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The Press

FOUNDED in 2013 by Joshua Allen Mercier, The Bearded Scribe Press hopes to become the go-to site for up-and-coming authors under the massive Speculative Fiction umbrella. Whether discovered through editing requests, review requests, regular submission for publications, or through answers to submission calls for its planned anthologies, we plan to stick by our mission to find tomorrow’s top speculative fiction authors today.

The submission call—and what launched the publishing company—for our first anthology, Twice Upon A Time, returned over 120 submissions. The caliber of stories that answered that first submission call made cutting it down to the 44 stories that went into the final result extremely difficult. It made Joshua extremely grateful to Rachel for the suggestion to publish an anthology, answering a call of his own to help other authors create spectacular speculative fiction and to finally have a place to showcase it.

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Scrivener

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Scrivener

Typewriter. Ringbinder. Scrapbook.*

ABOUT

LITERATURE & LATTE, the creators of Scrivener, is a software company founded by writers for writers. Everything they do is born of a passion for bringing together processes familiar to writers in new and exciting ways. What if moving index cards on a corkboard changed the structure of your manuscript? What if you could move notes around on an infinite sheet of paper?

Literature & Latte was founded in 2006 to answer such questions, and their award-winning software is now used by thousands of writers the world over. It’s helped turn napkins into novels, thoughts into theses, and scribbles into screenplays.

While their headquarters are in Cornwall, UK, their small team spans the globe. They’re united by a love of writing and literature, our pride in their products, and the respect they have for their customers and the community that has grown up around their software.

And why “Literature & Latte”? Because their apps are designed to make writers feel right at home—like your favorite bookstore or coffee shop. So grab a latté. Put your fingers on the keyboard. And get writing.

Grow your manuscript your way

TAILOR-MADE for long writing projects, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea.

See the forest or  the trees

WHETHER you plan or plunge, Scrivener works your way: hammer out every last detail before typing a word, or carve out a draft and restructure later. Or mix your methods and do a bit of both. In Scrivener, everything you write is integrated into an easy-to-use project outline. So working with an overview of your manuscript is only ever a click away, and turning Chapter Four into Chapter One is as simple as drag and drop.

Research within reach

NEED to refer to research? In Scrivener, your background material is always at hand, and you can open it right next to your work. Write a description based on a photograph. Transcribe an interview. Take notes about a PDF file or web page. Or check for consistency by referencing an earlier chapter alongside the one in progress.

Getting it out there

ONCE you’re ready to share your work with the world, compile everything into a single document for printing, self-publishing, or exporting to popular formats such as Word, PDF, Final Draft or plain text. You can even share using different formatting, so that you can write in your favorite font and still satisfy those submission guidelines.

*All verbiage above taken from [and copyright held by] the Literature & Latte website.
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Our Partners

PARTNERSHIPS in the context of our website refer to collaborative relationships with other businesses or organizations that share our values and goals. These partnerships can take various forms, including joint marketing campaigns, co-branded initiatives, or shared resources to provide enhanced value to our audience. By working closely with trusted partners, we aim to expand our offerings, improve user experience, and create mutually beneficial opportunities.

Our website actively engages in partnerships with select companies and organizations to bring you high-quality products, services, or information. These collaborations are carefully chosen to ensure relevance and value to our visitors. When you engage with our partnered content or offerings, you can trust that they meet our standards of quality and integrity, enriching your experience on our platform.

Plottr

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Plottr

Plan Your Books the Way You Think!*

Visualize Your Plot Points

Plottr lets you easily arrange (and rearrange) your scenes, plots, and character arcs so you can quickly find your way to the end of your tale — no corkboard required.
  • Quickly outline your book with visual story cards
  • Filter your timeline by characters, places, and tags
  • Color-coordinate your storylines to keep them organized
  • Flip the timeline to view it vertically or horizontally

Create Your Story Bible

Can’t remember the name of the diner in Chapter 3—or where the diner is? Don’t waste time combing through old notes and index cards. Track your characters and places with Plottr.
  • Visually organize your characters and places
  • Link your characters and places to your scenes
  • Create custom attributes to track specific details, like special powers or geographical trivia

