I'm very excited to announce the launch of the paperback of our latest book, Scrivener Superpowers, by M. G. Herron!
Here's where you can get your copy of the book:
Like most writers, you’d like to write more and write better. You might have even tried Scrivener, the top word processor for writers (and our favorite book writing software), hoping it would help you with your writing goals.
When I talk about Scrivener, though, I usually hear things like, “Oh I tried that and gave up. Too complicated!” Scrivener is notoriously overwhelming to learn, and while it might indeed upgrade your writing skills, who has the time to wade through hours of technical manuals figuring it all out?
However, we've already heard from dozens of readers who have told us they not only had a great time reading the book, they not only feel prepared to write their books with Scrivener, but they feel like their whole writing practice has been transformed.
Today Is the Final Day to Get ALL the Bonuses
I think this book will change your writing life, but just in case you're still wondering if it's worth it, I'm willing to bribe you.
Today is the only day to get all $78 worth of bonuses when you buy the book in any format (although we recommend the brand new paperback). Here's what you'll get:
- Bonus #1: Book Plan Mini-Course ($40 value). Includes our unique Scrivener Templates, which you can't get anywhere else, plus a video lesson and workbook on how to create a book plan, which is one of the best ways to make sure you actually finish your book.
- Bonus #2: No Nonsense Novel Template ($10 value), the Scrivener template M. G. Herron uses to write his books, and he explains how to use it in Scrivener Superpowers. It's the perfect companion to the book.
- Bonus #3: Interactive Workbook ($20), a Scrivener mini-course, where you'll learn how to go through the entire process of setting up your book and then exporting it for publishing.
- Bonus #4: Two Video Interviews With Successful Authors ($8 value) where you'll find out how other two other authors use Scrivener to give their writing a boost.
These bonuses will help you become a more confident, savvier writer. They're worth far more than the price of the book—there's no reason not to get it!
After today, you will no longer be able to get all of these bonuses together. You have until tomorrow, Wednesday, July 25, at noon Pacific time to get the bonuses, so don't miss it.
Here's how to get your bonuses:
- Buy the book in any format
- Forward your receipt to scrivenersuperpowers@robot.zapier.com
- Check your email to receive the bonuses
Easy, right?
Click here to order the book now
Is This Book for You?
Scrivener Superpowers will not only change your approach to Scrivener, it will change your writing life. But don't take my word for it. Here's what other authors are saying:
“Matt’s book will help those new to Scrivener make the most of its features without getting overwhelmed.” —NY Times bestselling author Joanna Penn, TheCreativePenn.com
“Before you write your next book, read this one first. I highly recommend Scrivener to authors, but it can be a little hard to learn. Finally, we have a guide worthy of the work ahead of us.”—Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Goins, GoinsWriter.com
“Scrivener Superpowers is so good, and so easy to read, that I’ve decided to write my next novel in Scrivener!” —USA Today bestselling author Michael Bunker, MichaelBunker.com
“It’s all here: what the program does, how to use it, how to access the “secret” features, and, just as importantly, how to implement it into good writing habits.” —Amazon bestselling author K.M. Weiland, HelpingWritersBecomeAuthors.com
Sound interesting? On Tuesday, July 18, you can purchase the paperback copy of Scrivener Superpowers. Best of all, we're giving away $78 worth of exclusive bonuses when you do!
What's In the Book
Scrivener Superpowers is a 196-page book about how to transform your writing process with Scrivener, the cutting edge software for writers. If you don't have Scrivener, but are interested in seeing how it can change your writing life, you can get a free trial of Scrivener here.
But this is not just another technical manual. It’s an entertaining, easy-to-read, deeply helpful guide that will teach you to take your story from concept to completion using the most cutting-edge writing program available.
It will lead you through Scrivener's best features with screenshots and illustrations. More importantly, though, it shows how to apply those features to the creative writing process to help you write more, write faster, and have more fun doing it.
The book is also packed with advice from other successful authors about how they use Scrivener, so you can focus directly on what Scrivener can do for you and your writing.
You can get your copy of the book here!
Get Scrivener Superpowers!
Transform your writing process with Scrivener Superpowers and learn how to write more, write faster, and have more fun doing it.
I'm so excited for you to read this book. I think you're going to love it.
The more emails I receive about these new gimmicks, like Scrivener, that arrive simply checkmates me.
Then we have another self-proclaimed genius comes up with a 196 page ‘book’ that will make understanding the problem ‘easy’.
Why don’t people write; instead of spending their whole time either writing about ‘how’ to write or ‘reading’ about writing?!
And as to the 196 page book. It could be suggested to the author, “Omit needless words”!
