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Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 529
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Female
Location: USA
Contact Information
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Host
KJ DellAntonia - Co-host of #AmWriting, which helps writers play big in their writing life and finish work that matters.
Jess Lahey - Co-host of #AmWriting, offering hard-won advice and inspiration to help writers finish meaningful work.
Sarina Bowen - Co-host of #AmWriting, a podcast/group that provides advice and inspiration for writers.
Jennie Nash - Co-host of #AmWriting and leads segments including hot-seat coaching and conversations that help writers clarify, draft, revise, and finish publishable work.
Booking Intelligence
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Recent Guest Discussions
Brenna Humphries - Nonfiction Proposal Clarity, Voice, Marketability; Shifting Positioning To Reduce Legal/traditional Publishing Risks; Reframing Medical-adjacent Content As Lived-experience-driven Guidance
Dr. Diana Hill - Self-worth And Proving Behaviors For Writers; Rebranding; Psychology Of Authenticity And Connection; Using Specific User-centered Language
Andrew Parrella - Thriller Outlining And Revision; Escalation And Clue/red-herring Design; Character Motivation/agency; Integrating A New Opening Murder; Maintaining An Outline As A Living Document
Samantha Skal - Prior Guidance Referenced About Thriller Outlining; Antagonist Motivation And Structure Work Built On Earlier Guidance
Recent Topics
Episodes
Revising with the Blueprint: A Summer Challenge Success Story
July 03, 2026
Jennie Nash interviews author Meghan P. Browne about her journey from picture-book nonfiction to selling her first middle-grade novel, after participating in the 2022 Blueprint Challenge. Browne began the project in 2019, drafted it during her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, then used the Blueprint framework to “reverse engineer” the manuscript and discover it lacked plot; the inside outline helped her connect scene events to emotional meaning. After tragedy and other commitments, she re...
Hot Seat Coaching: Pressure-Testing a Story Engine with Two Villains
June 26, 2026
Jennie Nash introduces a hot seat coaching episode where Author Accelerator coaches Stuart and Margaret work through Margaret’s new Blueprint for a historical novel set in Florence in the 1400s. Stuart helps Margaret pressure-test the story engine by differentiating two opposing forces—an Alchemist experimenting with mercury-based syphilis treatments and Savonarola (whom Stuart nicknames “Rolly”), who seeks to purge Florence to save souls—clarifying how each tempts protagonist Eliana. They ex...
Hot Seat Coaching: Reframing a Prostate Cancer Book for Clarity, Voice, and Marketability
June 19, 2026
In a hot seat coaching session on the #amwriting podcast, Jennie Nash coaches Brenna Humphries on a nonfiction proposal for Where It Hurts: A Couple’s Guide to Kicking Prostate Cancer, noting a disconnect between the proposal’s tone/claims and the sample chapters. They discuss how “salesy” positioning and language that can read as antagonistic toward the medical system may create legal and traditional publishing risks, especially when offering what could be construed as medical advice. Nash s...
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