Automate Your Outlnes

Want to see your entire story at a glance? Plottr automatically generates a clean outline of your story for you to review, edit, and export as the basis of your manuscript.
  • Generate an outline automatically based on what you've created
  • Autosave ensures your work is always safe
  • Edit your scenes in outline view and filter them by storylines
  • Export your outline to Microsoft Word and Scrivener

Start with Proven Templates

You don’t have to start from scratch. Plottr comes with over a dozen templates (and counting) based on proven storytelling structures to help move your story from idea to execution.
  • Starter templates from Hero's Journey to Romancing the Beat
  • Writing to market? Use a genre-specific template
  • Create your own plotline and character sheet templates

Export to Word & Scrivener

The fun is just beginning. Once you’ve finished outlining your story, Plottr makes it easy to start writing—just export your files and let your creative muscles get to work!
  • Export your outline to MS Word & Scrivener in seconds
  • Use your outline as the basis of your manuscript
*All verbiage above taken from [and copyright held by] the Plottr website.
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Our Affiliates

AFFILIATE MARKETING is a performance-based marketing strategy where businesses reward affiliates for driving traffic or sales to their website through the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Affiliates promote products or services using unique tracking links, and when a user makes a purchase or completes a desired action through that link, the affiliate earns a commission. This model benefits both the business, as it expands its reach and sales through various marketing channels, and affiliates, who can monetize their online platforms and audiences.

Our website leverages affiliate marketing to recommend products and services that we believe add value to our audience. When visitors make purchases through our affiliate links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to them. This helps support our website’s operations and allows us to continue providing valuable content and resources. Rest assured, we only promote products or services that align with our values and that we genuinely recommend.

IN the spirit of full disclosure—this site accepts compensation from advertisement/sponsors, affiliate programs, donations, and other forms of commission.

The compensation we receive will never influence the content, topics, or posts made in this blog. Advertising space may not always be identified. ALL of the affiliate links on our website are denoted—upon hovering on a link, if you see #affiliatelink pop up, then you are being redirected to an affiliate site. The owner of this site is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owner of this site may receive commission for advertisements and affiliate programs, The Bearded Scribe Press will always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those services or products. The views and opinions expressed on this site are purely our own.

Neither Joshua Allen Mercier nor The Bearded Scribe Press are responsible for any products ordered from our affiliate merchants and we cannot be held responsible for any actions of our affiliated merchants. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.

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Cynthia Ward

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Cynthia Ward

CYNTHIA WARD was born in Oklahoma and lived in Maine, Spain, West Germany, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Tucson before moving to the Los Angeles area. An alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, she has published two short novels, The Adventure of the Incognita Countess and The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum with Aqueduct Press. She has also sold stories to Asimov’s SF Magazine, Analog, Nightmare, Weird Tales, and other anthologies and magazines. Cynthia’s reviews appear regularly in The Cascadia Subduction Zone and irregularly in other websites and publications. She is working on the next Bloodthirsty Agent adventure.

With author Nisi Shawl, Cynthia teaches the acclaimed fiction writers workshop, Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction.

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Twice Upon A Time

Angela Wallace

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Angela Wallace

ANGELA WALLACE has been penning adventures ever since she was sucked through a magical portal as a child. What she saw and whom she met gave birth to exciting and complex fantasy worlds where defying the laws of physics was a bonus. She has since come back down to earth, only to discover this mortal realm has magic of its own.

Now she is also quite at home in the world of urban fantasy, though believes that love, faith, and hope are of a stronger magic than fire wielding and sorcery. She loves gun-toting good boys, and could have been a cop in another life except real blood makes her queasy. She’ll have to stick to solving supernatural mysteries. Language is her pleasure, whether it’s weaving words on a page or lassoing linguistics into translations as a sign language interpreter.

Angela is currently working on her next book. She is the winner of the 2013 Best Indie Book Award in Fantasy.

Books
Twice Upon A Time

Deborah Walker

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Deborah Walker

DEBORAH WALKER grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to
London, where she now lives with her two teenage children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration or on her blog.

Her stories have appeared in Nature’s Futures, Cosmos, Daily Science Fiction and The Year’s Best SF 18 and have been translated into a dozen languages.

Books
Twice Upon A Time