Today, I'm so excited to talk to my friend, Rosa Kwon Easton, about her debut novel, White Mulberry.

Rosa holds a very special place in my heart and my history because she was at the first ever workshop where I taught my Blueprint framework, which is a method of inquiry for getting a book out of your head and onto the page before you start to write. At that time, Rosa thought that she was writing a true story about three generations in her family. She was calling it a memoir. And now ten years later, that story is being published as a novel. In this discussion, we talk about that long development process and the profound switch from writing a true story to writing fiction and how Rosa navigated the whole thing.Find Rosa at: rosakwoneaston.com, @rosakwoneaston on Instagram, or at one of her upcoming events.

Find out more about Jennie Nash’s Blueprint for a Book method here.

Announcing the #AmWriting Blueprint Winter Challenge—bigger and better and more interactive than any we’ve done before.

The Blueprint method will be effective for you if:

* You have a new idea for a novel, a memoir, or a nonfiction book you want to pin to the page.

* You are stuck somewhere in the middle of a novel, a memoir, or a nonfiction book and can’t figure out how to get unstuck.

* You are planning to revise a novel, a memoir, or a nonfiction book and feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.

In the challenge you’ll get 10 podcast episodes on the Blueprint steps, five Author Accelerator certified book coaches who will be answering your questions in live sessions and in our chat for 10 weeks (+ your hosts will be joining in on that, too), write-along sessions, a workbook to guide you, free digital downloads of Jennie’s Blueprint book, and the chance to win a full Blueprint review from Jennie or KJ at the end.

#AmWriting paid subscribers have the chance to sign up for all this NOW—and to help you out, we’re offering a December sale on membership. The offer will end 12/31/24—so give 2025 you a gift and sign up now!

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