I forget the name of the author, but he said, “Look, if you have something to say of any importance, if you can’t say it in seventy five pages; it won’t be any clearer after three hundred and fifty pages”.
I don’t know how anyone has the time to write anything of worth reading all of the flotsam and jetsam that is shoveled up. The more there is of it; the less valuable it becomes. And, you have to pay for it. It’s like pay TV. There are 60 channels available but there still nothing to watch.
1. The book is written to explain how to use Scrivener, which is quite challenging to use with no instruction. That is the problem: how to use Scrivener. The book does solve this problem, and yes, it makes it “easy”.
2. Again, Scrivener is a tool that writers have the potential to use. I stress potential. However the tool is confusing, and one may need some help figuring out how to use the tool in the first place and then apply the tool to their own style, which the book does. So, Mr. Herron wrote a book that teaches the reader how to use a tool that can improve their writing. People write about writing to help those who don’t know where to start or want to get better, and people read about it to better themselves, and that way they can write more efficiently.
3. Using your analogy of pay TV, maybe someone else would like to watch one of the sixty channels.
Not a gimmick, just a tool. As far as writing time, most professional writers I know, even bestselling authors, can only write for about 5 hours a day. Writing, like any deep work, is mentally draining, and it’s difficult to do much of it at one time. So, assuming you sleep 7 hours a night, what are you going to do with those other 12 hours? Learning, improving your habits, reading, even reading a few reference manuals on the best tools for writers—these all seem like a great use of your time.
As far as the premise, the more there is, the less valuable it becomes, I couldn’t disagree more. Art, like love, is not a commodity, and it’s not a resource made more valuable by scarcity.
Scrivener is the opposite of a gimmick. A gimmick is cute, tricky. It breaks on third use. Scrivener is substantial. It’s powerful. It’s flexible, adaptable. No matter how communications technology changes, no matter how reading tastes change, so long as we communicate in words–lots of words–Scrivener can help us organize them efficiently to convey meaning. “Tool” is almost too small a word for it. I’d liken it to a milling machine, powerful in the hands of a skilled worker.
What format is the book in when ordered directly? The order form doesn’t ask whether it’s for Kindle, Kobo, etc. Only asks for email. Does that mean you’ll send a pdf? Yuck.
You get a zip file with the book in three different formats: epub (which will work with a Kobo), mobi (Kindle format) and PDF.
Hey Skipper! It mentions that here on the sales page, http://scrivenersuperpowers.com/purchase, and as anontwit says, it’s available in ePub (for nook/iPhone/iPad), Kindle, and a beautifully formatted PDF (if I do say so myself). Thanks!
Yes thanks. After commenting, I went back to the page to grouse at it and saw the file format list my eyes had passed over earlier. Read the book last night. Useful for writers who might have memorized lots of Scrivener functions from a manual and still not have any idea how to use them. There was lots of overlap between what the the six quoted authors and Herron covered, and I bet Herron could have used some of those pages to cover more of his own techniques.
Trying to buy through PayPal, clicking “Continue” in the checkout/review step just loops back to that checkout/review (the same page) without an error msg or other information…looks like somebody did not program this right 🙁
Sorry to hear that Simon. It’s working for me, but it’s strange that that’s happening. I’ve sent you an email. Hopefully we can help see what’s going on.
SO excited about this.
Thanks Kevin!
OK, I’ll accept the collective ‘up-in-arms’ about how good this it. So I went to PP to pay for it and as Simonjm says below, when Continue is clicked it just loops back to the Continue button.
Yes, it looks like someone is costing someone a lot of sales.
Strange. I haven’t heard of anyone else having that issue. I’ll definitely look into it! I’ve sent you an email. Perhaps you can provide me with more details about what happened there. Thanks!
Well, this is just bloody lovely…I tried to pay for the book, and clicked on the Continue button a couple of times just to make sure I’ve done the right thing…PayPal have shut my account down until I can prove it’s me using it.
Get it right Joe!!!
I’m sorry to hear that! How strange. While this is the first time I’ve heard of an issue like this happening, I can imagine how frustrating it would be. In general, it’s good to be careful about pressing the purchase button several times. Sometimes it can result in several charges. While I don’t see any duplicate purchases on our end (perhaps because Paypal is holding them), we’ll of course refund them for you if they come through. I’ve sent you an email, and while I’m not sure what’s causing that, I hope we can help. Thanks.
Still getting Paypal loop problems. Tried first thing Friday morning, now it’s Monday morning my (Aussie) time. Continue button does not work on Paypal for this transaction page, although I risked clicking it twice.
