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Updated: 27 June 2025

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.

RedPen Path Forum

The RedPen Path forum is now open …

I’ve created space on my website to replace my activity on FaceBook. I now enjoy a feed with no adverts, no nonsense …

Join me? There’s a space called RedPen Square where writers can

  • meet in the RedPen Cafe and enjoy a virtual cup of coffee
  • read and review each other’s writing
  • find feedback partners
  • discuss their writing / publishing journey in the Talking Shop
  • have a laugh …

Further down the forum, there’s space to promote your own newsletters, events, book launches and publications.

There’s a Library, and Tools for Writers … lots of writing craft resources … private spaces for attendees of events, and links to other parts of my website.

Please come along, join whichever spaces appeal to you, post news about yourself and your writing journey. Join in …

Hope Cove Writers’ Retreats

13-16 Nov 2025 & 5-8 March 2026

Book now! 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 for writers limited to 12. Non-writers accompanying a writer are also welcome; places limited to 4.

Full details here.

RedPen Mentoring

Mid-project?

About to embark on something new?

Wherever you are on your publishing journey, it helps to have an accountability buddy, a mentor, a friend who will pull you through the tricky bits. And that might be me …

RedPen Mentoring might be perfect for you. For details of what’s available, at what price, click here.

Not sure if I’d be the right mentor for you? Book a free 30-minute call.

RedPen Editing

Keen to start editing?

But don’t know where to start?

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.

Pruning; Punctuation; Word Choices; Dialogue; Balance; People, Places and Props

And join the RedPen Path forum …

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 private space on my forum for just the two of us.

After our session, you are welcome to ask further questions – no additional charge.

Further details of how to book a Simply Scrivener Special session 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 space on my RedPen Path forum for full details, to share details of artist dates you are promoting and to suggest questions I should put to my guest(s).

Andy Williamson

2025 Programme of guests

PLAYBACK links

2025:  6 Jan Patsy Collins; 3 Feb Robert Garnham; 3 Mar Brenda Loosemore;
31 Mar Jane Rayner;  28 April Maggie Duffy; 23 June Jason Mann

2024: 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

Kerry Hadley-Pryce

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

10am-1pm BST. £35/class or £120 for a term of 4 workshops. Full details here.

Remaining Dates for 2025:

Autumn term: 10 Sept, 8 Oct, 5 Nov, 3 Dec

Jason H Mann

TALKING SHOP

1 October 2025: 6-8.30pm BST

Zoom meetings hosted by me, an opportunity to discuss the pros/cons of self-publishing and to share experiences to date.

Our guest in October will be JH Mann, award winning author of Hidden Depths and The Echoing Shore, both set in Cornwall. His third novel is due out soon. Jason will share with us the decisions he made about publishing and marketing: setting up his own imprint DARK SPIDER BOOKS and using social media (TikTok) to secure thousands of sales.

Join the Forum space here where we share information and support each other in our publishing journey.

NEW: 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