The #AmWriting Podcast: the second-longest-running writing podcast in the biz*
This is the place where we help writers of all kinds play big in your writing life, love the process, and stick with it long enough to finish what matters most.
Jennie Nash is the host of the #amwriting podcast. Jennie is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company setting the gold standard in book coach certification. Jennie is the author of 12 books in 3 genres, including Blueprint for a Book series.
On #amwriting, you’ll find one of these kinds of episodes:
Classic #amwriting episodes — honest, insightful, and full of hard-won advice about writing, revising, publishing, and staying creative.
Hot Seat Coaching— Jennie (and soon other coaches) coach writers live.
Write Big — Jennie dives into the mindset and strategy that help writers think bigger and share their work with the world.
Margin Notes — Jennie and her guests discuss the big decisions in a writing life
Book Lab — Paid subscribers get to submit their first page or jacket copy to find out if we’d keep reading the book
Twice a year we’ll host a Blueprint Challenge — a guided, hands-on way to start or revise your next project and see it through. We usually do these in January and in the summer. They’re so much fun – and super effective.
You can also dive into 10 years of #amwriting episodes at any time:
The above video was created way back in … 2018… when KJ Dell’Antonia and Jess Lahey first realized that we couldn’t sustain this podcast on love alone. They built the #amwriting podcast into a trusted place for writers to find their people, their momentum, and the motivation to finish the work that matters most.
At #amwriting, we believe in encouragement over perfection, community over competition, and showing up — even when it’s hard — because that’s how the words get written.
The OG hosts:
KJ Dell’Antonia is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters and Playing the Witch Card, and the former editor of the NYT’s Motherlode blog. She writes about joy, purpose, and persistence — in work, family, and writing. On #amwriting, she shares her process (and her stumbles) in #AmWritingEveryDay.
Jess Lahey is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation, as well as a longtime teacher and journalist. She’s endlessly curious about how stories get made — and what happens once they hit the world. With Sarina, she co-hosts Nerd Corner, diving into the ins and outs of publishing.
Sarina Bowen is the USA Today–bestselling author of more than thirty romance novels and several thrillers, including the Brooklyn Bruisers and Ivy Years series. A traditional and indie publishing pro, she knows every corner of the book business. Alongside Jess, she co-hosts Nerd Corner, exploring the inner workings of publishing with humor and heart.
*Joanna Penn at The Creative Penn has us beat by about 200 episodes… but no one else has hung in quite so long or determinedly as we have. Am I wrong? Email me (amwritingpodcast AT substack.com) and I’ll give credit where credit is due!
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Start with the basics, and get our an email every week with a podcast, links and shownotes. Once in awhile, you’ll also get delightful essay laying out exactly how to create a novel notebook, or pitch agents and editors, or struggle through a tough revision.
Want to toss a few bucks in the can to support the podcast you love? You’re a Founder, then, my friend (IYKYK) and we are so grateful. You are allowing us to do what we do best: offer practical, useful, actionable steps to help you achieve your writing goals.
Founders get:
Access to occassional AMAs
Access to our Blueprint for a Book program
All of the paid benefits
Our deepest thanks!
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