London Writers' Salon

By Parul Bavishi, Matthew Trinetti

A deep dive into the habits, mindsets, tools, craft secrets and creative practices bestselling writers use to write novels, plays, poetry, and articles. Hosted by the co-founders of the London Writers... more

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January 07, 2025#126: John Muirs Laws — The Nature Journaling Framework To Unlock Boundless Creativity, Curiosity as a Superpower, and How to Deepen Your Writing
Naturalist, artist, and educator John Muir Laws on how writers can awaken curiosity, deepen their connection to nature, and unlock boundless creativity through the transformative practice of nature journaling.
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ABOUT JOHN MUIRS LAWS
John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. He is the author and illustrator of several books including The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (also available in Spanish), The Laws Sketchbook, The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide, Sierra Wildflowers: A Hiker’s Guide, and The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada.
RESOURCES & LINKS
📄 Interview Transcript (unedited)
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
Intro to Nature Journaling
Wild Wonder Foundation
Free video tutorials on drawing and nature
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling
How To Teach Nature Journaling
Wonderland
The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Wild Wonder Foundation
John Muir Laws - Website
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December 28, 2024#125: Vicky Reynal — Financial Therapy for Creatives, Balancing Art & Income, Financial Resilience, Writing Non-Fiction
Financial therapist and writer Vicky Reynal on how creatives can better understand our belief systems around money and what tools we can turn to when making hard decisions around money.
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ABOUT VICKY REYNAL
Vicky Reynal is a psychotherapist, and runs her own clinic in London specialising in financial therapy. She has a weekly column in the Daily Mail answering reader’s money dilemmas. Her book "Money on Your Mind: the Psychology behind your Financial Habits" won the MAIA Best Book Award in 2024.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄 Interview Transcript (unedited)
Money on Your Mind by Vicky Reynal
Staring at the Sun by Irvin D. Yalom
The Art of Travel by Alain Du Botton
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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56min
December 24, 2024#124: Beth Kempton — Writing Non-Fiction, Turn Life’s Challenges into Creative Fuel, Unlocking Your Intelligent Heart, Fearless Creativity, Navigating Grief
Bestselling nonfiction author Beth Kempton shares how writers can navigate life’s transition,s embrace impermanence, and unlock fearless creativity by drawing on Japanese philosophy and the profound power of writing.
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ABOUT BETH KEMPTON
Beth Kempton’s bestselling titles include Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life and Kokoro: Wisdom for a Life Well Lived, https://bethkempton.com/calmchristmas, We Are in This Together and Freedom Seeker. Beth’s books have been translated into 24 languages. Follow Beth on instagram.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄 Interview Transcript (unedited)
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Kokoro: Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
Beth’s Website
Dewa Sanzan Mountains
Departures Movie
Beth’s deep journaling prompts
Allyson Kent Substack
The 100 Year Life by Lynda Gratton and Andew Scott
Reality Is Not What It Seems
by Carlo Rovelli
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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54min
December 16, 2024#123: Anna Bogutskaya — Writing Horror, Role of the Monster, Breaking Creative Boundaries, Writing Nonfiction
Anna Bogutskaya has studied thousands of horror films and books. In this interview we talk to Anna about the role of the monster and how writers can harness primal emotions to tell captivating stories. We also dive into her process for pitching and writing nonfiction books.
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ABOUT ANNA BOGUTSKAYA
Anna Bogutskaya is a freelance critic, author, film programmer and creative producer. She writes for BBC Culture, Guardian, MUBI, the Face and TimeOut, amongst others, and programmes films for BFI, Edinburgh Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. She produces and hosts The Final Girls podcast. She’s the author of Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate and Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold On Us.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
Unlikeable Female Characters
Feeding the Monster
The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast
The Babadook
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Admit One
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse
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For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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1h 4min
December 05, 2024#122: David Perell — Find Your Voice, Make Your Writing Memorable & Build a Personal Monopoly plus The Write of Passage Story
Writer, Entrepreneur & Podcaster David Perell on simple frameworks you can use to bring your voice to life and write in a way that makes your writing memorable and has your readers calling you “one-of-a-kind."
Links & Resources
Write of Passage
David Perell
How I Write Podcast
ABOUT DAVID PERELL
David Perell has taught 2,000 people to write in his Write of Passage program. After being the King of Typos and boring sentences in his 5th grade English class, he became freakishly obsessed with the craft of writing, and today, he has 435,000 Twitter followers and a group of people who… gasp, adore his writing. More recently, he started a podcast called How I Write where he’s interviewed people like Tim Ferriss, Morgan Housel, and Amor Towles.
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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November 20, 2024#121: Kate Mosse — From Aspiring Writer to Literary Game-Changer, Launching The Women's Prize For Fiction, Writing Historical Fiction, Finding Success After Rejection
