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Hello Rebels and welcome to fireside chat number three between Rachael Herron and I. This is The Black Herron Episode three.

Don’t forget, Patrons get early access to these episode an entire month early and then we air them on the podcast feeds the following month. If you’d like to hear them early you can join me on Patreon from as little as $2 right here.

To find out more about Rachael, you can listen to her show “How Do You Write” or visit her website.

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Episode Show Notes

This week’s questions is: How do you battle imposter syndrome and self-doubt?

Book recommendation this week Marketing Rebellion by Mark Schaefer

Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3fz72rB

Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/2WgTLMB

Don’t forget The Anatomy of Prose is on preorder, you can get it in ebook, paperback or hardback now. Click the link here.

Preorder the Workbook here.

Find out more about today’s guest Sarah Painter on her:

worriedwriter.com

sarah-painter.com

Twitter @SarahRPainter

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpainterbooks/

https://www.instagram.com/sarahpainterbooks/

Listener Rebel of the Week is Alex Kourvo

If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod

Thank you to new patrons this week Yanni Jade and Angela Guido. If you’d like to support the show, and get access to all the bonus essays, posts and content, you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack

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Wait, no. What I mean to say is,

THE BLOGGERS BASH TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE

Get them while they are hot folks because the venue does have a capacity limit, and that means tickets are limited.

It’s first come first serve. So, once the tickets are gone, you ain’t getting in. We have bouncers. **

Tickets are £10 that’s ten pounds sterling and can be brought using the PayPal button at the bottom, your ticket will be sent to you before the event.

And don’t forget, if you want to be in with the chance to win a bucket load of blogger and author prizes, we are running a blogging competition here, which closes at the end of Feb.

The Bloggers Bash, for anyone that doesn’t know, is an annual event for bloggers. It’s a physical meet up in London, England and it’s open to any blogger from any platform, in any country.

The Bash itself will be held on Saturday the 10th June 2017 in the Wellington Suite in the Grange Wellington Hotel. 71 Vincent Square, Westminster, London SW1P 2PA

Timings and the exact breakdown of the day will be available closer to the event, but it will start mid-morning this year and end in the evening. We announce the winners of the Bloggers Bash Awards, which you, the blogging public, vote for. You can see last year’s winners here. There are speeches, and hugs, and a lot of catching up between old friends. If one thing is certain, it’s that your face will ache from smiling and laughing.

WANT TO CONNECT WITH ATTENDEES BEFORE THE EVENT?

Before the day, we post a blog with the links to all the attendees. If you would like to be mentioned in that blog post, then please drop us a line with your blog address and your name: annualbloggersbash@yahoo.co.uk If you don’t send us your information, you won’t be in the post.

The SMALL Print

• Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled
• Tickets are non-transferable
• Tickets are limited on a first come first served basis
• Cost of a ticket is for entry to the event only (not for food or anything else)
• Those buying a ticket agree to comply with any health & safety rules set by the venue and to behave in a way that will not impact upon the enjoyment of other people
• The Committee reserves the right to change the venue and/or agenda of the event
• Payment for tickets via PayPal only.

** Please note, we do not actually have bouncers on the door. However, Hugh may well stop people on entry to hug them, and that can cause severe entry delays.

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It simply gives you one word and you have 60 seconds to write about it… I cant seem to get it to give me a different word, but I am thinking I may use this when i get stuck or lack inspiration and take out the dictionary….

I had the word:

‘welt’… and I wrote:

The welt was etched into her skin like the script on a tombstone. She pawed at it as pain burned up her arm. She wondered whether it would ever heal, knowing deep down it was going to leave a scar.

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