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Is Your Book Getting Better—or Safer?
Do your Voodoos of Ambition Ever Get a Day Off?
Get better at seeing and solving problems in your own work.
How Do You Know When It’s Time to Blow Up Your Book?
Let’s chat about Episode 523!
Margin Notes: Juggling Opportunities and Rewriting the Story After Mistakes
Let’s chat about Episode 522!
Margin Notes: Making Marketing a Creative Project with Stuart Wakefield
You’re Invited: Come Chat about This Week’s Episode
Write Big: Beyond the Book Deal
Write Big: Traditional Submission Ends, Commitment Continues
Bonus Margin Notes: Finishing the Blueprint: Recognizing the Shift from Planning to Writing
Write Big: Stop Begging to Be Chosen Part 2
BookLab: The Art of Storytelling with Kathleen Barber
Hot Seat Coaching: Refining Andrew’s Gothic Vampire Chapter
Write Big: People Are a Good Use of Time Part 2
BookLab: 3 First Pages, 3 Vibes, One Question
Margin Notes: Monsters in the Archive with Caroline Bicks
Write Big: People Are a Good Use of Time
Live with Jennie Nash
Revising with the Blueprint: A Summer Challenge Success Story
Hot Seat Coaching: Pressure-Testing a Story Engine with Two Villains
Hot Seat Coaching: Reframing a Prostate Cancer Book for Clarity, Voice, and Marketability
Reframing Success: A New Take on Self-Worth for Writers
Hot Seat Coaching: From Concept to Page: The Journey of a Thriller with Andrew Parrella
Write Big: Rejection as Rocket Fuel
Write Big: Stop Begging to Be Chosen
Write Big: The Writer in the Arena
Big Time: How to find time abundance in your writer life
Hot Seat Coaching: Building a Killer Twist: Going Deeper Inside a Gothic Mystery Blueprint
Hot Seat Coaching: Exploring Protagonist Depth with Andrew Parrella
Write Big 16: How to Sound Like Yourself in a Noisy World
The Decision to Keep Writing After Grief, Illness, or Heartbreak
You’re Not Stuck—You’re Holding Back
Live with Jennie Nash
10 Years of #amwriting: Looking Back and Moving Forward
"I Had the Full Heart of the Question In My Hand."
Write the Book Readers Can’t Stop Recommending (Write Big, Ep 14)
Ep 492: What book format benefits authors most?
What Finishing a Book Teaches You About Showing Up (Write Big, Ep 13)
Quit Laughing at My WOTY It's Not Funny.
How to Take the (long, elegant) Gloves Off and Write Like You
Finding the Ideal Reader: How the Blueprint Shaped a Physician’s Next Project (Bonus Episode)
December Booklab
Blueprint for Revision: The System That Makes Revision Finally Make Sense
An Invitation to the January Blueprint!
How to Write the Book Only You Can Write
Thanksgiving Gratitude
Ep 475 Publishing Nerd Corner: How Audiobooks are Made
Ep 472 Publishing Nerd Corner: Earning Out
How to Make a Quiet Novel Roar
On Interviewing Kids
The Scammer's Guide to Writers
When You’ve Written the Right Scene in the Wrong Place
Publishing Nerd Corner: Your Copyright and the Anthropic Settlement
Interviewing with Jeff Selingo
The Beauty in Writing About Tragedy
Find Your Voice, Write Your Genius
Writing Thrilling People & Places: Jess and Sarina talk with Tess Gerritsen
Karin Slaughter Does it Again
How to Deliver Both Feels and Fun
A Deep Dive Into Genre
How to Take a Break
Stephanie Pao has the job we all want. She owns a romance bookstore on wheels.
How to Capture Emotion on the Page
In Search of the Beast in the Clouds with author Nathalia Holt
Ep 454 Mid-Year Check-In
The Ultimate How To: Write, Pitch, Maybe Publish with Kate McKean from Agents+Books
The Gift of Failure: Author Version
New Series: From Soup to Nuts
Should there be a body? Writing is Revising with Meg Mitchell Moore
Sticking it to the Book Banners: A Glorious Tale of Victory
How to Focus on Work in a Chaotic World
Imagining the Life of Jo Van Gogh
Reading a Book Contract
Novel Writing for Journalists with the NYT's Elizabeth Harris
The Business of Being a Writer
Booklab: First Pages (a bite of sci-fi/fantasy action-adventure and Conditioned, a memoir)
A.I. Training and Piracy: What You Need to Know
Creativity, Compromise, and Commercial Viability
How (and Why) to Submit to Literary Mags and Small Presses
A Peek Inside a Hybrid Publisher
The Outer World of Publishing
How to Have a Thick Skin, with Lauren Blakely
Writing Partnerships with Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson
Wrangling the Doubt Monster with Amy Bernstein
Consider the Sweep of Your Whole Writing Career
Social Media: What Happens Now?
Treat your writing like a business in 2025
The Making of a Workbook
A People Pleaser Learns to Write the Book She Wants to Write
#AmWriting podcast bonus episode with Jess
Using the Blueprint for Revision
What's your word for 2025? We review 2024 goals and set up 2025 in Episode 428
From #FamilyStory to Fiction
Introducing the Winter Blueprint Challenge Coaches
Ep 424: How a Blueprint Can Keep Your Book on Course
#Writer Gift Extravaganza
From Substack Serial to Trad Novel with...
#AnxietyInducing. A Candid Discussion on A.I.