The 7am Novelist Podcast
1) Nicole Graev Lipson: Dealing with Her Literary Forebears
Today, I’m talking to author Nicole Graev Lipson about where fiction ends and truth begins and how she searched for answers about being a mother among her literary forebears, without being too heavy-h...Show More
2) Roundtable: World Building for Other Worlds
Today we have another of our roundtables and we’re focusing on one of the hardest things for an author to get right: world building. Because this issue is so complex, I’m doing two world building roun...Show More
3) Lisa Borders: Voice, Likability, and the Onerous Unreliable Narrator
Today, we’ve got a very special guest, the person I cofounded the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program with and who is a beloved teacher and writer in the Boston area, Lisa Borders. Lisa’s latest novel,...Show More
4) Whitney Scharer & Sonya Larson on TBR: There's a New Writing Conference in Town!
Today, I’m talking to writers Whitney Scharer and Sonya Larson about an exciting new writing conference they’re starting up in the Boston area, the TBR conference which will be held this coming Januar...Show More
5) Lauren Aliza Green: When Rewriting Beats Revision
Today, we’ve got the wonderful Lauren Aliza Green, author of The World AfterAlice, and she’ll be talking to us about practicing rewriting over revision and how to do it while the world seems to be fal...Show More
6) ROUNDTABLE: WORLD BUILDING FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
Today we have another of our roundtables and we’re focusing on one of the hardest things for an author to get right: world building. Because this issue is complex, I’m going to hold two world building...Show More
7) Josh Cook of Porter Square Books: Keeping the Odometer Going
Today, I’m talking to author and book-seller Josh Cook about book bans, the beloved community space of bookstores, and what he thinks authors should know about book selling.Watch a recording here. Thi...Show More
8) Jyoti Chand: A Graphic Novelist Bounces Between Mediums (and she’s got quite a social media following too)
Today, we’re talking to the wonderful Jyoti Chand who will be discussing the inspiration behind her YA graphic novel, Fitting Indian, why the story needed to be told, and how she built a vibrant onlin...Show More
9) Zee Carlstrom: The Business of Brainstorming
Today, I’m lucky to get a chance to talk to Zee Carlstrom about their debut: Make Sure You Die Screaming. Zee practices a special kind of brainstorming for their projects, bringing together disparate ...Show More
10) Roundtable: Inviting the Reader Into Your Story
In our roundtable today, we’re focusing on the question: How does your book invite a reader’s interest, both intellectually and emotionally? What might that look like? What methods might an author use...Show More