It’s not PayPal, it’s the function on your order page which does not work
paypal did not shut anyone’s account, I am using mine all the time.
Rectify your order page please
Ordered the book through the link in the e-mail and didn’t have any problem. I started with Scrivener, and just using the basic features, so looking forward to unlocking all the secret stuff! 😉
Bought and paid for have the receipt but it won’t download or open or do what ever it is supposed to?
Do you plan on doing the same for Scrivener on iOS?
Wow, is Scrivener now available on iOS?
It is, and yes, it’s just as amazing!
We may update this book in the future with some tips for iOS. Personally, I’m enjoying using Scrivener for iOS!
I purchased the paper back. Waiting for the invoice to come through in my email. I like books I can hold in my hands when they are instructional.
I agree with that!
Great! I hope you enjoy the book, Alice!
Joe, dearest Joe, I’m interested in purchasing the paperback (Like AliceF. I need to hold it in my hand). BUT will you send it to me to Japan¿?!¡¿?
I’m pretty sure Amazon ships to Japan! Either order through amazon.com or through the book’s Japanese page: https://www.amazon.co.jp/Scrivener-Superpowers-Cutting-Edge-Software-Energize/dp/1546445978
Send us a picture of it from Japan when you get it!
Thanks.
Checking their shipping page, yes, they do ship to Japan: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=596200
I purchased the kindle version and the email hasn’t come through yet. I went ahead and printed the invoice off as a pdf and tried to forward that and the email was rejected with the following error: DNS Error: 62616020 DNS type ‘mx’ lookup of robots.zapier.com responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: robots.zapier.com
It’s funny I’ve already read the first 20 pages of the kindle version but just still waiting for the order email to come through.
Oh good! Let me know if you need anything!
Just ordered my hard-copy. Amazon say it should arrive here in Australia by 10 to 15 August.
Awesome! Go ahead and forward the receipt now and we’ll send over your bonuses ASAP.
Have done, and bonuses already received! I love Scrivener but feel I may not have been getting the most out of it due to the learning curve. I think this will definitely help.
One question: if I don’t have time to view the videos now, can I come back to that page later, or does it expire?
Yes, you’ll have access as long as the page is up, which is indefinitely.
Thank you!
Hey Joe! I bought t’he book and sent youtube t’he e-mail but didn’t get any e-mail or bonus… Did you get tmy e-mail? Thank you!!
Hey Alexandra! We realized we had an extra “s” in the email address. If you forward your receipt to the email address in this post, scrivenersuperpowers@robot.zapier.com, we’ll send over the bonuses ASAP! Thank you!
Hi Joe!
I sent the e-mail again yesterday. Could you please confirm that you got it? I am not sure whether you need more time to send the bonuses or whether you didn’t get my e-mail…
Thanks!!!
Hi Joe, I ordered the book yesterday and attempted to forward my order confirmation to the email address provided in your email, but it was repeatedly rejected. Is there any way to still get the bonuses? Thanks!
Hey Melissa! I’m so sorry about that. We realized we had an extra “s” in the email address. If you forward your receipt to the email address in this post, scrivenersuperpowers@robot.zapier.com, we’ll send over the bonuses ASAP!
Thanks so much, Joe! Email sent and bonuses received. I can’t wait to dive in. Cheers!
You are welcome! Now you have me worried that I didn’t go through co.au (if there is such a thing). Shipping and handling was AU$20.86. Although that was with another book I ordered to accompany it.
Joe, I bought the book, sent the proof and did not get an email telling me which bonus’ I have received. Can you check? Cecily Mahoney cmahoneyusa@gmail.com
I place an order for the book just yesterday and I received it this morning and I ordered scrivener for my macbook pro laptop. Thank you Joe.
Just received my copy today. Will be reading it over the next few days then will consider reviewing it.
Oddly, Amazon’s ‘Track Package’ says it is still on its way and not due to arrive until this coming Friday!
Hello Joe Bunting. Thank you. I got my book today!!! Yay.
Though I cannot get into it for a while, I’m glad it’s in my possession now. Thank you.
Hi, Joe. I want to let you know that I have found this book invaluable, and it has changed my writing practice. The pity of it is that Amazon won’t permit me to write a review. I was so keen to buy this book that I joined Amazon for that express purpose. Apparently I will be unable to write any reviews until I have met some rather complex requirements that give me a headache even trying to parse. It is a shame as I would have given it 4 and a half stars at least. I did want to share one insight with everyone: I use Scrivener for Linux (my laptop runs Ubuntu) and so recommend for any fellow Linux users to read the Windows chapters of the book. Scrivener for Linux is virtually identical in function to Scrivener for Windows. Thanks.