The 7am Novelist

Jan 30 2025 212 ep. 34 mins 4
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Join award-winning novelist and writing coach Michelle Hoover and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, starting with a 50-day writing challenge.

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Milo Todd and Julie Carrick Dalton on Asparagus (and Making Room for Writers Unlike Yourself)

Jan 30 2025 44 mins  
Today, we hear from Milo Todd and Julie Carrick Dalton, close friends and supporters of each other, from their early novel drafts to their debuts and beyond. They’re going to talk about how they’ve done it, the work they do for others, and their hopes for the New Year.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast ve

Randy Susan Meyers and Jennifer S. Brown on Truth in Fiction

Jan 28 2025 33 mins  
Today, we hear from Jennifer S. Brown and Randy Susan Meyers about how they’ve supported each other’s writing careers, the work they do both locally and nationally to help others, and how staying true to your characters is the best policy when writing politically-charged fiction. Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out th

Josh Barkan on Writing the Political

Jan 23 2025 38 mins  
Today, we hear from Josh Barkan whose fiction and nonfiction skirts our most pressing political issues, either directly or indirectly, and his advice about how other writers might do the same.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.To find Barkan’s latest book a

Christine Murphy & Hilary Lahan on Writing Friendships

Jan 21 2025 31 mins  
Today, we get some hilarity (and good advice) from Hilary Isabelle Lahan and Christine Murphy about how the special nature of writing friendships and how to manage your own.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.To find their latest books here as well as many oth

Grace Talusan & Calvin Hennick on Making a Morning Writing Partnership

Jan 16 2025 25 mins  
Today, we hear from Grace Talusan and Calvin Hennick about how they made their unique writing partnership work.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.To find Talusan and Hennick’s debuts as well as many other books by our authors, visit our Bookshop page.Want t

Celeste Ng and Whitney Scharer on Getting Messy and Pursuing Joy

Jan 14 2025 31 mins  
Today, we hear from Whitney Scharer and Celeste Ng about their friendship, how they’ve supported each other through the years as writers, the work they do in their communities to support other writers and their careers, and how they plan to keep working in the new year. Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast ve

Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff on Compassion

Jan 09 2025 36 mins  
Today, we hear from writers and married couple Lori Ostlund and Anne Raeff and their work with the LGBTQI+ refugee organization, Rainbow Railroad, which also inspires their fiction and their writing process.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.To find Ostlund a

Embracing Delusions: Theresa Okokon on Sharing Her Story and Helping Others Do the Same

Jan 07 2025 33 mins  
Today, we hear from Theresa Okokon whose memoir in essays will be released on February 4. We talk about the power of delusions, controlling what your writing means to you, and letting go of the meaning others might try to assign to you. As Okokon says: “That’s not my problem.”Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the

We're Writing Together. Join us!

Jan 03 2025 1 mins  
This January on the 7am novelist we’re interviewing authors about how they’re sticking to their writing goals despite or maybe because of recent events and their thoughts not only about how other writers might do the same but also about how we might continue to affect change and support each other in both small and large ways.We’re also holding a large Group-Write for our lis

Use Your Words: A Virtual Workshop & A Vital Call to Action

Sep 24 2024 147 mins  
Tonight, Writers for Blue is offering a special opportunity to learn about writing your first pages. We’ll have four award-winning authors, including myself, Aaron Hamburger, Nancy Johnson, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jayne Anne Phillips, workshopping seven first-page writing submissions in support of electing Kamala Harris, our first female president—and our 47th. We’ll also h