#AmWriting

The burn chart mindset, whole book project management, and a how-to for finding a progress tracker that works for you.

Writing through chronic illness and other challenges, with Karen Locke Kolp.

Funny thing—writers for popular pubs tend to see literary magazines as an unsurmountable challenge (I know I do) and vice versa. Danielle Ofri, though, straddles both worlds as the Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review and a regular contributor to the New York Times and Slate as well as journals like The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, making her the perfect person to talk to about that crossover, as well as the crossover between a career with confidentiality at its core, and one where telling the whole truth is key. 

#AmReading (Watching, Listening)

Danielle: Ragtime E.L. Doctorow and Little King, Salmon Rushdie's short story excerpt in the New Yorker from his book, Quichotte.

KJ: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport

#FaveIndieBookstore

The Strand again! We don't mind repeating a good one.

Our guest for this episode is Danielle Ofri, the author of What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear; Singular Intimacies ; Incidental Findings;  Medicine in Translation; Intensive Care; What Doctors Feel;Best of the Bellevue Literary Reviewand the forthcoming When We Do Harm, a Doctor Confronts Medical Error.

She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, a journal that explores issues of health and humanity. fiction and non-fiction and poetry. Find their submission guidelines here. Find out more about at Danielle at DanielleOfri.com, and Listen to her TEDMed Talk: Deconstructing Perfection, here. You can listen to her TEDMed talk Fear: A Necessary Emotion here.

This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingfor details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s Inside-Outline template.

Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.

If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.

Big dreams, and how to achieve them. (Jess likes to be told she can do it. KJ prefers to be told she can't.)

#AmReading (and watching) 

Other People's Houses, Abbi Waxman

Jess: The Butterfly Girl: A Novel, Rene Denfeld

A Discovery of Witches (book one of the All Souls Trilogy), Deborah Harkness 

 (and the miniseries)

#FaveIndieBookstore

Northshire Books, Manchester VT and Saratoga Springs

This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s 2-tier outline template.

Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.

If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.

The risks and benefits of writing about religion in any genre, with author Phoebe Farag Mikhail.

Phoebe's publisher: Paraclete Press

A few other notes from the episode: 

Phoebe's book: Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church https://paracletepress.com/collections/new-releases/products/putting-joy-into-practice

Phoebe's blog: Being in Community (beingincommunity.com)

Instagram & Twitter: @pkfarag   
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phoebefaragmikhailauthor/  andhttps://www.facebook.com/beingincommunity/

Phoeble also mentioned her essay in Talking Writing Magazine about "bridge people":https://talkingwriting.com/agreeing-other-side-can-be-revolutionary

She chronicled her path to writing after becoming a mom in this essay as well: http://redtri.com/having-children-was-the-best-thing-i-did-for-my-career/

#AmReading

KJ: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Sendhil Mullainathan

Phoebe: The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction, Meghan Cox Gurdon

The Strand, New York, NY

This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s 2-tier outline template.

COME RETREAT WITH KJ AND SARINA! Details here

Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.

If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.

Tracking your why, your how, your money and your time with Katherine Reynolds Lewis.

A few assorted links, comments and tools

Toggl time tracker 

The 3Ps: Pay, Prestige and Personal Passion

Katherine's Excel Spreadsheet:

Katherine's Press Club slide show and her checklist for new clients.

#AmReading:

KJ: City of Girls: A Novel, Elizabeth Gilbert

Katherine: Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond - And How Parents Can Help, Phyllis Fagell

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips, Miriam Peskowitz

Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel, Jean Kwok

#FaveIndieBookstore(s):

Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C.

East City Bookshop, Washington, D.C.

Solid State Books, Washington, D.C.

Bard's Alley, Vienna, VA

Katherine:

KatherineRLewis.com 

Twitter

Instagram 

Facebook

This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s 2-tier outline template.

Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.

If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.

Jess is going gangbusters on her summer writing, and KJ may be struggling, but they’re both plowing through some serious recs for  your summer reading list from them and from members of the #AmWriting Facebook group.

#AmReading

KJ:

Rules for Visiting: A Novel, Jessica Francis Kane

Honestly We Meant Well: A Novel, Grant Ginder

What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw, Leah Stewart

The Gifted School: A Novel, Bruce Holsinger

City of Girls: A Novel, Elizabeth Gilbert

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein

The Sentence is Death: A Novel, Anthony Horowitz

Bowling Avenue, Ann Shayne

The Library of Lost and Found, Phaedra Patrick

Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse, Ben Schott

There's a Word for That, Sloane Tanen

Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett

The Bride Test, Helen Hoang

Everything Is Just Fine, Brett Paesel

The Late Bloomers' Club: A Novel, Louise Miller

After the End, Clare Mackintosh

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, Mary Laura Philpott

Happy Campers: 9 Summer Camp Secrets for Raising Kids Who Become Thriving Adults, Audrey Monke

Jess:

Top Secret, Sarina Bowen

Raising a Screen Smart Kid: Embrace the Good and Avoid the Bad in the Digital Age, Julianna Miner

Basketball Junkie: A Memoir, Chris Herren

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race, Lara Prior-Palmer

The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time, Nancy Davis Kho

Stoney the Pony's Most Inspiring Year: Teaching Children About Addiction Through Metaphor, Linda Myers

Everything Is Just Fine, Brett Paesel 

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan

#FaveIndieBookstore

Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA

This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s 2-tier outline template.

Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.

If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.

As the wheel of fortune spins, Jess gives us the blow by blow of this week’s celebrity endorsement - spoiler alert...it wasn’t entirely luck! When someone with 10 million followers on Instagram shares a pic of herself reading your book—things happen. And they happened for Jess. But there's a little secret history there. Sure, lightning struck, the stars aligned and everything fell together. But if Jess hadn't done the groundwork, it probably never would have happened.

#AmReading

Jess: Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak, @indyfromspace www.sarahparcak.com

KJ: City of Girls, Elizabeth Glibert

The Vermont Bookstore in MIddlebury Vermont

Book Coach Jennie Nash returns to tackle some effective strategies for revising; it can be a tortuous process, but it can also be where some of the fun happens!

Jennie mentioned Susan Bell's The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself.

#AmReading

KJ: Bowling Avenue, Ann Shayne

Jess: In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids, Travis Rieder and Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston

Jennie: Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

#FaveIndieBookstore

Chaucer's Bookstore, Santa Barbara 

This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwriting for details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s 2-tier outline template.

Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.

If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.

Tips for getting the work done when the season shifts around you.