THE 7AM NOVELIST
SUMMER ’24 RELEASE SCHEDULE
All episodes will be released at 7am EST and can be found on 7amnovelist.substack.com and your favorite podcast platforms. Schedule is subject to change.
Want to join the podcast? Come together with other listeners in a deep dive into this summer’s episodes, discussing ideas, asking questions, and sharing your experiences about issues brought up in our interviews. Perfect for writers at every level. Only a few spots available. Email 7amnovelist@substack.com for more info.
April 2: SNEAK PEEK! Samantha Harvey on Rediscovering Your Structure and Point of View (even after several drafts)
June 3: Sara Shukla on Using Humor as a Survival Mechanism When Launching a Book During a Time of Loss
June 5: Adam White on Inserting Your DNA into Your Book’s Point of View
June 7: Dawn Tripp on Voice, Emotion, and Interiority
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June 10: Desmond Hall on Managing Dramatic Irony While Writing Multiple Points of View
June 12: Maria Hummel on Rewriting Existing Stories and Models
June 14: BONUS: Listener Round-Up 1
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June 17: Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Higher Truths of Dialogue
June 19: Kasey LeBlanc on Pacing Dual Narratives
June 21: Patricia Park on Navigating Taste (Food, Books, and Otherwise)
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June 24: Henriette Lazaridis on Tackling the Omniscient Point of View
June 26: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Writing Politically Charged Topics
June 28: The Page Six Writing Group with Jean Duffy, Bev Stohl, and Laura Beretsky
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July 1: Shalene Gupta on Writing and Conducting Interviews on Highly Personal Material
July 3: Steve Almond on Avoiding Writer’s Block by Chasing the Inner Life
July 5: BONUS: Listener Round-Up 2
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July 8: Sarah Tomlinson on Writing Red Herrings in a Character-Driven Novel
July 10: Annie Weatherwax on Writing with Dyslexia and the Art of Seeing
July 12: Jennine Capo Crucet on Voice That Originates in a Sense of Place
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July 15: Bryan VanDyke on Coping Mechanisms for the “Too Quiet” Writer
July 17: Colwill Brown on the Art of the Sentence
July 19: BONUS: Listener Round-Up 3
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July 22: Alison Langley Has Some Questions for Us: On Specificity, Summary, and Surviving Your Readers' Assumptions
July 24: Marjan Kamali on Handling the Passage of Time
July 26: Laura van den Berg
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July 29: Joseph Moldover
July 31: Kate Woodworth on Handling an Island’s Worth of Points of View
August 2: BONUS: Listener Round-Up 4
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August 5: Therese Chehade on Truth in History Fiction
August 7: Shi Naseer on Keeping the Reader Engaged in Multiple Timelines
August 9: Mark Cecil on Letting Your Secondary Characters Speak
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August 12: Hesse Phillips on Challenges in Writing Queer History
August 14: Femi Kayode on the Rules of Engagement When Writing a Sequel
August 16: BONUS: Listener Round-Up 5
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August 19: Pagan Kennedy on Writing Nonfiction During Years of Disruption
August 21: Crystal King
August 23: Ann Hood
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August 26: Jamie Quatro on Experimenting with Form
August 28: RO Kwon on Struggling with Writing-Related Anxiety
August 30: BONUS: Listener Round-Up 6
What a packed and amazing lineup! 🙌 Looking forward to every single episode
So much to look forward to!