#AmWriting

KJ DellAntonia, Jess Lahey, Sarina Bowen, Jennie Nash

amwriting@substack.com

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Booking Overview

A writing-focused show where the hosts coach and unpack how to finish and strengthen books using a repeatable framework. It’s particularly useful for authors and publishing professionals looking for practical craft guidance and real-world writing-to-publication stories.

Metrics

Episodes: 531

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

KJ DellAntonia - Host of #AmWriting.

Jess Lahey - Host of #AmWriting.

Sarina Bowen - Host of #AmWriting.

Jennie Nash - Hosts #AmWriting and interviews writers; in recent episodes she runs the Blueprint Summer Challenge and introduces hot-seat coaching segments, including live coaching sessions mentioned as part of ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Published or actively publishing authors (often YA/middle grade or genre-crossing writers) who have used the show’s Blueprint framework or comparable manuscript development/coaching approach; those with a concrete transformation story (e.g., revision breakthrough leading to submission/sale).
Required Achievements:  
Book sale or successful agent submission, Completion/revision of a manuscript using a structured framework, Prior participation in a Blueprint Challenge or related program, Published work (picture-book nonfiction, middle grade, memoir, or fiction)

Recent Guest Discussions

Meghan P. Browne - Using The Blueprint Framework To Revise, Developing Plot/scene-to-emotional Meaning Links, Receiving And Absorbing Feedback, And Moving From Manuscript Development To Agent Submission And Sale.

Recent Topics

Writing Craft, Publishing, Manuscript, Revision, Children's Books

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
#AmWriting
:

Write Big: People Are a Good Use of Time

July 10, 2026

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Live with Jennie Nash

July 06, 2026

Join the Blueprint Summer ChallengeStarting a book? Stuck in a draft? Planning a revision?The Blueprint Summer Challenge is designed to help you make meaningful progress on your manuscript this summer.Over six weeks, beginning July 10, you’ll use the Blueprint—a proven framework for developing stronger books with greater clarity, purpose, and reader impact—to move your project forward, wherever you are in the process.Whether you’re writing nonfiction, memoir, fiction, or another genre entirel...

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...

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