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The Ultimate How To: Write, Pitch, Maybe Publish with Kate McKean from Agents+Books

Five things podcast guests need to know

WTB: Is It Harder to Trust Your Gut Now?

The Gift of Failure: Author Version

WTB: Playing Big, Writing Scared, and Wrestling with the Work

New Series: From Soup to Nuts

Ask Me Anything with Jennie

WTB: Why Dollars and Deadlines Matter

Should there be a body? Writing is Revising with Meg Mitchell Moore

May Booklab First Pages: The Dictograph Case, Hands Free and Loons

#HowTo: Navigating #AmWriting on Substack

Sticking it to the Book Banners: A Glorious Tale of Victory

WTB: We hope you didn't think this was going to be a short series

How to Focus on Work in a Chaotic World

WTB: When the draft hits a wall...

Imagining the Life of Jo Van Gogh

WTB: The text no one wants from their beta reader

Reading a Book Contract

April Booklab First Pages: Unlocked, Triple Crown and Mystery Shaman Meat

Novel Writing for Journalists with the NYT's Elizabeth Harris

April AMA with KJ: Anything, plus conferences, lit fests and more fun

WTB: Should Writing Be Fun?

The Business of Being a Writer

WTB: Are You a Sticker or a Sprinter?

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

It's an #AmWriting podcast Jess AMA day!

How (and Why) to Submit to Literary Mags and Small Presses

The Winter Blueprint Challenge Review Drawing WINNER Announcement

How to Enter the Winter Blueprint Challenge Review Drawing

A Peek Inside a Hybrid Publisher

Where do we go from here?

Blueprint for a Book Step 10: How to Go From Planning a Book to Writing One

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 10 AMA

The Outer World of Publishing

Who doesn't love a good checklist?

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 9 AMA

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 9: But Does this Book Work?

How to Have a Thick Skin, with Lauren Blakely

There's a reason for the rules even if I don't like them

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 8 AMA

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 8: One Outline to Rule Them All (Even if You Hate Outlining)

Writing Partnerships with Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson

Because of That, I was forced to see where my plot needed to shift

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 7 AMA

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 7: How to Drive that Narrative Forward

Wrangling the Doubt Monster with Amy Bernstein

Where to Start and Why: Once again, it only sounds easy

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 6 AMA

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 6: What's the Structure of Your Narrative?

Consider the Sweep of Your Whole Writing Career

Deceptively Simple-Sounding (again): The Arc of Change

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 5 AMA

WBP25 Blueprint for a Book Step 5: There Must Be Change

Social Media: What Happens Now?

#WriterTaxes, 2025 edition

KJ's Somewhat Useful Flap Copy Cheats and Hacks

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 4 AMA

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 4: Your Jacket Copy is Your Promise to the Reader

Title, Genre, Ideal Reader.... so easy! Hahahaha or not

Treat your writing like a business in 2025

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 3 AMA

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 3: Who Will Read My Book? Know Your Market

The Making of a Workbook

Where's a good cliche when you need one?

It's a Jennie AMA!

Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 2 AMA: What is Your Point?

If Lorne Michaels Could Decipher His Point, So Can You

BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 2: What's Your Point?

KJ: Why Start with Why?

A People Pleaser Learns to Write the Book She Wants to Write

It's a Jess AMA day!

Blueprint for a Book: Week 1 AMA!

Blueprinters, Introduce yourself in the chat!

#AmWriting podcast bonus episode with Jess

Winter Blueprint for a Book Challenge Step 1: Find Your Why

Welcome to the Winter 2025 Blueprint Challenge!

ACTION NEEDED: Winter Blueprint for a Book begins next week!

Using the Blueprint for Revision

Using Mindfulness to Master the Blueprint

Befriending the Blueprint