Literary Legend Kate Mosse on writing 11 + novels, finding her voice with her fifth novel, researching historical fiction, pushing past doubt, dealing with rejection and how she launched the Women's Prize For Fiction.
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ABOUT KATE MOSSE
Kate Mosse is the author of eleven novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles. Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction & the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction - the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world - and is the Founder of the global campaign #WomanInHistory launched in January 2021 to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements throughout history. She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List 2024 for services to literature, women and charity.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄Interview Transcript (unedited)
https://www.katemosse.co.uk/
Map of Bones
The Ghost Ship
Women's Prize for Fiction
The Discoveries Program
Weekly Writers’ Hour Contest
Trailer for Kate’s upcoming one-woman show!
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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1h 1min
November 04, 2024#120: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky — Wellness For Writers, How to Matter, Writing Non-Fiction, Building Communities, Why You Should Stay Away From Narcissists
Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky has dedicated his life to studying happiness. In this episide we talk to him about ‘mattering’ and how we can use his research findings to write more, worry less about our status and embrace a lightness in our creative work.
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ABOUT DR. ISAAC
Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky holds the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami. He has published 12 books and over 140 articles and chapters on wellness and creativity. His most recent book is How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society, co-authored with his wife, Dr. Ora Prilleltensky.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄Interview Transcript (unedited)
https://www.professorisaac.com/
How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society
Psychology and the status quo.
How People Thrive
The Routledge International Handbook of Human Significance and Mattering
Arie W. Kruglanski
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
Matt’s thoughts on Creative Health
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58min
October 18, 2024#119: Penny Wincer — Home Design For Writers, How To Transform Any Space Into A Space to Write, Writing Non-Fiction Proposals, Balancing Creativity with Life’s Demands
Penny Wincer, an author, writer and non-fiction book coach on how writers can think deeply about their living spaces, what makes a house a home and we dive into her expertise around creating engaging non-fiction and creating a non-fiction book proposal to send to agents.
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ABOUT PENNY WINCER
Penny Wincer is an author, freelance writer and non-fiction book coach based in London. She is the author of Home Matters: How our homes shape us, and we shape them and Tender:The imperfect Art of Caring. Penny hosts the podcast Not Too Busy To Write.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄Interview Transcript (unedited)
Penny’s website
Home Matters: How our homes shape us, and we shape them
Tender:The imperfect Art of Caring
Penny’s Substack Not Too Busy to Write
Penny’s podcast Not Too Busy To Write
The Little Book of Colour by Karen Haller
Book Proposal Group
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
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1h 4min
September 29, 2024#118: Sam Copeland — How to Catch The Eye Of A Literary Agent, Compelling Pitch Letters & Writing Funny Children’s Fiction
Literary Agent (RCW Agency) and children’s author Sam Copeland on what he’s looking for in his submissions pile, how to write a compelling pitch letter, what he thinks about submitting to agents internationally and how he constructs funny middle-grade fiction.
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ABOUT SAM COPELAND
Sam Copeland was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the 2020 and 2021 British Book Awards and selected for the Bookseller's Most Influential People in Publishing in 2020. He welcomes e-mail submissions and can be contacted on [email protected]. His associate is [email protected]. He is also a children’s author. The Waterstones Children's Book of the Year shortlisted his Charlie Changes series.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄 Interview Transcript (unedited)
Sam Copeland
RCW Literary Agency
Piranesi by Sussana Clarke
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Jenny Pearson
Submit your ms to Sam: [email protected].
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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53min
September 23, 2024#117: Kate Young — Writing Cookbooks, Viral Blogs, Plotting Romcoms and Writing Sex Scenes
Award-winning cookbook writer, blogger and novelist Kate Young on creating a viral cooking blog, how she turned her blog into a series of cookbooks, and what goes into a pitch for a cookbook.
Plus her approach to plotting rom com, adding depth to rom-com characters, her approach to writing sex scenes and what she thinks every rom com should have.
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ABOUT KATE YOUNG
Kate Young is a writer and cook, whose award-winning Little Library Cookbooks feature food inspired by beloved works of literature. After a sunny Australian childhood (spent indoors reading books) she moved to London, which suited her much better. She now lives in a converted mill in a Gloucestershire town. Experienced is her first novel.
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RESOURCES & LINKS
📄 Interview Transcript (unedited)
Experienced
The Little Library Cookbook
Kate’s Food Books
Kate’s Substack: The Organised Lesbian
For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.
For free writing sessions, join free Writers’ Hours: writershour.com.
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59min

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