Saturday Morning Coffee ☕ #39

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Happy Saturday, everyone! 👋

Hope you’ve had a most excellent week! Just a couple of things to highlight before we dive in today.

🎧 Firstly, the next of our live group calls (which I’m going to call Workshops from now on) will take place on Tuesday 15th November from 7-8pm, UK time.

We’ll have

Jenni Johnson

along as a guest to chat about podcasting for writers, so if that’s something you’d like to know more about, definitely consider becoming a paid subscriber before then.

You’ll get to attend the live session, ask questions, and watch the recording again anytime you like. It’s sure to be a fun session!

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📚 Secondly, my adult horror novel The Substitute will be available to buy from November 13th, and it’s getting a lot of positive early feedback, like this:

@erikawyble2LOVED this horror book. #creatorsearchinsights #booktok #bookreview #viral #horror @davidmcilroyauthor

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You’ll be able to pre-order it from next week, all being well. 🤞

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And as always, here’s the result of last week’s poll:

Thanks for voting! Don’t forget to read to the end for this week’s version. ⬇️

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A good video:

Here’s a little snippet from next week’s podcast episode with

Renee Puvvada

:

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don’t miss it!

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A good note:

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Thanks for being here this morning ☕

Here’s this week’s poll:

Feel free to share this post if you found it useful/interesting.

Have a brilliant Saturday! 😊

PS. You can read all previous editions of Saturday Morning Coffee here.

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