article written by Jennifer Chen and published in Writer’s Digest.Anne Rainbow, interviewed about her use of Scrivener.

I have a short story called The Shell Necklace in this anthology. It’s based at Harlyn Bay, a place close to my heart in many ways.

Click here for the Kindle and paperback version via Amazon.

WORLD CLASS PERFORMER?

Read all about my short life lessons on the World Class Performer’s website.

In discussion with Jo Parfitt on 2 July

Using Scrivener for Memoir, Fiction and Non-Fiction: click here to see the recording.

In discussion with Jo Parfitt on 4 June

60 mins talking about Story Arcs and Themes in Fiction and Memoir – and answering questions. Hosted by Jo Parfitt.

To see the slides, click here. To watch the recording, click here.

In discussion with Jo Parfitt on 7 May

60 mins talking about editing – and Scrivener – and answering questions. Hosted by Jo Parfitt. Click here for the recording.

Scrivener 101

On 21 April, I spent an hour with Lisa Lepki (Director of Marketing at ProWritingAid) presenting my slides on how to get started in Scrivener, how to use Scrivener when editing/publishing, and answering questions.

Join the ProWritingAid Facebook group to view the recording.

Interviews on SoundArt radio

Christine Cooke and I visited Dartington to talk about Wednesday Writers with Dave Clarke (iamthehow.com) on SoundArt radio . You can listen to that interview here.

Autumn 2019, I was interviewed by Dave Clarke and we talked about writers’ retreats. You can listen to that interview here.