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495: Hot Seat Coaching: Producer Andrew Parrella Steps Out From Behind the Mic
494: "I Had the Full Heart of the Question In My Hand."
493: Write the Book Readers Can’t Stop Recommending(Write Big, Ep 14)
492: Ep 492: What book format benefits authors most?
491: What Finishing a Book Teaches You About Showing Up (Write Big, Ep 13)
489: Quit Laughing at My WOTY It's Not Funny.
488: Why A Growth Mindset Matters In The Writing Life (Write Big, Ep 12)
487: How to Take the (long, elegant) Gloves Off and Write Like You
486: You have To Tell Everybody It’s The Best Damn Book in the World and They Need to Read It (Write Big, Ep 11)
485: Reclaiming Your Rights and Your Legacy (Ep 10)
484: Turn Toward the Work That Lights You Up (Ep. 9)
483: Blueprint for Revision: The System That Makes Revision Finally Make Sense
482: An Invitation to the January Blueprint!
481: How to Write the Book Only You Can Write
480: Pulitzer Winner Jennifer Senior on Knowing Your Voice (Ep 8)
479: Playing Big Means Treating Your Writing Like a Business (Ep 7)
478: Thanksgiving Gratitude
477: How to Write What You Love and What Readers Want (Ep 6)
476: Trusting Your Gut with Mary Laura Phillpot (Ep 5)
475: Ep 475 Publishing Nerd Corner: How Audiobooks are Made
474: How to Make a Big Move When You’re Stuck in the Muddy Middle
473: How Writing Big Shows Up on the Page (Ep 3)
472: Ep 472 Publishing Nerd Corner: Earning Out
471: How to Make a Quiet Novel Roar
How Writers Play Small Without Even Realizing It (Ep 2)
The Bold Shift That Changes Everything (Ep 1)
470: Write Big: Welcome to the Write Big Sessions (Ep 0)
469: On Interviewing Kids
468: The Scammer's Guide to Writers
467: When You’ve Written the Right Scene in the Wrong Place
466: Publishing Nerd Corner: Your Copyright and the Anthropic Settlement
465: Interviewing with Jeff Selingo
464: The Beauty in Writing About Tragedy
463: Find Your Voice, Write Your Genius
462: Writing Thrilling People & Places: Jess and Sarina talk with Tess Gerritsen
461: Karin Slaughter Does it Again
460: How to Deliver Both Feels and Fun
459: A Deep Dive Into Genre
458: How to Take a Break
457: Stephanie Pao has the job we all want. She owns a romance bookstore on wheels.
456: How to Capture Emotion on the Page
455: In Search of the Beast in the Clouds with author Nathalia Holt
454: Ep 454 Mid-Year Check-In
453: The Ultimate How To: Write, Pitch, Maybe Publish with Kate McKean from Agents+Books
452: The Gift of Failure: Author Version
451: New Series: From Soup to Nuts
450: Shifting POVs, Adding or Subtracting a Body... Writing is Revising with Meg Mitchell Moore
449: Sticking it to the Book Banners: A Glorious Tale of Pyrrhic Victory
448: How to Focus on Work in a Chaotic World
447: Imagining the Life of Jo Van Gogh
446: Reading a Book Contract
445: Novel Writing for Journalists with the NYT's Elizabeth Harris
444: The Business of Being a Writer
443: Booklab: First Pages (a bite of sci-fi/fantasy action-adventure and Conditioned, a memoir)
442: A.I. Training and Piracy: What You Need to Know
441: Creativity, Compromise, and Commercial Viability
440: How (and Why) to Submit to Literary Mags and Small Presses
439: A Peek Inside a Hybrid Publisher
438: The Outer World of Publishing
437: How to Have a Thick Skin, with Lauren Blakely
436: Writing Partnerships with Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson
435: Wrangling the Doubt Monster with Amy Bernstein
434: Consider the Sweep of Your Whole Writing Career
433: Social Media: What Happens Now?
432: Treat your writing like a business in 2025
431: The Making of a Workbook
430: A People Pleaser Learns to Write the Book She Wants to Write
429: Using the Blueprint for Revision
428: What's your word for 2025? We review 2024 goals and set up 2025 in Episode 428
427: From #FamilyStory to Fiction
425: Booklab: First Pages-- a work of nonfiction (Hippodrome) and a novel (Mermaid Diner) are put to the test
424: Ep 424: How a Blueprint Can Keep Your Book on Course
#Writer Gift Extravaganza
423: From Substack Serial to Trad Novel with...
422: #AnxietyInducing. A Candid Discussion on A.I.
421: #Resilience Over the Long Haul
420: The Longest, Most Public MFA Ever
419: Ep. 419 What's a "Comp?"
418: "I knew you COULD revise it. I wasn't sure you WOULD."
417: When Your Book Becomes a TV Show
416: The Art of Helping Writers Do Their Best Work
415: Lyndsay Rush's Poetry is A Bit Much
Booklab: First Pages--Sailing out of a marriage and mysterious pie
414: Episode 414: Your Questions, Answered
413: How to Start a Novel from Scratch
412: Booklab First Pages: Redacted Kitty-Cat and Welcome to Heaven
411: Raising Your Voice, Claiming Your Story
410: Congrats, You're Publishing During the Election Cycle - Episode 410
409: Ep 409: Tag Along on a Speaking Trip with Jess!
#FlashbackFriday: Very Serious About Fun Reads with Emily Henry
408: How an Inside-Outline Can Save Your Revision (and maybe your book)
407: From Women’s Fiction to Romance in 30 Days
Flashback: Being Genre Flexible with Catherine Newman
406: Escaping the Lure of Attention and Approval with Kathleen Smith
405: Why you don't have to do it like that one writer in the NYT
Stop! Don't Write that Book (Yet)
404: An #AmWriting Success Story!
403: Tiny Worlds: How a nature illustrator and author built a fanbase for her work.
402: How Bad Can a Good First Draft Be?
401: Nothing Sells Books. But Books Still Sell.